By: Softbean
A website's success is very much dependent on web pages you design. It's been seen that beginners are not much successful first time when it comes to website designing. New enthusiastic website designers generally design poor web pages and thinks they have done a good job. Just thinking those pages are ready to upload doesn’t make so. The reason they think they have done a good job generally because they are the one who have design that stuff, In most cases- ‘first time’. Like all areas of expertise, designing a webpage also requires a fair amount of practice. So guys never under estimate the power of practice, it does make perfect and the more time you design you will get better and better on your craft.
We are not trying to discourage you but it’s almost impossible to design a perfect website on your first attempt. Actually you can expect this miracle only if you are a very good observer and ready to follow the same path of experts. Of course, there are other ways to achieve this. Say, by using a user friendly templates or getting an experts help.
You can’t ignore this-Even by reading this article! It would not be a bad idea to follow our tips and advices to achieve great results while designing your web page
If you are from the group of people who still thinks more graphics and more colours will make a great website, we would like to discourage you. In a standard style of designing that would be a completely wrong advice for anyone. Please understand the value of space. When it comes to designing a web page, less is always better. Stay away from adding lot of strange fonts and thousands of colours; that will put your visitors off and will also give jarring effect on eyes. Think how much loading time it will increase for your web page. A general observation says that most people get distracted and bored after 10 seconds of uploading. Most people hate to wait and get impatient very easily.
Think about the most popular websites for a second. Take Google for an example. It has more plain background than any other website; still it is the most popular search engine in the world. Now take a look at its features:
• lots of empty space (white space)
• a beautiful logo
• few links in blue
• And a search box
That’s it! More people will agree on point of simplicity when it comes to design better web pages. We can give plenty of examples for this. eBay, hotornot.com and papal are just some of these websites following the same path.
Some thorough tips for making great looking WebPages:
• Using more frames and background music is never a good idea, follow the same rule when it comes to colour.
• Layout lines are desirable to be simple.
• Font colours should not exceed more than two or three max. Any kind of overuse is a strict no-no.
• Flaming taxes, animated GIF images will kill the beauty of your webpage.
• Be sensible while you apply a contrast between webpage background and colour of the text and vise versa.
• Deciding about the font size? Don’t overlook the thumb rule of balance, too big or too small fonts will not do any good to your website.
• Verdana and Arial are the widely used fonts because they look just right on your computer screen.
• Making very wide website is a mistake you should not do. Better test it on multiple sized screens and even on several screen resolutions
Keep the above points in mind while you are designing your webpage, remember that great design is not much better than better design but it’s always good to aim for better design because it is better than the average one. Don't forget, webpage designing is important but not more than content. It’s content of your website that is making your website famous and successful.
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