Website Design

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Websites designs are always changing and it can be difficult to keep up. Website designers must always keep up with the latest trendses and looks. You could think of website design like clothing facion were you must always have the best a newest things.

The unfornet thing is that the website owner begins to stop thinking of looks and begins think of other thing like content. Although the content is important design is is agreeable more important than one thinks. Lets quickly look at a typical user surfing the web and see what goes thorough the mind.

Jack is surfing the internet for new car. He searches for a red car and comes across site A. The description of the site looks good in his search engine so he clicks and goes to the site. He comes across a bleak white back page with some text and pictures. Even if the content the site is good the look feels unprofessional and outdated. Think of your website as your brick and morder store front. If the windows are dirty the sidewalk is full of leves and cob webs hang on the door the person will probably just move on.

Now jack counties his search and find another interesting site (B) description and clicks. He is presented with nice smooth red background and easy navigation. The site looks and feels professional and friendly. Jack will keep going through the site.

In the case of websites people do judge it by its cover. You can't be stuck in the 90's with a basic html page, things change just like everything else and if you want people to come in you must follow the trend.

If you search around the internet you are bound to find mind numming websites that make you want to step away. Alone the way I will give you a few examples of theses sites so you know what to stay...

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• Try not to add large items like large pictures. Large pictures taken right off of our camera can be nasty on the web. If you directly embed them with html of example they can take forever to load on slower connections. It is recommend that if you must have pictures either shrink them for the web, or place them in some sort of web service like Flicker and then embed the picture.

We have coved a lot but have not even touched the surface. There is a lot more to learn, but by keeping a few of these important items in mind when building a site you should be able to keep yourself out of trouble. Just rember a few things, just because you can does not mean you should, CSS is your friend, clean is happy, and big not always better. Just by using these tips you should have a nice easy to use site that does not bore.

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