By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2010-06-05 03:42:17 | Word Count: 447
To guarantee online success of your website, there are few basic methods to be followed in website design. Able to have positive impact on the targeted traffic is just half work done through proper website design. The other half is all about what is the quality of products and services offered to the clients. Below are few tips for web design that may be of some value to web developers.
• Behind the web design there is always some objective or intent or goal. Having complete understanding of business goals is must before starting web development. If the objective is to have an Ecommerce website, then all the ecommerce web design aspects should be concentrated on selling products.
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• Deciding and understanding the targeted audience of your website is also very important. This helps in incorporating plans in initial web design process on how to attract them. Website design pattern is also influenced by target audience age, group, interests, religion and geographical location.
• A website designer should be asked to make sitemap that would show the structure of the website being built. It can become complex or simple based on website needs.
• No user would be interested in a website that takes lot of time to load. Web designers should take care in web development stage that the website loading time is less than fifteen seconds. Unless the response time of the website is fast and quick, it does not matter even if you have best website design. Quick response time ensures better user interactive experience and thus is necessity.
• Web designers should also concentrate on placing navigation links at strategic locations on the pages for easy making it is easy for clients to go through website. Important hyperlinks should be highlighted. Normally links are placed on top of the page. Menu is usually at left of the web pages.
• Once the basic model of web design is ready, it should be converted into web templates. These templates should be viewable on browsers. Having this mock model can often give clear picture of how the fully built functional website would look like.
• Testing the prototype of website is must before it is hosted online. Testing should be carried out keeping in mind the international and well accept web development standards.
Above are just few basic tips and do no form complete set of website design practices. There are many methods and techniques that professional web developers use. But these should be enough for a novice web designer.
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