| Your website is where your business resides | | | | should split it into separate paragraphs so |
| -- it's like the headquarter of an offline | | | | that the text blocks will not be too big. |
| company. Hence, it is important to practice | | | | This is important because a block of text |
| good design principles to make sure your site | | | | that is too large will deter visitors from |
| reaches out to the maximum number of visitors | | | | reading your content. |
| and sells to as many people as possible. | | | | |
| | | | Make sure your website complies with web |
| Make sure you have clear directions on the | | | | standards at and make sure they are |
| navigation of your website. The navigation | | | | cross-browser compatible. If your website |
| menu should be uncluttered and concise so | | | | looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks |
| that visitors know how to navigate around | | | | horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose |
| your website without confusion. | | | | out on a lot of prospective visitors. |
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| Reduce the number of images on your website. | | | | Avoid using scripting languages on your site |
| They make your site load very slowly and more | | | | unless it is absolutely necessary. Use |
| often than not they are very unnecessary. If | | | | scripting languages to handle or manipulate |
| you think any image is essential on your | | | | data, not to create visual effects on your |
| site, make sure you optimize them using image | | | | website. Heavy scripts will slow down the |
| editing programs so that they have a minimum | | | | loading time of your site and even crash some |
| file size. | | | | browsers. Also, scripts are not supported |
| | | | across all browsers, so some visitors might |
| Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable | | | | miss important information because of that. |
| length. If a paragraph is too long, you | | | | |