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Few
Qualities of Highly Effective Web Designer
A highly effective website will always reflect its highly
effective web designer. Throughout the years of doing a number
of websites, I've seen quite a few effective web designers
all over the web and I would like to share with you their
successes by exploring on this topic.
Be Consistent
Consistency simply means using a common style, design or theme
throughout your site. It will also mean optimising your website
because all the elements are already in memory so the next
time another page loads, it will be faster. Common Elements
consists of font usage; logos and icons; headers; footers
and backgrounds; and the like.
Keep Your Site Fresh
Fresh and new contents welcomes and attracts new visitors
so work hard on your website.
Structure Your Site For Clarity and Efficiency
Consider the following, when you structure your site:
* If you sell products/services, always have a link to a single
structure of product or service descriptions from the home
page.
* Always have a button or navigation toolbar that allows visitors
to at least return to your home page.
* Most website benefits from a starting page consisting of
a simple logo of banner, and then a set of links to a more
specific pages. This type of page loads quickly and doesn't
make any assumptions about what the user wants to see, and
* Include a toolbar of links to major subjects or your site,
such as your starting page, products, customer support and
organizational information.
Work Efficiently with automated content tools
There are lots of web authoring tools out there that automatically
creates banners, headers, menus, footers, and even categorized
a certain website into themes. It will save you a lot of trouble
(not to mention headaches) if you use these tools.
Optimize Content
Try to view your website using a slow modem, a low resolution
monitor and an older version of different browsers. In this
way, you can cater to different types of visitors and this
one is usually called "graceful degradation." You
might as well provide text-only pages for simplier or lower-speed
browsers.
Post changes in batches so your website remains consistent
I may not be able to change theme of my site as a whole frequently
but I can do it in groups. In this way your website will appear
to be evolving to a better "creature."
It's a Web Wide World: Internationalize
Here's how to do it:
* Use graphically obvious buttons rather than words for links.
* Provide pictures of products and operational diagrams along
with descriptions.
* Use technical language rather than "flowery" ad
copy, since technical language is more universal.
* Survey other members of your organization for language skills
and seek their help and,
* When international users complain that you don't have a
site in their language, enlist their support in translating
it if they are bilingual.
Web Design Temple is a web
designing company which specializes in designing websites
that rank higher on search engines and brings more business
for you.
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