Web Design Tips

The HTML tag is on the way out. It was officially deprecated in the HTML 4 standard, meaning that in the near future it’s headed the way of the dinosaur. In its place cascading style sheets have risen to meet the formatting challenges of the ever-evolving Web. Unfortunately, you may already have a Web site that’s loaded down with the byte-heavy weight of the tag and its numerous properties. Even if you create CSS styles for the HTML tags in your pages, you’re still stuck with that old tag. In fact, its properties will override those of a style sheet. Going through every page of your site to remove that tag is a major pain–if you do it by hand.

Things To Check Before Your Launch Date:
Broken Links: Perform a click-through of your site a few times to make sure that all of the links work.
Load Time: Make sure your load-time is acceptable. Most people do not want to wait forever for a site to load.
Browser Compatibility: Check your web site in the latest versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. There are many instances in which some web sites will work in Internet Explorer and not in Netscape and vise versa, due to coding errors or functionality limitations.
Spell Check: And last but not least, perform a spell check. You do not want to give your visitors a bad first impression by misspelling a ‘lrage amnt of wrds.’ Most web design firms recommend that their client spell check the information they pass over to the firm before the text is implemented into the site.

The Triad color scheme is a color scheme that works on three colors that are equal distance apart on the color wheel. The basic triad is the primary colors of red, blue and green, but you can also have a triad of the secondary colors or of a combination of some tertiary colors. Triad color schemes result in colors that work very well together and they’re also very bright with a lot of contrast between the individual colors.

Graphical:
For graphics with text within them, do not convert / make them JPG images, keep them GIF images. By making them JPG images, you will make the image look grainy, and not as vibrant. This is a very important part of design as it is easy to spot and looks very unprofessional. You will notice in the example below how much cleaner the GIF image is. As well every time you save a JPG you lose quality, so keep your source files!Layout: It is important to make your web site as user friendly as possible.

After all, your competition’s site is only a mouse click away; the easier your site is to work with, the more utility it will provide to your audience. An easy way to ensure your site works for your viewers, is to offer Site Navigation in both graphical and text formats. You will find that the easier it is to move around your site, the more useful it will become.Laying out a CSS site can be frustrating, unless it is properly and cleanly laid out. By carefully following these tips, you will save yourself quite a bit of frustration with an easy to manage site.

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