Best Web Design Techniques

A professional web design is build around lots of minor and major things. The core of it is a proper detailed plan. It’s always better to let the professionals do their work, but if you are thinking of doing it yourself than here are few simple basic rules:

1. Keep the design as simple as possible.
2. Consider your website visitors starters, give them a clean and easy to navigate web site.
3. Don’t over do colors, sharp colors may effect your online visitors’ stay. Cool colors will keep them longer your site.
4. Include your keywords in titles, headers and heading tags of web pages.
5. Avoid excessive use of flash.
6. Keep your theme consistent throughout your website (especially with your colors – stay neutral and if you have a logo, theme your website colors to compliment your logo.)
7. Create a site map. People may not use this to navigate a site. But a sitemap helps the search engines navigate your site for indexing. It’s a must to have these days.
8. When using embedded images always include alternate text.
9. Never use all caps in your content body unless you are emphasizing something very important and only then when it is a few words in one context.
10. Never ever copy contents or design layout from other websites. Genuine contents are the key to your online success.
11. Have a blog, it’s quit easy to have one these days. No need to design, just install software like WordPress, and see your site grow.
12. Validate your website HTML once you are finished with web design.

Mortgage Website Design from iReadySites is a good example of above mentioned techniques.