| Your website is where your business resides -- it's | | | | be too big. This is important because a block of text |
| like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it | | | | that is too large will deter visitors from reading your |
| is important to practise good design principles to | | | | content. |
| make sure your site reaches out to the maximum | | | | Make sure your website complies to web standards |
| number of visitors and sells to as many people as | | | | at and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. |
| possible. | | | | If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but |
| Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation | | | | breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out |
| of your website. The navigation menu should be | | | | on a lot of prospective visitors. |
| uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to | | | | Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it |
| navigate around your website without confusion. | | | | is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to |
| Reduce the number of images on your website. | | | | handle or manipulate data, not to create visual |
| They make your site load very slowly and more | | | | effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow |
| often than not they are very unnecessary. If you | | | | down the loading time of your site and even crash |
| think any image is essential on your site, make sure | | | | some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported |
| you optimize them using image editing programs so | | | | across all browsers, so some visitors might miss |
| that they have a minimum file size. | | | | important information because of that. |
| Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If | | | | It's always a good idea to invest in a good website |
| a paragraph is too long, you should split it into | | | | template because after all, your website represents |
| seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not | | | | your business. |