The Web Design Myths

If your site has been around for a while, then you would have probably visited by the "Web Design Police" (people who have a lot of time on their hands). In fact, depending on your site, you may have visited the various branches of these people, both to policy advocates have been. I just received an email from one of my visitors, which apparently had been "helped" by some of these people, and thought that an article is appropriate on two of the myths of web design.
1 The Myth of "Content is King, no animation / sound / Java / etc"
The adage that "Content is King" applies to all sites, and I'm not denying it know that is true, that when you add sound, animations, Java applets, and many graphics that takes your web page a long time to load, and some of your visitors may not bother to invite to wait, they will just go away.
However, put the two together really do not mean that all pages with animation, sound, and applets necessarily bad. The trick is to know when they are appropriate and to make the download speed as fast as it is reasonably possible under the circumstances. I want some ways to lower your graphics and animation file sizes later in this article.
When is it appropriate? Sometimes applets for some type of processing is required – for example, the Sesame Street Web site shows a Java applet that dancing Elmo (a Sesame Street character), and the child can use the mouse to "tickle" Elmo and his " ll react depending on where it tickled. The applet takes forever to load on a 56K modem, but you can not say that it is out of place: The website is aimed at young children who are there to . Playing in this case, the applet an appropriate solution. It could also be animation and sound for web sites, online comics, online games, etc.
Feature In fact, if you a website, website design services sold, which means that they make people pay you want their corresponding Web site, it is in your interest not on your site simple. Many potential customers see your website as an example of what may be their website. It makes no sense says "Content is King" is not enough at this time – they will long to hear your claim. Such sites need a certain set of colors, graphics, etc, but of course it does take too long to load, would also be a deterrent effect on your potential customers.
Like all things, depends on how you design your website from your subject and your audience. Keep in mind the main rule and everything will be fine.
2 The myth of the "Good Design Web is in the graphic"
At the other end of the scale are people who believe that a good website must have lots of color, graphics, animation and sound. One could meet them, to example in the form of newcomers or professionals who either do not much real world or web experience, the only surf T1 connections came.
My first encounter with such people in the form of an old friend, who exhibited his personal website proud of me. In the center of his home was a large, animated graphics, that was a few hundred kilobytes in size. The graphics feature had little on this page – it did not provide any explanatory power: it was not a logo, nor was it a photo of himself own, view or a picture, or nothing at all. It was purely decorative. At that time (many years ago), I had to load with a 14th-4K modem and the page took forever.
Now I do not understand wrong. Decorative graphics on a page are in order. you make a page to look more comfortable, and read it sooner. But you should at least make them as small as possible. While I hesitate a hard and fast rules about how big such Graphics should be a decorative graphics that give a few hundred kilobytes in size, I'm definitely too large to be tolerated.
3 Some Page Design Tips
If your concern is that Your page should look like, without too slowly loaded well, here are a few commonly used tricks, should consider:
Do not be too much text in one big block. Separate them out and put in paragraph white space between paragraphs. This makes the text look more readable.
like colored pages? That's okay, but generally, if the readability of the text is important to you, a white background with black text works best. < br /> If you need to have a colored background, make sure you try your page by to see it in resolutions such as 256 colors, if the page looks good. A colored page that looks good on your 32 -bit color dithering system can make your text hard to read lesser settings.
If you are the Web sites of large companies (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) check to see that they still prefer a white background with black text on their core text. These companies probably have more resources for testing the usability of their web site than you have, so it might not be wise to make fun of their design too fast.