Deciding on a Type of website
What type of websites to make? Graphics, music, tutorials, personal or anything else. Want some helpful tips? Go on reading.
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What type of websites to make? Graphics, music, tutorials, personal or anything else. Want some helpful tips? Go on reading.
First impression: First impression is very important. A clear navigation and a soft on eyes layout is perfect.
Colors: Don't choose bright colors. Try to avoid pink and glitter. The colors I highly recommend you to use are green and blue. They are very calming and refreshing. Avoid contrasting colors, too (red/green, blue/orange, yellow/purple).
Fonts: I tend to use 11px Verdana very often. Other fonts that are nice and easy to read: Century Gothic, Trebuchet MS, Arial, Times New Roman.
What layout should I make? Dividers, it's so simple to use. Tables are for advanced web designers, I-frames are useful if you want to display the same navigation on each page, you don't have to edit all pages. It is also useful if you have a music player/background music and don't want to reload every time your visitors jump to another page.Decent knowledge... of HTML/CSS and design. Try not to use Paint for your graphics. Bad quality images are a big down for your site.
Originality: Don't try to copy other's ideas. Use your own imagination to create a stunning layout and eye-catching graphics.
Quality over quantity: Doesn't matter if you have one hundred pages that aren't important at all. Right?
No slang! Do not wRiTe Lyk ThIS. It is very annoying! And it is not as cool as it sounds.
Page you should have: A Contact Me page, Terms of Use (if you have a graphics site, especially). Try to keep your visitors entertained with some games, plugboards, awards, tagboards etcetera.
Update frequently! It is very important to maintain your website. Improve it by updating at least once per month.
Leave nice comments on other's tagboard. People will visit your website and leave you a comment, too.
In addition to this, you could join some link exchanges/rotations. By doing this, you will get more visitors on your website. One of the most popular sites is X-tenshi Rotation. Also try Absolutely Precious.