Designs That Work
Here's some tips that will help
keep all of
your website fun and trouble free.
1. Keep It Simple - The less complicated
your webpage is, the faster your page will download and
you'll have less cross browser problems to deal with.
Be careful using alot of images on one page. Each image
has to be optimized to obtain the smallest file size possible
and using several will generally result in an overall
lower quality of images because you have to optimize the
heck out of them to keep the total page file size low
enough to make sure the page doesn't bog down on at slower
access speed.
2. Templates - Template designed
layouts are a smart way to start out your website. The
advantages are overwhelming. The reasons for this are
covered in the 'Designs
That Don't Work - Non-Template Designs'.
3. Tables - Generally, the safest
website layout design you could use is the Table Layout.
There are no browser issues to deal with and no confusing
links connecting webpages together like in a frameset
layout. Search engine spiders can crawl a table layout
easier and this helps you when the little creatures make
their visit your website.
4. Javascripts - Javascripts are
really cool and how almost all the interactivity is accomplished.
However, using several javascripts on your page can slow
it down and add tons of code that will quickly push your
overall page file size past your limits. Several javascripts
on the same page can sometimes cause conflicts in that
page's performance.When javascrpt conflicts cause your
page to break it can become extremely complicated to diagnose.
Other than those concerns, javascripts are magic and can
make a website interesting and a lot of fun.
5. Text - Text is absoultely necessary
for a webpage to do well in search engine results. Search
engine spiders need something to 'index', the term used
when a search engine spider arrives at your page. When
spiders crawl you website they create an index of what's
on your page for future search queries by potential visitors.
Page text sould be kept to 200 to 500 words. If you are
exceeding the 500 word limit consider splitting up the
text and making 2 or 3 pages from it.
6. Images - A picture is worth a
thousand words. Adding an image logo to your page is a
great way to promote yourself and create interest in what
you are about. Images are the fastest way to convey to
your visitors what you want them to know and using image
links and image rollover buttons are very popular methods
of providing website navigation.
7. Animations - Website animation
is probably the hottest thing going on in website design.
Whether it's a very simple animation like this 'animated
graphic' ...
A Flash movie like this one of my
dog ...
Or a complete Flash website like
are available here at dirtcheapwebsites.com.
Movement is where it's at !!!
There's a treasure chest of possibilities
out there.
