Web Designing Is Simple With These Tips

http://www.programmingisnothard.com/topics/brainstation
Web Designing Is Simple With These Tips
How about some tips regarding web

design? This is something that you probably will always be

able to use for a very long time. You owe it to yourself to

take a few minutes and read this article in order to get the

best advice on web design in order to improve

yourself.

Keep the size of your web pages small. A lot of modern web

pages are full of unnecessary elements, including huge

images, Flash advertising, and lots of AJAX. Many people,

especially those in rural areas and other countries with

less-developed internet infrastructure, don't have

high-speed Internet and will have to wait forever for a

large page to load.

Always mark files that must be opened in an external

program with an icon. Many sites host PDF files, and less

commonly, DOC files, that must be opened in Foxit Reader and

Microsoft Word/OpenOffice, respectively. These files should

be marked with an icon representing the file type, and a

link to download the appropriate viewer if the user does not

have it.

Learn how to use colors to influence your readers. Every

color has a certain feeling that it can induce. For example,

using black backgrounds or images could bring up feelings of

depression and darkness. The use of a color like yellow is

associated with happiness. Take the time to read up on the

psychology of colors when determining your site's color

scheme.

The file types that you utilize for your website's graphics

directly affect file sizes which in turn affect how quickly

your website loads. In general, it is best to use JPEGs and

GIFs for your graphics. While BMP and PNG files might be

better for creating web graphics, these file types tend to

use significantly more disk space. Convert your graphics

into file types with more manageable sizes if you want to

ensure that your visitors have a great user experience at

your website.

A well-written "About Us" page is worth the effort. Too

many websites use boring, generic biographies. Crank it up a

bit! Let people see who you are by sharing your educational

background, career moves and future goals.

Try to make sure that any music or pictures that you're

linking to is hosted on your own web server. Do not hotlink

to any other website images. This can be construed as

bandwidth theft and it could put you in violation of a

copyright too. It's not worth the risk.

When you do progress through your stages of web design and

have a site that is up and running you want to make sure

that it isn't cluttered with ads. People don't mind ads but

they hate it when there are a lot that make it difficult to

navigate through your site, and you don't want people mad.

Make sure you are always on the lookout for as much

information as you can grasp your mind around when you're

getting into web design. There usually isn't anything that

you can learn that isn't going to benefit you in web design,

unless the information you learn isn't true so be aware of

this.

To

summarize, you knew it would be a good idea to refresh

yourself on a few web design tips or to start off by getting

a good baseline knowledge on the subject. There is quite a

bit of information available and ideally you were able to

find this article both interesting and useful for your

website.