Simple website design wins the race, yes, that’s true, we all now have seen many websites with simple look and have huge success,  the biggest example is google, due to their simplicity they have win the race of search engines, simple web design have many advantages on complex, graphically appealing or animated layout,

1. Simple layout is lightweight and loads fast.

2. Visitors easily find links.

3. Visitors feel more comfortable reading contents in simple layout.

4. Easy to navigate.

5. Easy to maintain.

6. Easy to update contents.

If your website header section is simple, your company logo will look more clear, your slogan will look more visible and if you have any links in header bar, they are more easy to find and navigate, but if your website header is more towards busy graphics, your company logo might lost in graphics, your slogan will overlooked and its hard to find links in header bar.

While making left navigation or right navigation (whatever your website have), try to make it simple, don’t put fancy background behind links, try to manage your links in sections, like main menu, resources, company menu, support menu etc, a little line at right links helps which makes it separate from other contents, colors of links should be more visible than other contents, links should be bold.

Footer is also very important like header, put all important link in footer, you have links in header, have links in left navigation and right navigation, put them all in footer and put them in sections, at left side of footer your small version of your company logo looks cool with copyright statement, in rest of the section you can put links.

Online Presence is now must for every company, no matter what your product is, what services you are offering, having online website is must and making strong online presence is not easy at all, if you don’t consider it seriously, you might have website with no functionality or don’t benefit your business much, so people hire professional web development company to make them website which makes their business grow and even hire professional to promote it too.

Choosing web development company is a time taking task, you must put your enough time to research for companies, interview them like in-house employ and checking their expertise etc, because a professional team can make you a web presence which take your business to peak at the other hand unprofessional can vanish your reputation or further more can make you embarrass in front of your competitor. If you follow these guidelines, it will help you a lot in choosing a right candidate.

What are their technical expertise.

Check company portfolio, if they have many testimonials, check what kind of project they have did in past, because if your project is hi tech type and they have testimonial about simple projects, they are not fit with your requirement, check for project which are close to what you are looking to develop, also ask about w3c standards and ISO certified coding style, ask them that you need valid xhtml coding.

Cross browser compatibility.

People use different browsers and one browser behavior is different from other, sometimes one site looks perfect in one browser but totally vanish in other browser, so ask them about cross browser compatibility, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera and Google Chrome are important.

Website Navigation.

Navigation is the most important factor of your website, ask the candidate about how they make navigation, tell them that you need every link to be reachable in 2 click not more.

Which language they use server side.

If you are buying hosting from your web developer company than its not very important, but if you are buying at your own, than you must tell them in advance, because different languages require different server, ask them which language they use, ask about advantages and disadvantages of programming language.

Which database they use.

Different databases are use online, mySQL, Sql server, Access are few of them, ask them which one they use and why.

 SEO consideration.

And lastly, ask about SEO consideration, on page optimization is not very important as it is before, but still, you need on page optimization, it helps you in ranking search engines other than google, msn and yahoo and also doing SEO practice makes your page more meaningful to your visitors.

 

These are few tips on choosing best candidate for your online presence.

Can you buy 100 $ product from a website which don’t have contact info?,

Answer is NEVER, Why? because you don’t feel confidence about the company.

 Whenever visitor see website and they like products, they look for contact info, if site only have email address to contact, no phone # no physical address, they don’t feel much confident, Read more…

Publishing site in html require planning first, if you just start making slice of image and just putting it in html you might end up frustrated, so best way to publish website is to plan first, make a plan how you will make tables, how many rows you require, how you will put your navigation etc etc.

If you put header in separate file, left links navigation (if any) in separate file and footer in separate file, this is the best strategy,  Read more…

 

Navigation is the most important thing in your website, if your site is beautifully design but your navigation design is poor, your client more likely to go away in few seconds, so dont take navigation just a part of your website design, it is the most important factor of your website, while designing your navigation follow these steps, 

1.     Write Down Pages Titles On Words Document.

First of all write down your entire website pages in word document. Read more…

This is the first thing comes in client mind, ” i need animation in my website”, I don’t know but if you ask this question to the client, do u feel comfortable reading while people dancing around you haha, I don’t think people usually like animation on website, animation is annoying, it hurts your client attention, but if you still don’t convince, OK, lets use flash on website, here is how you can use flash animation on website without hurting your client badly haha. 

1.     Animate Your Logo Or Company Name.

Your logo is the best place to animate, ONLY LOGO and only once when your website loads, that’s it  Read more…

Many people ask this question, “which tool I use to built my website Photoshop Or Fireworks”, I answer BOTH, why?, let me clear myself.

 

While making website this is always good idea to make prototype of main layout first, because start making website on html is painful,  Read more…

Header Designing is the toughest thing in whole website, your header tells your visitor what is your site about, research says that visitor usually take 8 seconds to decide whether to stay at  website or go away for good, so if your header don’t tell him any story and your headlines not grabing attention of your visitor, than your website don’t give you much success.

For successful website three things are most important, Read more…

Writing contents for your own website looks like lots of work?, isn’t, yes, but you are the best person to write your own copy, why?, because you know your topic well, just don’t think “ I m not a writer”, start writing in your own language, write like you are telling your friend about your field, don’t try to make good sentences and don’t choose difficult words.  

Use dictionary not for finding difficult word but to find easy words for difficult words, people don’t read comfortably with difficult words, difficult words or technical words distract their attention, .. Read more…

This is the phase every designer face everyday or sometimes 2 to 3 times a day, who is this kind of creative?, how we can give too much creativity to our clients, clients always want unique design, he need master piece state of art type thing, how many designers can give state of art type websites and master piece to each and every client, so if we start our websites with these tips our design not only finish soon, but also we will give our client quality design, all right, we are starting our website.

 

First of all open up internet explorer, yes I said Internet explorer not Photoshop, now open 2 to 3 template sites Read more…