As an important part in advertising a business, the process of website design can be really challenging to the webmaster or designer engaging in it. There are certain things that a web design specialist must not overindulge. Doing more than what is needed may bring negative returns and create a business loss.
1. Don’t use too many colors in the website
Keep the website’s color scheme limited to a couple of colors and keep it consistent across the website unless you want to denote a major section.
2. Don’t have more than a few words in italics, bold or in capitals
All these are ways to draw attention to text, but they make text harder to read. It’s OK if it refers to particular words but if you’re making everything the same, it loses its impact.
3. Don’t use <h5> and <h6> tags
These tags make the text smaller than the browsers default size and make it bold, which results in text that is really hard to read.
4. Do use the ‘alt’ tag
Alternate text is used by text only browsers. Do put meaningful information in ‘alt’ tag as text only browsers are used by the blind to surf the web. The alternative text will also help you with the search engines.
5. Do end the URLs with a forward slash in your links
By adding the forward slash you remove a step that otherwise the web server and browser would have to take; removing this extra step can give you a speed boost.
6. Do make the images that look like buttons act like buttons
In order not to confuse your visitors you must not create graphics that look like buttons but that aren’t in fact buttons.
