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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;The purpose of the web was to make the sharing of documentseasier. As the web grew, it started offering services that are essentiallybased on the philosophy of connecting the hyperlinked documents containinginformation. With the popularity of this new technology and the evolution ofinternet brought tools that made it extremely easier for anyone with internetaccess to publish their documents online.
Not all web content is designed to be accessible and usableby everyone. Even at places where people desperately wanted to share the information,their website design capabilities restricted them from creating betterwebsites. Even today web is full of websites that are poorly designed with badnavigational structure, broken links and incomprehensible content.
Whether you are hiring someone to design a website for you,or creating your own website. It is important that you understand not only theelements of better style and design but also the elements that could kill aperfectly good website.
A bad structure is when you do a website without planning itfirst. A web design that leaves the user bewildered as to where they shouldclick next is a web design with poor structure. Your website design should havea reasonable structure. It is wise to first plan your website before actuallydesigning and publishing it to the web. Make sure that you present theinformation divided into different pages. Each webpage should be accessible bya mouse click from other pages. The links should be placed at prominent placesso that visitors can find them out. Makesure you provide the information that a visitor to your website might seek.
Maintaining a consistency between the design styles ofdifferent web pages is critical. All your web pages should use the same stylerules to display content and links.
Colors play a very important role in every design whether itis a web design, a logo design, a building design. It is a proven fact thathuman minds react to the colors. A bad combination of color scheme may scareoff your visitors. For example using blue text with a yellow background coloris so painful that no one would stay on such a webpage for more than a second.Choose your colors wisely.
Nothing annoys a web user more than a broken link. Userscome to your site hoping to find links that will lead them to the informationthey seek and move on to somewhere else or take some action. If a webpagecontains broken links that lead to page not found errors a users simply hitbacks the home button to search for some other useful website. So make sureyour links are not broken and are connected to proper sources.
I dont remember how many times I visited websites thatoffered good content but failed to add some information. For example when youvisit a companys website to look for their contact information and you findout that even though they do have a website but they forgot to add theircontact information there. This is areal annoyance to most web surfers. When planning your website plan to add apage that provides all the necessary information that user may need to contactyou or learn more about the website.