Author: Rincewind
Short Tips
Make your site consistent through the pages. Wherever is the navigation panel in one page there it should be on another one. The color theme should be the same except in the cases you want to indicate to the visitor that they reached different part of the site.
Use the so called non breaking space - ' ' which put between two words appear as space but this tell the browser that the words should not be separated.
Do not use page counters. They suck. Use some kind of statistics but do not use page counters (shown to your visitors). It was cool 5 years ago.
Do not put 'Under construction' signs. Every site is developing. That doesn't mean that we should all put such signs. If something is not ready do not put it there.
Do not use blinking text. This is part of the HTML standards but it is so annoying and unnecessary that some browsers like IE go further and render this kind of text as normal, non blinking one.
Try not to create all blue sites. Yeah, I understand that you think the blue is nice color. Haven't you seen that you are not the only one? There are so much blue sites that it will be very hard for yours to stand out of the crowd.
Do not use frames. There is so much trouble with them - your site can not be properly indexed by most of the web crawlers, no one can bookmark a specific page because the browser's address bar shows the main one. If you hit the refresh button the main page is refreshed instead of the one you are looking at. If you go to forums about web design you can see endless accusations towards the frames. Do not use them if you are not totally confident in their use.
Do not use splash screen. Yeah the one that is cool the first few times when you come to the site and the same which become boring and time consuming to pass the next hundreds visits.
Short Tips
Make your site consistent through the pages. Wherever is the navigation panel in one page there it should be on another one. The color theme should be the same except in the cases you want to indicate to the visitor that they reached different part of the site.
Use the so called non breaking space - ' ' which put between two words appear as space but this tell the browser that the words should not be separated.
Do not use page counters. They suck. Use some kind of statistics but do not use page counters (shown to your visitors). It was cool 5 years ago.
Do not put 'Under construction' signs. Every site is developing. That doesn't mean that we should all put such signs. If something is not ready do not put it there.
Do not use blinking text. This is part of the HTML standards but it is so annoying and unnecessary that some browsers like IE go further and render this kind of text as normal, non blinking one.
Try not to create all blue sites. Yeah, I understand that you think the blue is nice color. Haven't you seen that you are not the only one? There are so much blue sites that it will be very hard for yours to stand out of the crowd.
Do not use frames. There is so much trouble with them - your site can not be properly indexed by most of the web crawlers, no one can bookmark a specific page because the browser's address bar shows the main one. If you hit the refresh button the main page is refreshed instead of the one you are looking at. If you go to forums about web design you can see endless accusations towards the frames. Do not use them if you are not totally confident in their use.
Do not use splash screen. Yeah the one that is cool the first few times when you come to the site and the same which become boring and time consuming to pass the next hundreds visits.
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I really like Do's and Do Not's of this article :)
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