Your website is where your business resides – it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.
When we design your website, we make sure to follow good web design practices:
- We have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.
- We keep the file size of images on your website to a minimum. Many big photos on the same page make your site load very slowly. If you think high-resolution images are essential on your site, we make sure we optimize them using image editing programs so that they have the smallest possible file size.
- We keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, we split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.
- We make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure it is cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox or Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.
- We use CSS to style your page content because they save a lot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.
- We avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.
Talk to Websites Are Us, your San Diego web designer about creating or redesigning your website and get a free quote today.
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