Professional Website Design Tips

Web design is the skill of creating and presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by the way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software.

You can see large number of website floating in the search engines. But you will be surprised to see that only few of them pass the litmus test, when you measure them on the professional scale. Website should be structured in such a way that it truly matches the customer expectation.

Listed below are some useful and rather important tips for professional web designing :

Neat and Easy Navigation:

Website Navigation plays a big role in determining, how long your visitor stays and explores your site. Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.

Clean Layout Design:

A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site’s looks. Try to focus on your content. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

Avoid Large Images:

Don’t use large images in website design, this will unnecessary increased the loading times. So visitor will always try to avoid your site which takes longer time to load…

Optimum Loading Time: Make sure your website loading time is low. For this you must:

Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts because they hugely increase your loading time. Optimize your HTML & script code to make sure that your site doesn’t have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.

Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

Size of the code should be reduced, this can be achieved by removing the spaces, unnecessary tags and even white space. This will enhance the browsing speed which gives positive impact on the mind of the user

Image Compression:

 This is the technique by which designer can reduced the image size. Since the size is reduced, loading time declines automatically which motivate the user in positive altitude.

Color Combination:

 Colors of the website should be decided in such a way that it matches the viewers expectation

Design for all Screen Resolutions:

Suppose your website doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. All ways try to design stretch layoutsfor websites that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional website.

Cross Browser Compatible:

Make sure you check your website for Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla Firefox 3+, Opera 7+ and Safari 3+ as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.

Designers should try to follow the above professional website design techniques. This will enhance their potential and make their work search engine friendly.

Designers at Bitwords media (New york web design company) take care almost all of these tips while designing custom web design for its clients…