| Website design has come a long ways. Since the | | | | Fonts. Skip the giant fonts, but don't make your site too |
| internet first began to gain popularity, when HTML was | | | | hard to read, either. You may want to offer an option |
| widely used by all and flashing, brightly colored fonts | | | | for the reader to resize the text according to |
| were scattered across gaudy backgrounds, things | | | | preference. Otherwise 10 or 12 pt. Should be just fine. |
| have changed. | | | | The overall design of the site needs to be eye |
| These days, if your website isn't designed properly, | | | | catching, but nice. Don't make visitors go blind with |
| you won't have a lot of luck with visitors. It's important | | | | weird colors and bright, illegible fonts. You should |
| to consider how the visitor is looking at your site and | | | | always test each page in various browsers to see |
| then to tweak it accordingly. Here are a few things to | | | | what it looks like. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer |
| consider. | | | | are the biggest ones that will be very important to look |
| Speed. How fast does the website load? If your text | | | | at. |
| isn't up within a couple of seconds, most people are | | | | In the end, it is the website design that first lets people |
| just going to click away. Speed things up by skipping | | | | know what you're about, before they even notice the |
| flash intros and using properly sized photographs. | | | | content. If a page is too hard to read right from the |
| Colors. Forget the eye searing neons of yesteryear. | | | | start, they will just leave, never to be seen again. Avoid |
| Today's sites are elegant with pleasing colors. Choose | | | | this problem and maximize traffic by building a website |
| a palette that appeals to the eyes and then stick with | | | | that will please people and make them want to come |
| it. | | | | back by being easy on the eyes and fast to load. |