subject: Looking at your website [print this page] The website designed by me looks fine but it would be faulty in the eyes of the visitors and the search engines. A checklist is there to check out the ways to optimize the website for great performance. First of all it is browser compatibility, which can be judges by looking at your website through other people's browsers. This is just to check that whether your website is compatible for other web browsers as well. Approximately 5% of all the links on the internet are broken, a site having broken links gives bad impression to the visitors and thus leads to frequent lost of sales. Even the major search engines and directories would not list your page if it contains broken links. In website design, the designer should use web safe colors for the website, so that they look properly on other people's browser. There are 216 colors that are safely visible on the web. These colors view solid and consistent on the screen or web browser which displays at least 8 bit color. Today the trend has been changed; web safe palette contains 6 groups of colors containing 36 per group. Thus these 216 colors can have any combination of RGB values each one should be divisible by 51.
Alt tags should be there in the web design as they give an alternative to the people who have the view image' option turned off in their computer or browser. The navigation system on your website is actually the series of buttons that link to the other pages on your site. If the images do not have alt tag, then people who have the view image' function turned off will not be able to navigate through your site, because in the place of the button they would just see blank space on the page. ALT tags allow raising the density of the keywords. META tags are really important for website designing process; they include title tag, keyword tag and description tag. The title tags should not be more than 64 words, keyword tags should not exceed from 5 to 10 keywords and description tag should not be more than 200 characters. The high loading time of the index page is one of the main reasons for lost sales, as maximum loading time for the website is around 12 to 15 seconds, after that the visitors do not wait for long and switch over to some other search result.
