Web Page Design

Web Page Design

Good web page design is vital if you are planning on optimising your page for the search engines – and why wouldn’t you?

You should plan the design to suit search engines and your customers.

Some of the things that you need to keep in mind are:

demonstrationMaintaining a consistent theme for your website plays an important role in how effective your natural website rankings will develop. A properly developed website theme will reinforce the users understanding of exactly what your company is offering. (more…)

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.

 

Website Usability

Website Usability

When talking about usability, most people will refer to “simple things” like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.

Stuff like that is important (the point of driving people to a web site is to grow your business). However, that’s only one reason to focus on usability.

The goal should always be to improve the user experience.

The more that we, as web designers focus on the user, the better quality service we’ll provide our clients.