Web Design Articles – Explanations, Tips and Checklists

Images help understanding, break up the text and make it easier for the reader. All excellent reasons for using images but they slow websites down and page download speed matters. It is important to understand the good and bad ways to use images on your website.

Websites are changing rapidly. Are you aware of the changes that have gone on recently and how they affect your website? Is your site keeping up?

New website launched: Here is a list of essential post-launch activities that will help make your new website a success.

This website checklist is to help you plan your new site. It will help you prepare the structure and content of your website. It gives you a thorough basis for preparing your thoughts and ideas so you can brief a web designer or build your own site.

There are many DIY website builders available. This article is to give the inexperienced website DIYer some guidance on making the right choice for their website project.

Unnecessarily large images are often the reason a website is slow. Typically photos are far too large (in terms of height and width) and also too big (in terms of file sizes) to use directly on a website. They need to be optimised.

If you are not sure your website is any good. Here are some things you can look as a basic review of your own site to give you a better idea.

Responsive design means the web page responds to the device screen size. Resulting in dynamic layout and appearance changes to suit the screen size of the device viewing the website. So you might get different layouts on each of a desktop, tablet and mobile.

Thinking of setting up an ecommerce on-line shop then here is an extensive checklist of things you will need to think about.

Testimonials are powerful tools in building trust plus other tips on trust building on your website

Build trust – Make it easy for people to contact you. So many sites only post limited contact information – what does this imply to you – perhaps they do not want you to contact them? Why?

Every time you send out an email perhaps that is an opportunity to do some subtle marketing within your email signature.

A web site is essential to any serious business these days but it is a significant cost so how do you get the maximum benefit out of your investment? For some companies the cost/benefit analysis is clear. For others it is more difficult to find enough tangible benefits to offset the cost.

A graphic designer has millions of options with print – almost unlimited variations in fonts, colours and layout options. Unfortunately only a tiny fraction of these options are available to web designers – so the web severely restricts your creativity.