| The Colors
If you are in for color background for your web page design, help
yourself to some serious thinking. Not that color background is
bad per se. Pastel shades do look nice, but if you consider that
human eyes are more accustomed to white background (as in case of
books), it will be all the more reason to do just that for your
web page design.
The Links
Even if your main navigation links are trendy, ensure that other
text links sport an easy look. In many a web page design, one fails
to mark out text links from other content. This happens if you choose
near-similar colors for both. The least you want in your web page
design is to confuse your visitor with link anomaly. Another point
worth attending to is denoting visited links with a distinct color.
Nothing is more frustrating than visiting same page again and again.
Easy Reading
For any web page design, content is considered as bread-and-butter.
Controlling text-size of content with styles is in vogue these days
in many web page designs. Yet a common refrain among serious viewers
is to allow them to decide the text size. This calls for ability
to resize text as required.
Next on your list of good web page design must be to arrange your
texts for easy reading. Let us remember that reading the screen
is different from reading print. Attention on screen is brief. Opt
therefore for a decent web page design that attends to specificities
like bulleted lists, short paragraphs, subheads, highlighted keywords
and suchlike.
Coming to fonts, numerous online tests have been conducted by usability
experts. The ones that emerge as most legible and generally preferred
are Verdana and Comic though other types such as Arial, Courier
and Georgia also find acceptance in web page design.
Screen Resolution
Time now to explore screen resolution you would opt for your web
page design. Despite perceptible shift to high screen resolutions,
there are many viewers who still feel comfortable with lower resolution.
640x480 pixels may be passé, but not so are 800x600 pixels.
If you are alive to this scenario, you will do well to span your
web page design on percentage of screen size instead of fixing width
in pixels.
If your preferred web page design is for high resolutions, you
will find the headlines getting cluttered in small screens and the
texts overlapping. The best option would be to work out a parity
among various screen resolutions so that your web page design does
not loose harmony.
Browser Compatibility
Not all browsers display your web page design in the same way. As
of now, Internet Explorer 6 stands tall with about 60% of all users.
Firefox comes next but lags IE6 by a wide margin at 25%. Since between
them, the two manage an overwhelming 85% of acceptance, it may just
be that your web page design compulsorily conforms to both, if not
for others like Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, who collectively commands
just about 5% of browser-reach.
Summing Up
Whatever your web page design be, remember a viewer takes only one-twentieth
of a second to form an impression of a website [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10895934/].
Juxtapose that with F-shaped reading pattern of viewers [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html],
and you know your job is cut up to make a suitable web page design.
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