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- Make sure the design of your pages has the same theme throughout
the site. Ensure your identity is recognisable on each page so
people know they are on your site.
- keep the
logo simple (definitely not animated) and at the top left of every
page where it is most effective
- explain your site with a tagline - a brief statement telling
people what your organisation does - and place it
near the logo
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first impressions count so choose colours and fonts carefully
- they have a huge impact and can easily put people off
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get to the point - tell visitors who you are, what you do and what
they’ll gain from the site
- be credible, back up facts - specify where information came from
Your site has to be quick or visitors will not stay.
It should take less than 10 seconds for your site to load, any
longer and
you will lose traffic. Every aspect of each page must be designed
with speed in mind.
- keep your homepage under 50K in size (35K each extra
page)
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don’t use too many graphics or multimedia effects and keep
them small when you do
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optimise your images properly– optimisation is a method
of reducing image file sizes yet retaining their essence
- use CSS - cascading style sheets - to
reduce the page file size but ensure the page still looks OK
when CSS is turned off.
Keep the design simple. Don’t clutter the
pages with colour or movement – it only takes emphasis away
from the content.
- use white-space to separate sections, it makes the text more prominent
and is easy on the eye
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avoid ‘flash’, ‘java’ and ‘javascript’ intro’s,
not everyone has the correct plugins installed – many
of those who do skip the intro anyway
- use one design throughout the site, keep navigation, fonts and
colour consistent
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group similar items together in sections, don’t mix them
up all over the page
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Jakob Nielson
Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant. He writes a fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on web design matters and has published several books on the subject of web design.
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