Tips For avoiding costly web designing mistakes

Some More Tips For How To Avoid Costly Mistakes When Designing Your Website

Simple rather than flashy:
The use of multimedia can help you provide all kinds of features making your web pages lifelike and interesting. However, it is advisable to avoid its use if you really want your prospective visitors to gain quick access to your website and obtain the relevant information. It is a good idea to limit flash navigation, which can confuse users if over used. Always make access to your Home page direct from any page.

Focus on speed:
Files with graphic formats should never give users long download times or they will be driven away. Remember search engines find it hard to decipher text embedded in graphics and these features take longer to download. Avoid such things as far as possible. Have a look here for more technical tips on website loading and page design.

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Firefox 3 – What a nightmare

When Firefox announced a new version for their excellent web browser a couple of weeks ago – Version 3 – I wasted no time in down loading the latest version. Full of excitement.

I have been a massive Firefox fan (along with every other tech geek around) for a long time now.

What an absolute disappointment.

Along with the fact that half my add-ons were unsupported (such as RoboForm), it has an unbelievable amount of bugs, clashes with Norton 360 – and is just a massive let down.

After using the new version of Firefox for a couple of hours I actually changed my default browser back to IE7 (which I hate with a passion). Not for long however, because when you’re used to using Firefox – IE just doesn’t cut it.

So, IE goes back to being used only as the test browser for new web development – that’s about the extent of it’s use.

Yesterday, I uninstalled it and reinstalled Version 2.0.0.1.6 – and it’s back to it’s brilliant best! I love Firefox again.

Some technical tips for increasing your website loading time

Some technical tips for increasing your website loading time

Coding should be clean as possible, free of structure and CSS files should be off page where possible.

HTTP compression, otherwise called content encoding using gzip should be considered.

Consider compressing your textual content ie javascript etc with mod gzip or similar products.

CSS alternate style sheets should be referenced in the HTML but are not actually downloaded until they are needed and therefore reduce the total page size.

 

Advanced tech tips for web page loading

Advanced tech tips for web page loading

The total size of your images should be under 30K. Consider optimising your images for size, combining them, and replacing graphic rollovers with CSS

The total size of external scripts ideally should not be over 8K. Consider optimising your scripts for size, combining them, and using compression where appropriate for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents.

The total size of your external CSS should be under 8K. Optimise your CSS for size by eliminating white space in the code, using shorthand notation, and combining multiple CSS files where appropriate.

 

Designing Websites For Web Browsers

Designing Websites For Web Browsers

While designing your Website, you should understand the fact that your visitors might try to get access by using one of the many different browsers used throughout the globe. Hence, a vital part of your effort focuses on ensuring that your Website performs satisfactorily when accessed by any browser. If your Website is not accessible or does not run smoothly with certain browsers, then you might lose those visitors and potential clients to your competitors.

Various operating systems use different browsers. Therefore, even as Windows users prefer to use Internet Explorer, Firefox, or even Opera – Linux users could be accessing your site by using Konqueror while Mac users could visit via Safari.

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