Principles of Basic Web Designing

Internet marketing professionals were able to define and enumerate the basic web design principles so that anyone who would like to venture on web designing can, at least, have ideas how to plan and how to start web designing the right way.

Homepage: Since homepage is representative of what your website is all about, you have to clearly present your goals so that the visitors would know what to do. Top level navigation on the first page should be indicated as well as the logo. By telling the visitors what they can find in your website is the most important thing. Calling the visitors’ attention through information is the best way of making them stay aside from the visual appeal of the page. It is on the homepage that visitors would decide what to do such as clicking some links or leave it. If you want to put flash on your homepage, put “Skip Into” option and should be outside the flash. Or else, you are forcing the web visitors to wait until flash is loaded. This is a big turn off on the part of the internet users. Flash can be visually appealing depending on what it presents, but generally it is distracting.

Structure of Navigation: The navigation structure should be place on the specific area of the page where the internet users can easily find it. Navigational structure’s location on the page is standard and should be experimented just to give uniqueness on your website. Let your layout and design be responsible for the uniqueness of your site. So, it is better to keep your navigation system same on all pages to avoid confusion on the part of the web visitors. Just like what you do in writing, be consistent in all aspects such as in putting up your site navigation.

More principles of basic web designing is tackled here: “Web Designing Principles“