Saturday, July 30, 2011

Designing Professional Looking Websites Shouldn't Be Rocket Science

By Arnulfo Militello


Any person who spends money with any business or salesperson will be influenced by the appearance of the business whether it is a corner shop offering groceries or a golf club offering golf lessonsand the same effect applies with your website design. There are no hard and fast template designs to use, but rather your site just needs to be professional looking and fit in well with whatever market you are in. So how do you really go about this whole process? There is too much to talk about everything, but we can explain how your sites can produce better responses from your visitors.

Graphics are Important: Don't let there be any sort of inconsistency in the graphics you post on your site; they need to all be defined and sized correctly. This way you'll optimize your site's design for the best performance, and make it stand out from the crowd. The fact is, webpages that contain the right kind of graphics, which are highly consistent, will allow them to load quicker. A good graphic setup will not just boost the look of your website, it helps it work perfectly in all of the browsers. Images that have been well sized reduce the workload of your web browser and makes the loading time better, this can work even for large images that have been well sized from golf course views at the Leadbetter Academy for instance.

If you have a header, and not all sites use one, but obviously you should include a home page link that is prominent.

You can see all kinds of examples of just about everything where people designed a site and then remembered they wanted to put content on it. Using flash on your site doesn't serve any big purpose, apart from making your site look cool - which sadly doesn't suffice. If you want to use Flash, then you have to think about the purpose of the site and who your audience is.

Check your site when all is said and done because you do not want to find glaring mistakes from your visitors. This applies whenever you make any changes to your site's design, because many times webmasters uploads some changes, while being confident in their abilities, they discover that while trying to fix one thing, they ended up having something else broken. Format breakdowns are somewhat common even for the most experienced web designers.

You really can make a pretty big difference with all your sites by adhering to solid website design guidelines. There really are no secrets with site design, so the information is readily available to you.




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