Web Design
Designing a website requires careful thought and planning.
The most important thing is to know your audience.
Users are Viewers
A typical visitor will not read all the content of your webpage!
No matter how useful the information you post on your webpage is, a visitor will only spend a few seconds skimming before deciding whether to continue reading.
Make sure your key points are in the first sentence of the page! Additionally, you need to use short paragraphs and engaging headings throughout the page.
Less is More
Keep paragraphs as short as possible.
Keep sections as short as possible.
Pages with lengthy text are not user-friendly.
If your webpage contains a lot of content, break it down into smaller modules and place them on different pages!
Navigation
Use a consistent navigation structure on all pages of your website.
Do not use hyperlinks within text paragraphs, as hyperlinks will take visitors to other pages and disrupt the consistency of the navigation structure.
If you must use hyperlinks, you can add them at the bottom of a paragraph or in the menu.
Loading Speed
Sometimes developers are unaware that some webpages take a long time to load.
Statistics show that most users will stay on webpages that load in less than 7 seconds.
Test your webpage on a low-speed modem. If your webpage takes a long time to load, consider removing images or multimedia content.
User Feedback
Feedback is a great thing!
Your visitors are your "customers." Often, they will provide excellent suggestions for improving your website.
If you provide a good feedback channel, you will receive feedback from many people from different fields.
Visitor's Monitor
Not everyone on the internet has the same monitor size.
If you design a website to be displayed on a high-resolution monitor, it may cause problems when accessed on a lower-resolution monitor (such as 800 × 600).
Please test your website on different monitors.
Check out our Monitor to learn about monitor trends.
What Browser Do They Use?
Please test your website on different browsers.
The most popular browsers currently are: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome.
When designing a webpage, a wise practice is to use correct HTML. Proper coding will help browsers display your webpage correctly.
Visit our Browser Statistics for information on browser trends.
Client-side Plugins
Sound, video clips, or other multimedia content may require separate programs (plugins) to play.
Ensure that your visitors can use the software they need on your webpage.
What About the Disabled?
Some people have visual or hearing impairments.
They may try to use braille or voice browsers to access your webpage. Therefore, you should add alternative text for images and graphic elements on your webpage.