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What are the key skills in designing a website? What are the traps? Here, the world's leading web design experts, let you share their secrets, tell you: The secret to make the site fun, what should be avoided, what tools should be used and their favorite and offensive sites.
01 Explicit Content
If you want to be a website designer and want to build a website, you should first consider the content of the site, including the site features and what your users need. Your entire design should revolve around these aspects.
02 Seize the user
If the user is not able to quickly enter your site, or the operation is not convenient, the site design is a failure. Don't let the user down and turn to your opponent's website.
03 Content Optimization
Content is the core. About two years ago, the corporate web site was like a brochure, and even worse, the site used a lot of pictures, it seems to take several centuries to download the end.
04 Fast Download
Nothing is more bad than spending a lot of time downloading pages. As an experience, a standard Web page should be less than 60K and take 30 seconds to load through a 56K modem. Some designers say web pages should be loaded in 15 seconds.
05 Website Upgrades
Always pay attention to the operation of the website. Well-performing hosts may run slowly as the number of visitors increases. However, if you don't want to lose your visitors, be sure to plan your upgrade plan carefully. 06 Adherence to Basic principles
Even if you don't understand HTML, you can create a Web site that looks reasonable by simply buying a copyrighted, WYSIWYG web design tool, such as Adobe Pagemill or Microsoft FrontPage Express. However, at design time, these packages do not require HTML, but they slow down the Web site.
To successfully design a Web site, you must understand how HTML works. Most web designers suggest that Web novices should look for answers in HTML books and use Notepad to make Web pages.
07 Learning HTML
With HTML design site, you can control the whole process of design. But if you're just a novice in web design, you should look for a package that allows you to modify HTML. HomeSite4 is a great web design tool. In the design process, HOMESITE4 can help you learn HTML. It also allows you to switch to WYSIWYG mode so that you can preview your site before sending it to the Web.
08 the frame of a Web site with strokes
Sage Cloud: Pens are more powerful than swords. Before using a computer, use the frame of a Web site to show the interrelationships of all pages. Plan how your users can browse your site at the least amount of time.
09 "Never find a good solution on a computer." --Expert advice
10 Site Map
Many designers put their site map on the site, which does more harm than good. The vast majority of visitors who surf the web are looking for special information, and they have no interest in how your site works. If you think your site needs a map, it's likely that you need to improve your navigation and sidebar.
11 "Open your eyes and pay attention to all the things." Observation of the least relevant things can get the best inspiration. Observe the structure and design of a site. Understand the key elements of the site structure to ensure that your design is around the site browsing. "--Expert advice
12 Click Rule
Ever heard of a 3-click rule? For small Web sites, there is no single message on your home page that needs to be clicked more than 3 times. For large web sites, use navigation and sidebar to improve operations.
13 Application of special fonts
Although you can use special fonts in your HTML, you can't predict what your visitors will see on their computers. A page that looks pretty good on your computer may look very bad on another platform. Some web designers like to use to define features, which allows you to use special fonts, but you still need some workarounds to avoid the fonts you choose from appearing on your visitors ' computers. Cascading style sheet CSS helps solve these problems, but only the latest version of the browser supports CSS.
14 "Use practical and simple naming rules." "--Expert advice
15 Check Typos
Good spelling is an important skill in people's life. Unfortunately, many designers lack this skill. Make sure you spell it correctly, and pay special attention to typos that are usually easily misunderstood.
16 Avoid long text pages
There are a lot of text-only pages on a site that are tedious and waste the potential of the web. If you have a large number of text-based documents, you should place them in Adobe Acrobat format so that your visitors can read them offline.
17 Do not use roll bar
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18 Expert's favorite web design tools
1.Adobe Photoshop
2.Macromedia Flash
3.Adobe Illustrator
4.Adobe Imageread
5.Dreamweaver
6.Macromedia Fireworks
7. Allaire Homesites
8.Microsoft Notepad
9. Macromedia Director
Lightwave
Macromedia Freehand.
