Top 25 Web Design Tips How to desing Simple Web site
kumara swamy
comes right down to it, it's all "design" now, since we are talking
about a (hopefully) cohesive unit, a well-crafted Web site. If it
works well, you will do well. If not, you won't. That's simple, and
keeping things simple really is the best kind of design.
Among these examples are tips for cosmetics, content and
functionality. Even if you've already built your site, you can use
this list as a means of "tweaking" and "refining" your approach. Only
if you have broken every conceivable rule of design and Web strategy
would you need to dump your entire site and start from scratch. It is
likely you could just start cleaning things up a bit, and work your
way from 1 to 25 in no time-then find the list that takes you from 26
to 1,001, or perhaps a million. There are a lot of ways to commit faux
pas in a virtual workplace!
Helmut Richter
> That's simple, and
> keeping things simple really is the best kind of design.
> [...]
> http://www.simplewebdesigning.com/
A nice compilation, albeit certainly not new.
I second all statements about simplicity. I have just returned from a trip
to a far-away country, not taking my own computer with me, and I found
*very* different opportunities for using the Web for planning my trip
(enquiring about places to visit, booking flights and hiring cars). An
extreme case was the low-speed-connected laptop of a Japanese young lady
who had configured the system to her native tongue (neither am I Japanese
not was Japan the country I was visiting), and it was an interesting
experience to see websites trying to open literally tens of pop-up
windows, in the average half of them in Japanese. Unwanted assistance for
filling out forms can be a nightmare when you are not on your own system
which you have configured for your needs -- which is hardly the case in
Internet cafes. Thanks to all Web designers who did not use more features
for forms than what has been standard ordinary HTML for 10 years now --
there I could just type in what was asked instead of waiting for special
effects designed for other browsers or other speeds. *Several* vendors
made their Web sites inaccessible by timeouts: they did not reckon with
people who were forced *by them* to wait up to five minutes until all the
page was built-up over a slow line, and closed the session in the
meantime. Gotchas was another popular means of excluding prospective
customers.
More than once, I had to book at the most Web-accessible airline or
car-rental company, not necssarily the one with the best service or the
lowest price. Web-interface simplicity can thus be a major factor for
business. Since that experience, I consider it a design bug not to offer a
simple interface (standard HTML, no *dependence* (usage yes, dependence
no) on style-sheets, no Javascript, nothing moving, graphics only where
needed for a purpose, straightforward page layout) at least as an option
for those who want to *use* the site's function instead of being amazed by
its wondrous design.
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Helmut Richter
Manuel Collado
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, kumara swamy wrote:
>
>> That's simple, and
>> keeping things simple really is the best kind of design.
>> [...]
>
>> http://www.simplewebdesigning.com/
>
> A nice compilation, albeit certainly not new.
I agree, but ...
Keep things as simple as possible, ... but not simpler. The central pane
of the page has neither margin nor padding, so it is not easy to read
the beginning/end of each line. Quoting yourself:
"5. Everything counts,..."
Reagrds.
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Malcolm Dew-Jones
: Helmut Richter escribi�:
: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, kumara swamy wrote:
: >
: >> That's simple, and
: >> keeping things simple really is the best kind of design.
: >> [...]
: >
: >> http://www.simplewebdesigning.com/
: >
: > A nice compilation, albeit certainly not new.
: I agree, but ...
: Keep things as simple as possible, ... but not simpler. The central pane
: of the page has neither margin nor padding, so it is not easy to read
: the beginning/end of each line. Quoting yourself:
: "5. Everything counts,..."
The page uses fixed widths, that's the thing I hate the most. I'm using a
small asus computer right now, works very well, but pages such as that one
can't be easily read because they hard code the width and the text is
wider than the space on the display.
Also, I don't see the right hand buttons at all (!). If anything
important was there then I wouldn't know it.
David E. Ross
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, kumara swamy wrote:
>
>> That's simple, and
>> keeping things simple really is the best kind of design.
>> [...]
>
>> http://www.simplewebdesigning.com/
>
One very important item missing from the list -- possibly more important
than anything else on the list -- is that Web pages should comply with
the W3C specifications. Of course, it's easily understood why that was
omitted since the cited page has 8 HTML errors. Among other things, it
seems to mix HTML and XHTML syntax.
The page also violates its own #10 and #25:
#10. "Always include your contact details." I can't find any contact
information.
#25. "Make sure visitors can search your entire website." The page has
neither a search capability or an obvious link to a search page.
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David Quinton
<swamyku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>A list of "Web site mistakes" could go on forever,
#26
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.simplewebdesigning.com/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0
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