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Article #32: Web Page Design Tips

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This may be your first web page design, Next on your list of good web page design
or perhaps you are an old hand. Either must be to arrange your texts for easy
way, you will need to address a number of reading. Let us remember that reading the
important issues to ensure that your web screen is different from reading print.
page design caters uniformly to all Attention on screen is brief. Opt
viewing needs. Here is a primer of therefore for a decent web page design
essentials: that attends to specificities like
Web Page Navigation bulleted lists, short paragraphs,
Ever wonder why you let in viewers to subheads, highlighted keywords and
your website in the first place? Well, suchlike.
the answer must be 'to explore your Coming to fonts, numerous online tests
website'. If so indeed, your web page have been conducted by usability experts.
design ought to go easy on navigation. The ones that emerge as most legible and
Proceed with a menu of links across the generally preferred are Verdana and Comic
page at the top or down the left. Text though other types such as Arial, Courier
links are always better. And yes, for a and Georgia also find acceptance in web
good web page design, the link pattern page design.
has to be consistent in all pages, no Screen Resolution
matter what the pages are about. Time now to explore screen resolution you
The Colors would opt for your web page design.
If you are in for color background for Despite perceptible shift to high screen
your web page design, help yourself to resolutions, there are many viewers who
some serious thinking. Not that color still feel comfortable with lower
background is bad per se. Pastel shades resolution. 640x480 pixels may be passé,
do look nice, but if you consider that but not so are 800x600 pixels. If you are
human eyes are more accustomed to white alive to this scenario, you will do well
background (as in case of books), it will to span your web page design on
be all the more reason to do just that percentage of screen size instead of
for your web page design. fixing width in pixels.
The Links If your preferred web page design is for
Even if your main navigation links are high resolutions, you will find the
trendy, ensure that other text links headlines getting cluttered in small
sport an easy look. In many a web page screens and the texts overlapping. The
design, one fails to mark out text links best option would be to work out a parity
from other content. This happens if you among various screen resolutions so that
choose near-similar colors for both. The your web page design does not loose
least you want in your web page design is harmony.
to confuse your visitor with link Browser Compatibility
anomaly. Another point worth attending to Not all browsers display your web page
is denoting visited links with a distinct design in the same way. As of now,
color. Nothing is more frustrating than Internet Explorer 6 stands tall with
visiting same page again and again. about 60% of all users. Firefox comes
Easy Reading next but lags IE6 by a wide margin at
For any web page design, content is 25%. Since between them, the two manage
considered as bread-and-butter. an overwhelming 85% of acceptance, it may
Controlling text-size of content with just be that your web page design
styles is in vogue these days in many web compulsorily conforms to both, if not for
page designs. Yet a common refrain among others like Mozilla, Netscape and Opera,
serious viewers is to allow them to who collectively commands just about 5%
decide the text size. This calls for of browser-reach.
ability to resize text as required.






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