Sunday, October 31, 2010

What Aspects Make A Professional Website

By Aya Wilkinson

Every recognized body, every association, almost every actor has a website. Because Web designing is probably the most widely employed designing around in the world and every site has numerous web pages. In 2009, in the world there are more than 233 million websites people uses. What is the total number of web pages? You do the maths! Statistics say that if you click on a web page each second of the day, it would take us 99 years to complete the internet. Add to that the thousands of pages getting created each day! Staggering numbers aren't they?

For example you think you have own website and then How can you develop your site stand out among the multitudes of websites available online? What aspects make a professional website? What makes it special? What makes it different from the masses of websites on the internet created by amateurs?

Firstly the most important aspect is the appearance of the website. When we speak of appearance it mostly involves two things.

In most cases the background and text are in contrasting colors, which allows a person to easily read the text on the website. One of them is a combination of colors. Many colors to the web site attractive and people with sight problems can also access web sites; too many colors can be a strain on your eyes. Professional designers usually come in three main colors and different shades. Also the color scheme should be made so that the main content of the website stands out and is unreadable. While the coloration of the website is simple and attractive web page text is highlighted and can be read easily without effort. After all the reason to create a website is that people will read it! For example, Yahoo's popular web site used for the white background for the logo purple and black for text.

Another thing you need to keep in mind is that the images or the graphics on the webpage must be closely related to the content of the webpage. Pictures which are out of context can mislead the user and that is something no professional website owner would like. Also it is something that would reflect badly on the web designers.

The other is navigation. Navigation means - your guide to move from one place to another, in this case it refers to the links on your webpage to move through your website! Navigation needs to be simple, links must stand out on your webpage and it must not take more than 3-4 links for a person to reach a destination. Most commonly one page called the home page has the links to almost all parts of the content on a website. This makes the navigation much easier. Let's consider the same example again. Yahoo's homepage has the links to all the content on the website - mail, games, messenger, movies, music and so on.

In other words the difference between a professional web designer and an amateur is that a professional web designer keeps it simple and easy.

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