Really Helpful Tips In Designing Tips for both webmasters and designers

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I am not going to have internet connect for a week or two, so just to keep my account active and running here is some really useful stuff I though you might be interested in! Its basically about some webmaster/designer tips. Keep these in mind when ever you are designing your site. It will prove very effective. This is through my personal advice.

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Thats it guys, finsihed. Hope these dum tips I mentioned above will work for you. I will keep posting as soon as I recharge my internet account. I dont think that there is a penny left in my ISP account.

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One of the biggest problems I have with some Web sites, whether professional or personal, is that some people go nuts with graphics. Not everybody has a super-high-speed connection. And even those of us who *do* have good access don't necessarily want to see half a gig's worth of images loading. (Okay, that's an exaggeration but you get the idea.)That and Flash intros. Most designers put in a "skip intro" option because, oops, we don't care about it and want to get to the actual content. Many of the intros are very pretty and skillfully done, but I skip them anyway. They're unnecessary and don't bring me any closer to the real reason I'm visiting a site.*steps off soapbox*Okay. *grins* I'm done.

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I think following two points, as raised in the first post by Ganeshn, require some more discussion.

 

#1Providing what your visitors want to see.

 

#2They are not looking for fancy dancing graphics and cool flash designs. They are looking for information.

So far as #1 is concerned, it is absolutely correct to say that a good webpublisher offers only what the visitors want to see.

Now let us come to the Point#2. The visitors are looking for information, and it is also correct. But the information may not compulsorily be textual always as a rule. It may also be an image or graphics design that they are looking for.

 

Based on that, I have tried to classify websites into three categories.

1) Sites that provide textual information.

2) Sites that provide information by means of images and graphics.

3) A blending of the above two category.

 

Sites that provide textual information:

These are the websites whose webpages contain mostly textual information.

Sites on SEO tools and techniques, sites that provide different Webhosting services, sites on tutorials on different subjects such as, scripting/programming languages, are good example of this category.

 

For example: Take a quick look at a good website that provides information on SEO toolset Webconfs.com . And as per your expectation it contains only textual information. Needless to say, the visitors of this website never expect to see fancy scripts in this site as well.

A site containing tutorials on different programming and scripting languages like Page Resource.com also contains mostly textual information, and for obvious reason, this site is also very much useful for its visitors.

 

2) Sites that provide information by means of images and graphics:

 

These are the websites that rarely use textual content. Rather, they rely havily on images and graphics to convey the infomation to its visitors.

Although the number of websites belonging to this category is also large, but at present we can take the case of a site such as Flower Pictures.net , containing thousands of pictures of flowers. Its visitors are, actually searching for picture of flowers ( for the reason only they can tell!) and not dull textual description of flowers!

 

Also we can take the case of PopCap.com, a good games site, whose home page itself contains images of different games.

 

3) A blending of the above two category

 

It will be fair enough to say that a large number of websites are just keeping a balance between the textual information and images.

Just see this website on West Bengal tourism. It contains images as well as textual information.

Sites relating to scientific publications, research works, field studies, medical and technical journals do not seem to have any other alternative means to explain and establish the concepts. These websites usually contain textual information with supporting images (Just like a good book!).

 

So, in fine, we can see that point#1 is the biggest factor for deciding the content of your webpages. You have to offer your visitor exactly what they want to see, be it textual content, images, fancy scripts or animations. But the top most priority should be given to relevance. It must go with the theme of your website and it must not be anything extra or odd that will annoy your visitors ( recall second post )!

 

 

Regards,

Sid

Edited May 4, 2006 by sid.calcutta (see edit history)

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3) A blending of the above two category

 

It will be fair enough to say that a large number of websites are just keeping a balance between the textual information and images.

Just see this website on West Bengal tourism. It contains images as well as textual information.

Sites relating to scientific publications, research works, field studies, medical and technical journals do not seem to have any other alternative means to explain and establish the concepts. These websites usually contain textual information with supporting images (Just like a good book!).

 

This is exaclty what I was trying to convey. Nothing more or nothing less. Sites like these will really come up in their future. One more thing I would like to tell is that having too many images (more than required) on site the is quite bearable, but having flash, videos, sound is not nesscary at all. Yes, I dont go completely against what I just said but but if that side really needs something like video conferencing or if the site hosts muisc is ok, thats because you want those stuff, as I said in my earlier post, visitors should have what they need. So if your visitor needs it give it. But not that you should have those dum music going on the background, you dont even know its going on as most of the visitors on the web come online with their speakers/headphones off until and unless the want to listen to something.

 

What I want to tell is that try keeping the download time of your site is the second factor you must keep in mind. (The first one being the content)

 

Now lets go on to some more tutorials

 

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Thats it for now, anyway I wrote this when I was in class when my teacher was blabering on some boring topic like area and perimeter, sheesh, why dont other students get them faster. I really expected more posts than how much I am receving on this topic, its a really debative topic and I cant understand why no one is bothered about it.

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.....its a really debative topic and I cant understand why no one is bothered about it....

I agree with you totally, it is a debatable topic and with different clean-up drives that Google and other SE Co. are taking up every now and then, it has an ever green relevance.
But regarding tips on designing, we seem to be more focussed on the content and to some extent on the layout. But I have not seen many on few more fundamental issues like color scheme to choose and implement.
I believe that there must be some color-rule ( or color-grammer) that need be explained in much detail with examples. I, personally, try to use scripts to do everything for my website and really keep on guessing about what color will be the most appropriate one for my table header or like that.
What I mean is that a site for Research Work can't have flashing colors. Most of the time, so far as color goes you have to rely on your own views. There is no harm in doing so if you have that vision, but what I intend to say is that, there must be some guideline for using colors, font size and all.
If you know any link that can suggest color, font size and some other more fundamental aspect of web-design, please let us know that.
Regards,
Sid