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Neat and Easy Navigation:   Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.

Clean Layout Design:  A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site's looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use dream weaver templates for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

Program using pure CSS : The world is moving away from table based websites to pure CSS websites because it offers accessibility, reusability and considerably reduces file size apart from giving greater control over the look of your website. The single most important skill you can learn today to become a quality web designer is CSS programming!

Optimum Load Time:  Make sure your load time is low. For this you must: 
Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts:  They hugely increase your file size. 
Optimize your HTML & script code:  Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.
Use Server Side Include (SSI) files  where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

Design for all Screen Resolutions:   A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn't look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.

Ensure Web site scalability:   Make sure your code and design is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors keep increasing and varying it is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes and platforms.

Cross Browser Compatible:   Make sure you check your site for  Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Opera 7+, Safari 3+ and Netscape Navigator 6+   as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.

Remember K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid. Whatever design you do, just keep it simple. Don't overkill the design. Listen to your client also. They should be pleased. And lastly, learn and practice.

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To be a good web designer, it's important that you love and enjoy web designing because it's really hard to excel for something that you really don't like. If you have passion for web designing, then this will lead you to become more determined to improve and learn more your web design skills.

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I was a graphic designer for a long time, but were too scared to try websites, it looked ot technically complicated for me, then 2 years ago, I got a couple of books and learned how to use "Dreamweaver" which is a program that writes HTML code for you (well, sort of, you still need to learn how to read the code to debug your site), for me, a very non technical person, this was an awesome way ot get into web designing.

My best advice aside of learning how to use dreamweaver is that content is more important then decoration. Meaning that you can create the most beautiful color scheme for instance but if it's not making your texts readable, then it's no good.

Always think as a user while designing a site and try to anticipate what will draw users to your site.

Very necessary to understand the concept of the requirement, and accordingly compose something suitable..

color management is a must. avoid colors that are irritating like lime green.. yellow.. dont ever use it as your background. always make contrasting selections. light on dark or dark on light. web design is an art. be artistic!

These are some basic tips for creating good websites:

• Select a colour scheme and stick to it
• Use templates
• Provide an easy to use navigation system
• Don’t go overboard on special effects
• Ensure your visitors can read the text on the background
• It is a good idea to open links to other websites in a new window
• If your website is of more than 15 pages, it is useful to have a site map or a “Search” feature
• While it is important that your website looks clean and professional, it is far more important that you concentrate your efforts on the content and promotion
• Use white spaces to make your website look clean and tidy

Most of all, make your website web 2.0 based, this is the best solution of creating innovative and user friendly websites.

Watch out this video to learn how to design web 2.0 based websites.



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