Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Most common mistakes in Website Design


At present Number of people are able to design sites, with the help of HTML editing softwares. They know quite enough to begin putting together their own sites and are providing to put their own newly acquired software’s to use for friends & relatives. A website must be able to do many things all at once like: Convey your message, Highlight your products, Detail your services, be easily accessible, Look professional and enhance your image (personal or corporate).

If the site looks very amateurish and does not present the proper image of your business, in this scenario, the message is totally lost and more over viewers may be chased away to another more professional website. So choose Professional service for it. Mostly people say that they cannot afford a professional designer for the site. But there are number of firms that offer their services at affordable cost.

There are some very common mistakes that a neophyte designer generally makes and you should be aware of these mistakes and discuss & take into consideration at the time of site designing your. These mistakes are: Page Breaks, Content Continuity, Publicity Photos, Font Selection, Background Selection, Animation Addiction, Dial-Up Viewers, Award Acknowledgement, Navigation Buttons, Adding Sounds, Effective Use of White Space and Browser Bonanza. 

Size of webpage and margin are two the biggest mistakes. Highlighting Phrases, Points and Key Words is also one of the common mistakes. These mistakes may be harmful for SEO point view because Content, Photos, Font Selection, Animation, Navigations and many more are on-page search engine optimization factors which are totally related to the site & page structure.

In case of Page Breaks & Content Continuity, content development is the first step in website creation. There should be 250 to 300 words content related to your business on each and every page of your site and it must be unique with no spelling and grammar errors. Do not over use “Bold” and “Highlight” features.  Since bold fonts help to grab attention in the sea of words and search engine bots reads the bold text on the page, Use Bold only for important words such as keywords.

When designing navigational link system, you ensure that search engine spiders may read & follow it. Navigational system and internal linking structure are the most crucial elements of on page SEO. Try to use always text based buttons & links for improving site accessibility and avoid Flash in navigational system that would be a safe option. So you need to keep this in mind while developing your site. If violated or not used properly, your website ranking in search engine results may suffer.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

New Trends and Technology in the field of Web Designing.


In Website design field, there is no space for stagnation because it is an ever changing field. Fast growing competition, new communication mediums and new creative avenues are few reasons pushing this market to go beyond the limits. It has become very challenging profession due to new trends & techniques hitting this area of software industry every year. If you want to be a web designer or you are wannabe web designer, you need professional training course that may help to be prepared for bigger challenges.

In 2012, one new trend is Responsive web design Melbourne which involves replacement of the fixed width with the fluid layouts & extensive use of the media queries into style sheets. This technique makes site accessible & responsive to visitors across multiple devices. If we talk about fixed position navigation, it had faded away from this field. In 2012 it is on return from wilderness. The fixed position navigation system contains a few links to connect pages in the string. Because of this it is very much suitable for blogs and links are kept visible for catching attention of visitors. It makes, in this way, a website user friendly and thus boosts the performance of site.

When web 2.0 technologies in website design Melbourne field came into role, rounded corners & drop shadows were in focus and with the help of CSS3, such types of fancy effects became very easier. If you check the portfolios of web designers, you will see circular elements that are used for displaying footer icons & navigation links. Circular shape looks attractive & grabs eyeballs. Multi-column layout is also one of the innovative designing fashions, which lends the creative look and also a sophisticated feel to site interface. Since Multi-column layout consists of many links, if designer is not good in creating multi columns layout specific interfaces, this may make navigation system messy. 

J-Query and animation effects are also belong to the web design category. Animation gives the wholesome design experience. You can create outstanding effects without much coding, if J-Query & CSS3 are carefully implemented. It was known fact that the flash animated websites were not being crawled by search engine robots, but after the advancements in the algorithm of search engines, flash elements and animations are now not ignored by the search engines. In the Google search results, these elements have recently started appear and will be given preference by all search engines
Although getting traffic or visitors to the site is easy but real challenge is to make them stay in site. In other words visitors must become returning visitors or loyal customers. Therefore, you should use SEO concepts in web designing.