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Web Design Checklist
Web design is a unique kind of art that differs from design in other
media. Actually, web design is more like a hybrid of computer science, rhetoric,
and visual art. So the challenges for the web creator are manifold:
Simple Web Design is Good Web Design
The implied joke among seasoned web designers is that you can tell a neophyte
by the number of html graphics, flashing icons, and animated doohickeys.
The best web design, in fact, has very few pictures and a majority of text.
Organization is a Web Design Must
It is imperative that a site be well-organized if it is to be what is considered
“user-friendly”. Cross links (links within your site) should
be clearly labeled, in the same menu in the same place on every page, and functioning
(no broken links!). While the most often used location for the menu is
to the left (which is probably due to English, which is read first from the
left side of a page), many web sites feature the menu at the top, the bottom,
or both top and bottom. More important is that the menu is readable, consistent,
and working.
Ranking is all the Rage in Web Design
You’ve likely read or heard that search-engine ranking is the make-or-break
of the web design world. The more the spiders crawl your site, the more
frequently your site appears as relevant to keyword searches. And the
more frequently your site appears, the higher up the ranking file you go.
Using keyword-rich pages, cross-linking your pages, and linking to high-ranking
outbound sites are three strategies to adopt and adapt.
Legal and Ethical Practices are a Must in Web Design
There are ways to get your web site flagged, banned, exiled to the nether regions
of web hell. Creating shadow sites--twin sites that have no content other
than a list of keywords and links to each other, spam-stacked up in small print,
hiding keywords under html or graphics, or using any gimmicks, tricks, or unethical
web design scams will not only send users screaming resentfully off to better
cyberspace locales but will usually get you blacklisted by the major search
engines (which are either controlled by hands-on humans who know all the cheats
and will catch them or are run by highly intuitive spiders that respond in the
opposite manner than you intend—if you overdo the SEO stuff, for instance).
Many more web design tips and guideline exist on the internet. All you
need do is a keyword search!
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