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