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12 Essential Web Site Design Tips
Web site usability and presentation is perhaps the most important factor in any web design. This is the driving factor that gives your visitors a positive, professional impression of your company and keeps them coming back to your website. This...
Beyond Web usability: Web credibility
Web usability: It's old news If you've been developing websites on Mars for the past few years then you'll be forgiven for not knowing about web usability. You'll still be creating splash intro pages, having pages with massive download times and...
Building Your Own Web Site? Here are Two Critical Points to Consider
First let's look at site planning. Your web site does not have to be grandiose and packed with text. Organizing the flow of your site content is more important, wasting your time agonizing over what picture or size of logo to place on the top...
How To Create A Website In Less Than A Week
Here's a really simple way... any novice can create a fully functional website in less than a week.
Websites are the wave of the future. Although many companies are using an online presence to drive business to their brick and mortar stores,...
Web Designers Beware!
As a web designer, I have a personal interest in a new trend which threatens to put me and my kind out of business. That “threat” is Web Design Templates. In short they are ready-made web design products which can be used as a basis for a fast and...
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Mobile Accessibility - Your website in the year 2005
Throughout 2004 the number of web enabled portable devices boomed. By “portable devices" I mean PDAs and smart phones. What does this mean for you? Well it depends whether or not you care about your visitors’ experience - you build your website for visitors so you really should!
Nokia, Vodafone, Microsoft and others have already applied to ICANN for the new TLD (Top Level Domain) .mobi. If the new TLD is accepted not only will this create hundreds more “domain for sale” sites but it will also help mobile users find optimized pages.
When a website optimized for a desktop computer is viewed on a small screen, the horizontal scrollbars are usually stretched by the header and footer, inevitably this means the textual content area is also stretched. "Fit to screen" on Pocket PCs shrinks images on the page and attempts to display the text on one screen without horizontal scrollbars.
There is no need to create a whole new site dedicated for mobile users, as not only would that be time consuming it is also unnecessary, due to mobile browsers being able to render most code without problems. Simply make your new site with a more logical, clean appearance. You should avoid relying on drop down menus for navigation as they use “mouse over” and JavaScript which doesn’t necessarily work.
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building your website I recommend that you use a top header with a horizontal menu underneath - preferably not made from images as the user may have selected not to view images. If you must use images for navigation remember to add alt tags. If your content area uses columns be sure that the main contents are on the left. The “fit to screen” function will move the text to the left hand side saving the visitor from having to scroll. The footer should contain a link to the top of the page in the form of an anchor tag. A link to your sitemap is important as it allows visitors to reach the information they want quickly.
Optimize your images as usual in GIF/JPEG formats. Testing your website is vital before you fully launch to the public, try viewing your site with a number of different devices. If the browser is able, use "fit to screen" and view the page without images. It doesn't have to be perfect just as long as you can easily navigate all your pages and view the content without scrolling.
About the Author
Philip Wylie is the CEO of PWnet, a company offering web solutions to all types of business. For more information visit www.pwnet.org.uk or to contact him email philip.wylie@pwnet.org.uk.
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