Best Known Web Design Practices
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Your website is actually your virtual office. It maintains relevant information about the company on the World Wide Web. Thus, for this reason, it is important you follow the recommended Best Known Web Design Practices to make sure all aspects of your organization are communicated out more concisely and clearly.
Secondly, your navigating menu ought to be clean and also concise so that visitors browse your website without complication. You can also check out our other article about the “5 vital tips for Website Designers”
Avoid in-line styling, always make use of CSS to style your site given that they’ll reduce the need of styling individually each element within your site. CSS will actually make you work a lot easier and faster by styling all of the components on your website within one go.
Another equally important and best web design practice is to limit the number of images on your website. Images by their nature are heavier than texts and as such, they will only ruin your page loading speed especially when loaded too many or not optimized well.
Also, Limit the use of scripting languages on your site unless it’s absolutely needed. They’ll negatively affect your site loading time and also result in errors on some browsers since heavy scripts are not well supported by many browsers and thus some guests may miss crucial details due to that fact.
Also more frequently than not search engines can not read the content of images (how beautiful an image is google AI can not tell the difference) which make them quite unnecessary in most cases.
If you feel you must use a particular image on your site, we recommend you first resize and compress them to optimum file sizes and dimensions using any of the freely available photo editing tools like Smart PNG and JPEG compression, online image optimizer etc. We have tonnes of image optimization techniques in our knowledgebase section that you can refer to anytime.
Maintain your content paragraphs short. Break up long paragraphs into small and readable text blocks. This is actually vital due to the fact that large paragraphed texts are difficult to read and will hinder discourage your site visitors from reading your content.
Also, ensure the website conforms and does not any infringe on the standard at www.w3.org and make sure the site is mobile responsive and cross-browser compatible. If the site loads great in chrome browser yet looks horribly say on Firefox, you will definitely lose out on a great deal of potential website visitors.
