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1. 7 Golden rules to designing a high quality web site

   Kabila on June 1st, 2009

   Tags: Golden rule to design site, High quality web site, web site design

   Your website is your identity in the net world, through which you can promote your products or ideas. It may be a personal or a commercial website, but whatever it is, it should be effective enough to reach the right kind of people so you can achieve your purpose.

   Here we have listed seven golden rules that are to be kept in mind while designing your website. These will help you build a good quality website.

   Content
   “Content is the King”. Visitors will land on your page either through search engines or back links. Once they visit your page, they will look for information. If they don’t find what they are looking for, they will simply leave your site. A high quality website must be informative, and help visitors obtain the information they are looking for. So make sure the content on your site is accurate and adequate.

   User-friendly Navigation
   Offer menus and sitemap to help visitors browse relevant information and navigate to desired sections of the site easily. Also provide breadcrumb which lists the path of screens that a user has visited, at the top frame of a page to help them find out where they are now and navigate to previous pages easily.

   Appearance
   Use a professional, appealing and relevant style in your site throughout, to show consistency. Choose appropriate colors for your site that don’t clash. Also make sure you pick colours based on your intended audience. If the intended audience is that of children, use bright, attractive colors. If it is for professionals, use mild, pastel colors. Make sure that the text and background colors contrast and that the text is readable.

   Quick download
   Studies have revealed that site download time should be less than 15 seconds, or you will lose visitors. So avoid large images and animations on your site, as they take too much time to download. It would be best to use photos of .JPEG format and graphics of .GIF format.

   To be avoided
   Avoid using Pop-ups they annoy users and some browsers might block pop-ups. Do not use splash page which is a special entrance page to a site. Splash page are often filled with graphics and little text content, so they are not beneficial to search engine rankings and internet users.

   Test your site
   Ask a third person to check for spelling and grammatical errors on your site. After building your site, test it in different browsers as people may use different browsers. Also check for broken links and missing images on your site, and correct them before launching.

   Visibility
   Just building a site is not enough, you have to promote it both online and offline to divert people to it.

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One Response to “7 Golden rules to designing a high quality web site”

1. John Timber says:

   June 1, 2009 at 12:31 pm

   Nice overview of some basic website building guidelines. I think the matter of color is oversimplified a bit, but your point is well-taken.

   If everyone followed these recommendations, the web would be a much prettier place, I’m sure.

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