| Your business website is your office on the web | | | | delivers no value. |
| where you will do your business. In fact it needs to | | | | With these things and your research in mind, here are |
| perform many functions. It's got to be store front, | | | | few other important points that you must take into |
| reception and salesperson everything. | | | | account while planning your website design. |
| It would become reflection of your business, the | | | | * Keep page size as small as possible. This can be |
| quality of your product, and your brand. | | | | achieved by using smaller and minimum graphic files i.e. |
| Therefore, your website should look professional and | | | | using a small logo, and images only if absolutely |
| well done. It does not need to be fancy, flashy and | | | | necessary. |
| expensive though. All that your site requires is a clean | | | | * Maintain Consistency throughout the site. Keep the |
| design, a simple layout and it should be | | | | same font throughout. Your website should bear |
| well-structured and easy to navigate. | | | | same or similar look throughout the page and every |
| A simple exercise that would help you to | | | | page. Different colored background for every page is |
| differentiate between good and bad web design is to | | | | kind of unprofessional. |
| surf and browse the sites in your niche. | | | | * Be Generous With White Space. Do not clutter or |
| There are some websites which would appeal to you | | | | congest your page. Format your page well. Leave a |
| and you would like to stay longer. And there would | | | | reasonable amount of margins on each side and |
| be others which you would like to run away from. | | | | center your text. Use line breaks and paragraphs! |
| You just know when you see a good page, and a | | | | People scan the web pages rather than reading, |
| bad one. | | | | therefore splitting your text into paragraphs would let |
| Analyze the pages. Note what you like and what you | | | | your visitor to absorb more with less effort! |
| do not as you surf. Identify the problems and note | | | | * Don't use cute fonts, background and graphics. Do |
| them down. | | | | not use fancy animations or effects. Your page |
| Take a special note of the big professional websites | | | | should look sincere, straightforward and easy to |
| are doing. | | | | navigate. |
| Most of them would have a simple layout! | | | | Before you publish your page, you should see how |
| While creating products we had kept into mind | | | | does your page actually look in the the web browser. |
| people's needs. While creating website we must take | | | | You should at least see your page in internet |
| into account the surfing habits of people. On internet, | | | | Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Firefox. |
| the people mostly come to search for the | | | | Use these principles and you would create good web |
| information. Most of the information is text based. If | | | | pages. |
| a fancy page has no information or substance, it | | | | |