Website Design

Good Design Is Essential

You have to remember that the choices are all yours, because it's your site, and you have to decide what you like. Choices like which colors, styles, fonts, graphics and writing styles to use are all very personal choices and not to be made lightly. What you say and do on your Web site says a lot about who you are. Here are some of the basics you need to consider when designing your site.

• Navigation
  Easy to use navigation is essential to a good website. If people can't find what's on your site, well, they just won't stick around, will they?

• Things That Blink
  Blinking can be annoying and you don't want to annoy your readers.

• Graphics
  Graphics a an important part of a website. They add color, attitude, theme. They're necessary, right? Right, as long as you don't over do it. Too many graphics not only make your site upload really slow but it also makes it look like a kid scribbled on your page.

• Color
  We all know that reading black and white pages is boring. That's why we add color to them. Adding the right colors to your pages makes for great, easy to read pages. You have to make sure that the background colors don't conflict with the text colors. If you use loud colors or colors that conflict, people won't want to read your page and will look elsewhere.

• Fonts
  You don't have to use the same old boring, standard font for your text if you don't want to. There are many other's that you can use to make your writing look fancier or just better.

• Layout
  How do you want your page to look? Do you want all the text to the right and graphics on the left, or visa versa? Having the layout of all your pages look the same looks better to your readers than if you have the layout for every page different. That doesn't mean that you can't make each page different to go along with what you wrote on that page it just means that the basic layout should be at least similar.

• Content
  What is your site going to be about? What kinds of things are you going to write about? Of course, this is completely up to you. Whenever you write something make sure you spell check it and re-read it to make sure there are not grammatical errors.