Things You Need To Avoid In A Web Design   by John K. Taylor

in Marketing / Web Marketing    (submitted 2012-01-27)

For a business to grow and establish itself as a pioneer in the current market scenario is not easy, especially if you are into online business. Still there are many brands that have become a household name. What could be reason for their grand success? Their websites must be containing something that other websites overlook. Let us contemplate the matter.

A website represents business, which is meant to provide information of the brand, its products and services. However, many companies fail to understand this primary requirement of the web users and stuff their website with unnecessary designs. Consequently, they could not achieve market presence. Hence, you need to design your website taking all the factors in account. Below are few of them:

Quick loading websites: This is the top tip that all web designers must follow. Ideally, your website must not take more than 15 seconds to load; else you will lose your viewers. Remember that no matter how well is your website designed, no would watch it if it takes longer time to load. Your aim should to be to make your web design to be optimized for the web.

Easy navigation: Fetching viewers to your website is not enough. You need to make them go all through your web pages. For this, keep all your important links at the top, preferably at the right side of the page, because this is the corner where mostly users look at. Create menus both at the left and right side of the top of the page. Also, try to link maximum pages so that each page can be accessed from all the corners of the site.

Maximum uses of white space: Avoid cluttering your page with unnecessary images, graphics, backgrounds and colorful texts. Keep your web design as simple as possible by maximizing the use of white space. By increasing the uses of white space, you would be able to make it look spacious and neat. Whereas, too many graphics distracts the user from main content and leave them annoyed.

Check for browser compatibility: If your website is looking and running well on Internet Explorer, need not necessary to run well on other browsers. Hence, ensure that your website is browser compatible and looks good on all browsers. At times Netscape troubles, especially when you experiment your web design with complicated HTML codes. However, you can fix these problems with little patience. In fact, you need to, because you never know that which of the browsers your prospective customers will be using.

About the Author

This article is shared by John K. Taylor on behalf of Infinite IT Solutions. In this article writer share information about what steps should have to be taken by web designers when designing a web page. Infinite IT Solutions is a Website Design Company in Melbourne offering web development, online marketing, graphic design and SEO services in Melbourne to their clients.