» Archive for the ‘General Website Design Tips’ Category
30May Fact 7 about Web Design
Browser Compatibility
Since the Internet has continued to grow at an exponential rate, so have the Internet Browser brands, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Safari. While Internet Explorer remains the most popular, followed very closely by Firefox, there are well over a dozen different options out there that are being used by Internet visitors. [...]
30May Fact 6 about Web Design
Tableless CSS Markup
Web designers have traditionally relied heavily (or even exclusively) on the use of HTML tables to display their web designs on the Internet. However, tables present multiple issues on flexibility, interoperability, and most importantly accessibility. Tableless CSS markup is quickly becoming the standard in the web community, specially since it allows to separate [...]
30May Fact 5 about Web Design
W3C Compliance
XHTML 1.1 Transitional Compliance: XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML recommended by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). XHTML is the effective inheritor of HTML 4.01 and although it is almost identical to its predecessor it is aimed to replace it. W3C will not continue to develop HTML, future W3C work will [...]
30May Fact 4 about Web Design
Search Engine Optimization, SEO
Besides the issue of search engine visibility (covered above), good web design incorporates competitive and relevant keywords (what the users are typing into the search engines as “Web Design in Miami” in example above) within the text of the page, and ‘behind the scenes’, tucked away in what’s called the HTML Meta [...]
30May Fact 3 about Web Design
Usability and Accessibility - Section 508 Accessibility Law
Research shows that users do not read websites, they skim them. Your visitors will look around feverishly for anything that is interesting or resembles what they’re looking for. A good web designer knows this, so she places important information strategically throughout the website, makes good use of conventions [...]
30May Fact 2 about Web Design
Are the pages web optimized?
Statistics show that users will wait only 4 seconds to begin to see a page loading when they first visit a website; and only 20 seconds for the entire page to have downloaded in the screen. Any longer than that and they will hit the back button in the browser and [...]
30May Fact 1 about Web Design
Flush the flash intros and entirely flash-based websites!
True, flash animations can be beautiful to look at, they are edgy, trendy and in general plain cool. Unfortunately, the search engines like Google or Yahoo cannot see any of it. It is not even that they may take too long to load and the search engine’s crawler [...]
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06Aug How to Design a Successful and Useful Website
Avoid Putting Employee Information on Your Public Website
Focusing your public website on information for the public – not on information specific to your company’s employees – is a best practice for managing your company’s website. Use intranets or extranets to provide information for your employees.
Why It’s Important:
• Real estate on your public website – particularly the [...]



