Now suppose we want this site to a site that has products sold online. The fact that half of the users may not even on the page, translates into a loss worth half the amount now (maybe even more!) Therefore, we present a different creative skills and technical ability Blend – and it is no less important than the other. In the following lines, we have below a few points that we noticed during our observation listed on online sites that are important from the perspective of Web designers. Some of them can be taken with a pinch of salt, because it is not possible to please everyone every time. But most of them are simple enough to be used as a rule of thumb. 1st A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. A picture file, alas, is almost as large. Images, no doubt, improve the look of a page, but it is not advisable to go overboard in stuffing your page with a wealth of images. Most net-surfers use a dial-up connection and the average time to load a page should not be longer than 5 seconds. If there is more than surfer will most probably click away elsewhere. So, within that time, all images on a page as well be loaded. So, as a rough yardstick, keep the aggregate page size less than 30k. Another important point is that every file on the page requires a separate HTTP request to the server. So many small images – even if not in addition to an amount in the form of bytes – slows down the loading a lot. Even if you have to use images for navigation, please give a thought to users who do not see those jazzy, fantastic & truly amazing buttons that you will spend hours to design. Yes, we the ALT text attribute of the IMG are talking days. Remember, an alternate text for each image you can use for navigation. (It can left blank for certain images that are purely for aesthetic reasons, but are such that an exception, not the rule.) Although not clearly apparent, ALT text can help such users immensely. Modern browsers offer users a choice to disable the type. This gives an idea of how troublesome the unwanted images could be. A few other attributes that your pages load faster are the attributes width and height to make. Without this, the browser needs to wait for the image to download because they do not know how much to leave room for them! 2nd Navigability and functionality come before artistic excellence. It does not help that your site a masterpiece of art if users can not navigate around it – even after they reach the main page, they have no idea how to go where they want. 3rd Particularly common is a kind of navigation that some people call Mystery Meat Navigation. This means that if your mouse has more than one image, no idea where the link might take you. Only when the mouse pointer you see the actual link. This is complicated, because the users move their mouse all over the place to find out which part of a link and the need not. Fourth Follow the KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid! 5th Next is a very important practical suggestion: if you can your whole page in a table that does not make the page (ie, the page does not show on the screen) when the entire table to be downloaded. You might have noticed this on several sites when there is no activity for a long time, and suddenly the entire page is visible. In order to avoid such a situation, what should you do this: Split the table top is in two tables with each other and leave the top a short table that displays only the header of the page and a few navigation links. So, now, immediately after download this section of the site, users can view, leave the header of the page – and this prepares them ahead for the long wait, as it prevents them from your website, go to other pages in the case of a slow connection. 6th The ongoing browser wars have left only one casualty – the user. As a word of caution, stay away from all browser-specific functions. For if a certain feature is supported by a browser, it will certainly not be supported by another. Where you must use such features, it should not support any obstacles to viewing the page in another browser, such a functionality. In other words, your page should degrade gracefully. 7th Create a new browser window should be only the authority of the user. Do not try to popup new windows to the user’s screen clutter. All links should open by default in the same window. An exception can be made for pages with a link list. It is open conveniently in such cases to the links in a new window so that the user back to the links page easily. Even in such cases it is advisable to observe the user with a prior that links in a new window will open. 8th Note the fonts-challenged users too. The ultra-jazzy “Cloister Black MT Light” font that looks so amazing on your computer may well be degraded into plain old Times New Roman on your user’s computer. The reason? He / she does not install the font on his computer – and one thing is clear – there’s nothing you can do about the situation, sitting halfway around the world from them. 9th Stay away from hard to find out-of-the-art, fonts. Use plain vanilla fonts like Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Courier. If necessary, make your jazzy fonts into an image and lay down on the page. (And if you’re there, do not forget Tip # 1). 10th A new design trick is used more frequently on the Internet has caught my imagination: It is a very functional navigation bar takes you through all possible paths within the site. It looks something like this – reading:
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