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How to Design a Good Web Site?

how to design a high quality web site

When designing your web site, you should consider the following :
  1. Content - lots of quality content.
  2. Regular updates.
  3. Good, clean design and navigation.
  4. Try to make sure that all the pages on your site follow a template and that all of the navigational links are the same.
  5. Try to make sure you do not have any broken links on your site.
  6. Try to make sure your colour schemes are acceptable to all of your users, including those with impaired vision.
  7. Try to make your design as user friendly and appealing as possible.
  8. Try not to give your users a headache or eye strain when they visit your web site.
  9. Aim for a good combination of text and images, but make sure your page loads quickly. If you have a galleries page, try using thumbnail pictures.
  10. Easy to read?
  11. Link exchanges.
  12. Supplying good free content.
  13. Adding user forums.
  14. Pages must be download quickly.
  15. Have good, clear and simple site navigation.
  16. Create a newsletter for people to subscribe to for free telling them about the new content or features of your site.
  17. Be pro-active.
  18. Content should be not more than 2 mouse click from your home page.
  19. Site must be well thought out.
  20. Simple, usable web site that everyone can access.
  21. Try to make sure your visitors do not get lost in your website and that every page is as few mouse clicks away as possible.
  22. Make sure your visitors know which page they are correctly on.
  23. Site must be integrated and act as one unit.
  24. Use templates to keep good consistency of design over your site.
  25. Search Engine Marketing.
  26. Finding your niche market.
  27. Provide site tools, eg. search bar, blogs etc.
  28. Ensure there are no errors with your code.
  29. Don't use page re-directs.
  30. Use categories for your content subjects.
  31. How does your user benefit?
  32. Will your site work in all of the major web browsers?
  33. Will your site need 3rd party plugins? If so how easy and which are they to install?
  34. Does your site inspire customers to revisit your site and purchase from you?
  35. Does your site cater for visually impaired people?
  36. Can your web site be viewed on a mobile phone?
  37. Is your web site efficient?
  38. Will site use ALT tags?
  39. Will your web site use java script?
  40. Will your web site be using frames?
  41. make sure your site is hosted by a professional web hosting company
  42. Will your web site use XSLT?
  43. Will your web site use CSS?
  44. Will your web site use RSS?
  45. Will your web site use flash?
  46. Will you make your site available in different languages?
  47. Always test all of your pages before putting them on your site.
  48. Make sure your pages have no errors on them.
  49. Try to make sure that your site complies with w3c standards, bobby etc.
  50. Get other people to look over your site before you put it on the web.
  51. Always check for spelling mistakes.
  52. If you would like to know how you are doing, fill in our A.N.A Web Hosting's web site health check

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