A lot of people are getting into web design yet they aren’t aware of all the techniques involved. Are you trying to become a professional or do you just want to do a good job with your site? Learn how to create an excellent site by reading this piece.
When you are designing a website, it is important to have proper spelling and grammar. In addition to running spell-check on your content, ask a friend or co-worker to proofread everything. Having good spelling and grammar on your website will help give it a professional feel and your visitor will be more likely to return.
If you are designing a website, choose proper graphics. Remember, bitmap images can get quite large and often don’t work very well while PNG images work fine. Try using PNGs for images that are not photos or text buttons or if an image has over 256 colors. Use GIFs for something with less than 256 colors. Photos require JPEG to ensure high quality.
For multimedia presentations, take advantage of the new HTML5 standard. Although HTML5 isn’t quite as robust for animation and games as Flash, it has the advantage of working stably on mobile phone browsers, including those contained in Apple hardware. HTML5 is also quite a bit leaner than Flash, so load times will improve, as well.
It may look pretty, but stay away from having too many animations on your site. Having your sales splash page rotate, spin and blink may look cool to you, but it will likely drive potential viewers away. When you add too many flashy splashes like that, it makes your site look amateurish which is not the message you want to convey.
Are you ready to create a great site? Try everything you learned here, but don’t stop! Keep learning in order to continue your success in web design!