12. Others: Adobe Acrobat exchange,allaire coldfusion,bbedit,html Validator.
19 Website Introduction
You should have a very clear introduction to the website and tell visitors what your site can offer so that visitors can find what they want. However, many designers have not done so. Effective navigation bars and search tools make it easy to find useful information, which is important to visitors. Tell your visitors that what you are offering is exactly what they want.
20 "website once released, the advantages and disadvantages of website design are all published in the world." There is no way you can learn more than your own mistakes, listening to other people's advice, and feedback from users. "--Expert advice
21 flashes make a person headache
Using logos can draw visitors ' attention to a particular part of your home page, but it also gives your visitors a headache. If you want to make your visitors patronize your site again, use this method less.
22 Background color
Background colors can also create problems that can make a Web page difficult to read. You should stick with the white background and black text, and you should also stick with the generic font.
23 Forward and Backward buttons
You should avoid forcing users to use the forward and backward buttons. Your design should enable users to quickly find what they want. Most good sites have the same navigation bar on every page, allowing viewers to access any part of the site from each page.
24 "stick to your convictions." Strict adherence to various rules. Avoid being taken for granted. Never stop learning. "--Expert advice
25 Click Registers
Don't easily consider placing a striking click Register on your site. You design a website to serve visitors, not to sell what you think is important. Most viewers think the counter is meaningless, they are easy to fake, and browsers don't want to see ads. If you show how popular your site is, you'd better provide a link to show access logs.
26 Do not use the frame
As with registers, frames are becoming more popular on Web pages. On most Web sites, there is a frame on the left side of the screen. But the designers immediately discovered that there were many problems in using the framework. When using frames, it is almost impossible to display the entire site without a 17-inch display. The framework also makes it possible to bookmark personal pages within a site. Perhaps more importantly, the search engine is often confused by the framework, which makes it impossible to list your site.
27 Remove the image
Even if you remove the image function in the browser, you should ensure that visitors can achieve satisfactory results on your website. For those visitors who use ISDN connections and turn off the image feature, they also get good web load performance. You can meet your visitors ' needs by providing additional links at the bottom of the page and using alternate text instead of images.
28 using images repeatedly
Some websites miss the chance to use better techniques because they use a lot of images that are not duplicated. When creating a trademark, it is a good way to use the same image multiple times on a Web page, and once they are loaded, they will soon be loaded again.
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29 Avoid using images that are too large
Do not use images that span the entire screen. Prevent visitors from scrolling the screen to the right. The screen width of 75% is a good suggestion.
30 "Avoid the use of ostentatious skills. "--Expert advice
31 Choose to use Flash animation
Many visitors who use slow computers find that animated icons can easily deplete system resources and make it difficult for the site to operate, so users should be given a choice to skip using Flash animations.
32 use Flash plugin as little as possible
Although many web designers think flash is powerful, and Netscape5.0 will support Flash, there is no need to download any plug-ins when you use it. However, it is best to cancel the idea of using Flash as an interface. 33 Let users preview small images if you have to place large images on the site, it is best to use thumbnails software, the image of the reduced version of the preview display, so that users do not have to waste money and time to download the large image they do not want to see.
34 animation and content should be organically combined
Make sure animations and content are associated. They should be seamless with the web, not dry. Animation is not just a simple accumulation of things made by Macromedia Director.
35 careful use of sound
The use of sound should also be vigilant. Inline sounds are another forbidden territory for web designers. Because too much use of sound can slow down the download, while not giving visitors much of the benefit. It may be fun to hear the mouse sound for the first time, but it will be annoying after many times. Before using sound, you should think carefully about what your voice will bring you.
36 Less Java and Axtivex
Use Java and Axtivex as little as possible on your Web page. Because not every browser needs to use it, only those earlier versions of Netscape and explorer need it. In addition, Mac in the processing of Java is also problematic, excessive use of Java, will make the Mac crashes.