subject: Some Information About Website Design [print this page] In the first glance designing website may look a difficult task but with the right knowledge and a bit of imagination it can be done gracefully. Now a day, to start an online business, having a website is must and if you are thinking the same you should begin building one right now. But one thing should be remembered before starting is you need to build it for your customer. So don"t just do it in your way, build it the way people want it to be. If you search for a certain keyword in the search result you might find some websites which are related to that keyword and you would find a similarity between all the websites, a similar pattern is followed. Because of this the websites came first in the search result. Now let"s try to follow the important contents of a successful website.
Information that is necessary for your website
"The visual spots- if you are looking at a book you always look at the book from its top left side at first and then you work to top right side of the page before looking in anywhere else. The same thing is applied for a website also. You must utilize those portions of the website as your visual spots to make it work.
"Above the fold- if you are new in this task you might not know that all areas of your website don"t have same weight. You need to understand what area is the most crucial one which people see first and see often. In this area one doesn"t have to scroll down to see the data. This area or page is called above the fold. So it is very important what you are putting in. for example you can put your logo and navigation bar in it (those should be in every page of your website). This will give your visitor an easy navigation between pages. For business point of view it is very crucial to be a successful website.
Color and font
"Font is a typeface in a specific point size and style. You should use most common fonts for your website like Times New Roman, Courier New, and Arial etc. don"t use very stylish fonts as they might make the text tuff to read and it might harm your business.
"Choose the color which is easiest to read. Don"t use flashy colors like yellow, pink, green and other outlandish colors.
Load time
Load time is the time taken by your website to load up fully. You ought to make
your website take very low load time. If it contains a lot of high def images, it would take more and more time. So use most necessary pictures. There is another trick to do that, keep your visitors at your URL.
Thumbnails
To cut down your website"s load time without compromising with your pictures, use thumbnails. It is a very tiny version of image and graphics specifically used for web pages. It can be loaded at once it is clicked in another window thus not adding extra time to load. So in a word, make a good, easy to serf and fast website and make your business bloom.