Since website design is an ever-evolving field, chances are that you might have missed out some common tips that would have otherwise proved extremely effective to ease up your workload. Though hundred of articles are there, featuring wide variety of website design tips, tricks etc, not all of them are of great quality and majority of them are the products of mindless repetition. Here in this article, we have tried to compile a list of some common website design tips that might help you to cruise through the initial stages of website design and development:

1. Before making your website live, you need to make sure that your website is running fine with or without WWW. You can always make 301 redirection to resolve this issue.
2. Reserve a subdomain for your website mobile version so that you would not have to face any uncompromising situation later.
3. Try not to use dashes in the domain names. However, if the preferred domain has always been registered, you are open to use hypen in the domain name.
4. Perfection is a happy blur in the design industry. Try to comprehend the simple fact that you cannot have a pixel perfect design. After all nobody is perfect in the mundane world.
5. Try to keep the required information in the sign up page of your website to a minimum since people will not care a fig to get registered if you badger their lives with so many questions.
6. Try to reduce size of the files as far as possible as file size has a direct impact on the page responsive time.
7. While designing mobile version of your website, you need to keep it as simple as possible. Do not use flash since iDevices do not offer any support for flash based sites.
8. Try to use CSS and place the codes in a separate CSS file. Do not use inline CSS since it will add to the complexity of your website.
9. Gather as much information about color combination as possible. Master the art of using colors and contrasts to give your website a brand new look.
10. Use only web safer colors as it will help you to make your website readable. Just having a good design is not enough; you need to ensure visibility of the texts at any cost.
11. Try to shun unwanted complexities while organizing the navigation structure of your website.

Just like we try to communicate with our viewers and audience through pictures, different layouts and words, we use a website for similar kind of purpose. A company’s aim is always to reach to its target audience through a website. Since one of the basic objectives of the websites is communication, you need to make it really attractive and appealing to the visitors.

The web designer is often considered as a communicator. It is his responsibility to represent a website in a proper way on the web front. The web pages are also meant to provide information to the online visitors. With proper marketing skills these information are to be sold to gain popularity for one’s business. Continue reading ‘Improve Your Web Design with Essential Tips’ »