PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD WEBSITE DESIGN

Designing a creating, attractive, user-friendly and multifunctional website that can attract traffic to the site is the ultimate aim of almost every web designer. To create a website like this requires illustrative graphics, designs, internal navigating keys, logical layouts and a user friendly, brief and easy to go through content. Following points in general, serves guidance for creating a good web design.
Web Content
Whether your website is providing information or selling the product of your or some other company. It requires a good content to present itself. A user browses internet to gather information and that information is provided by your content. Use of poor content can force the traffic to navigate away from your website. On the other hand, the content also should not be too technical to understand. Try to be as simple as you can be. Hosted Exchange
The design of your website should be made keeping in mind about different browsers. There are more than 100 browsers used over the world. Many browsers do not support the special effects which you may want to use. Your website should be compatible to work on different browsers.

HTML code validation can help, although, the trial tests on different browsers are recommended. For the least, your website should work on the widely used browsers namely Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Graphics and Photos Web Hosting
A logger will not wait if the web page takes too long to open and will navigate away from the page. Therefore, in order to make your website perform better, there is a need to manage your photos and graphics in a way that it keeps your website on a lighter side.
Using height and width options for a picture can help a great deal enabling other page to be loaded while the graphic files tend to load. Using the ALT HTML tag for the users who are in ‘graphic turned off’ is a good option.
Background Colors
Using anything other than white as background color requires an essentiality of applying link colors. Otherwise, the browser defaults can make them unreadable.
Multimedia
Using streaming media for your multimedia tools like flash movies, video clips, and audio clips is important as using stream source reduces downloading time. Moreover, a user should be allowed to start, stop and even skip the multimedia files, it will enhance the user not supporting multimedia can ignore your tools.
A download link for a plug-in can also be placed, if your multimedia requires it. However, keep a check that your website doesn’t get heavy.
Site Navigation
Site navigation is highly important as it avoids a user to get lost. Navigation makes him where he is and where he wants to go. A website should enable a short navigation within a area. A trail is also very useful which describes the path of the user.
Links and Frames
Checking out the validity of the links is also essential. Broken links results in visitors navigating away from the websites. Furthermore, avoid using frames as they avoid the people to bookmark the pages, which is really important to allow so they can navigate back to your website.