Design practices for the web

Designing a website is very important because it is the letter of your business that will fall into the hands of thousands of potential customers. They will judge your business and decide whether or not it is interesting just for the design of your website, whether or not your products are interesting. Knowing this, how can companies continue to spend money without your site?

When you enter a website that is the value that a user does:

FIRST IMPRESSION: This time I have to say that if the first impression matters, and much!. The opinion is formed in seconds, making a positive impression is crucial because users are very quick to get out of a site that has not immediately impressed.
Besides the design, good well-chosen photographs can help to attract attention.

Charging time: The connections have improved a lot lately, but that did not remove sites that are still too heavy or overworked connections. If a site takes to load the user is, as simple as that. It is advisable that a site does not exceed 100kb, we know that is often difficult, but it is better to know the information distributed on several pages that have a light heavy with all the information. Moreover it will always be a more usable web extructurada well.

EASE OF READING OF CONTENTS: Sources sufficiently readable size, good contrast between background and font color, a division of text into paragraphs by ideas, etc … We have to make pleasant reading, highlighting the important ideas in headlines and subheads, using either the bold and not make paragraphs too long. It is very important to select the words of a headline or a caption, and a caption.
The architecture of the page itself is very important, the number of columns, the distribution of information, knowledge about what to emphasize how important secondary ….

NAVIGATION: Once you have successfully captured the attention of the user, we have to make it easy to browse our website, with a menu visible and intuitive, making it always know where you are, very careful with the pages which are not dead you leave. An added tip is to put internal links within the text of the page.
Never know where a user is going to come, so we have to think that any of the web page can be home at that time, so we can not afford to break browsing on any page, it can be the gateway many users.
A good navigation will help to increase the number of pages to view our website.

TITLE HELP: There are several elements that may be helpful to the user, for example, put a descriptive title of the page when the user makes the target page to favorites, within two months when you can immediately see the inside of their favorites. Also, when browsing in various browsers, the page title is what you see in the window minimized, it is also important to put the important words at the top of the title.

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