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10 Fast Track DON'Ts for Effective Web Design 2008-05-10 13:05:00 (1) DO NOT image backgrounds or flashy elementsThey distract user attention from main content of your site.(2) DO NOT use incompatible fonts or text that is too smallVisitors don’t log into your site with font decoders or magnifying glasses!(3) DO NOT leave links without underlining Visitors must at least distinguish clickable text with not clickable ones!(4) DO NOT use ALL CAPS or Bold Fonts for all the textYOU DO NOT WANT VISITORS TO READ “SHOUTING TEXT” LIKE THIS!(5) DO NOT centre align all of your body text. It disturbs natural temptation of smooth reading.(6) DO NOT use different colors and fonts on different pagesAll pages must look as if they belong to one single site!(7) DO NOT use “Under Construction” signs or messagesEven if your site is really Under Construction! Read more:Track
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10 Fast Track DO’s for Effective Web Design 2008-05-10 08:09:00 1. Optimize Images/Graphics for Web Helps in boosting speed of loading 2. Keep easy navigation links at all pages Visitors should be able to steer smoothly along the site 3. Select simple but professional looking fontsA Verdana or Arial with 10 px would not be a bad choice! 4. Keep the layout clean, simple and professional Your website is not a garbage van! Don't clutter it! 5. Split your content into small pages and categories There's no essay writing competition out there! Place contents in small categories! 6. Use dark text on light background It encourages natural readability 7. Make your site load within (at the most) 8 secondsPreferably 4-5 seconds!! [See Also:5 Tips to boost up loading time of your site] 8. Make sure that your site is consistent across major browsers a Read more:Track
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5 unwanted things in Web Designing 2008-05-10 05:14:00 (1) Flashy ElementsToo many flash elements distract the attention of visitors and the professional image of your site. Not only does it signify amateurish design but also affects the loading time of pages. (2) Hi-fi BackgroundsNo! Keeping a waterfall image as a background is not going attract visitors! Look at popular sites like Google and Yahoo: There has to be good reasons for them not using image backgrounds. Hi-fi Backgrounds distract reading of the all important foreground text. For most websites, simple white background is best!(3) Lengthy PagesWith long pages, you’re making the visitor struggle to find his key content. It is always better to split up your content into categories or pages. A short page with a nicely presented content always arouses interest of visitor and encourag Read more:things
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5 Tips to boost up loading time of your site 2008-05-10 05:12:00 (1) Minimize use of imagesThis is so very elementary. Unless yours is a wallpaper site, it makes little sense to load up large and too many images or graphics. Besides boosting up loading time, they also eat up most of your blank space, which is so essential for professional looks. Using small graphics instead would make sure that there is a graphical appeal along with fast loading(2) Always optimize Images for WebThere are various tools available to optimize images in JPEG and GIF Formats. Optimization of images for web ensures that your images use minimum number of colors, and are modified to suit web pages in best way.(3) Say no to Large Image BackgroundsLarge image backgrounds can really inflate the size of your webpage. Image background is hardly useful as most visitors are interested
5 More Tips for Effective Web Design 2008-05-10 04:20:00 (1) Support for all screen resolutionsTrust me; your website can look very different under different screen resolutions. Designing layouts that fit any screen resolution makes the visitor believe that your website is made for his resolution. This can be done by designing your site in relative or percentage terms rather than absolute or pixel terms(2) Make it compatible with major browsersKeeping a footnote that says “This site is best viewed in Mozilla Firefox” will most probably not induce your visitors to actually download Mozilla Firefox to view your site. Your website should be compatible with most browsers, especially the four widely used ones, viz: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari(3) Use Attractive and Professional Looking fontsYour text should be attrac Read more:Web Design
5 Basic Tips for Good Web Designing 2008-05-10 02:53:00 (1) Make it Easy to NavigateYour website designing is quite clearly a failure if layman cannot navigate around it with ease. Provide a menu if possible, on all the pages of your website. A link back to the main or homepage should also, at all times, be provided on each and every page of your site. It would be better if you could integrate a Homepage link in the omni-present menu itself. Your website should have a powerful navigation system and an easy to understand one – even for the Fifth grader next door!(2) Make it Easy to ReadVisitor must be at ease while reading the content of your web pages. Use of appropriate font sizes as well as colors is an absolute must. Text should be aligned to the left. Very large or very small fonts and light colored text could reflect lack of professional Read more:Designing
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for Intellectual Webs ()If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at yashved@live.com.At Intellectual Webs (), the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by Intellectual Webs () and how it is used.Log FilesLike many other Web sites, Intellectual Webs () makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. Read more:Privacy
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Welcome to Intellectual Webs 2008-05-06 13:31:00 Intellectual
Webs features comprehensive articles, tips, tricks, and tutorials on Web Designing suitable both for the beginner as well as advanced and expert web designers, web authors, and bloggers. We are sure our efforts will help Web Designers' effective web designing and success in their endeavors.We'd love to hear from you as to how you rate the articles, tips, tricks, tutorials, the way of presentation and style of writing on this blog. Tell us what you love or what you dislike about this blog or how we should improve.You are free to rate any post via comments (However advertising or spamming is strictly prohibited in comments). Please read our Terms of Use for more information Read more:Welcome
Web Designing Tips I: Choosing a background 2008-05-13 01:39:00 Use a White BackgroundLog on to popular websites like Google or Yahoo and one thing that immediately strikes you on almost all of them, is the white background
. And, majority of them have simple black text on white background. There's is a very strong reason for this. The thing with white background is that you have a much larger base for color selection for foreground text as most dark colors go Read more:Designing
5 Myths about Web Designing 2008-05-20 07:29:00 (1) My site has a great design, so it doesn’t matter if content is not up to the mark.This is one of common and horribly wrong belief among web designers and developers. Visitors don't like to wander around the site simply because there is a nice and appealing. All that eye-candy is totally ineffective if there lack of relevant and useful content. (2) Flash, animated graphics and image backgroun Read more:Myths
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