How to Build a Great Website
It seems that everyone these days is putting up their own website. However, nearly no one besides the professionals actually manages to build a great website. Unfortunately, most people are not aware of some of the tools and methods that can help build a great website; read on to find out how to take advantage of some of this "insider" information.
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Use a color scheme with only a few colors. There's hardly anything that makes a website more amateur than when a page looks like a rainbow. Good color schemes create unity within the different pages of your website, so they are essential for a good design.
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Resize all the pictures on your website before you upload them. Half the time, when people navigate to a website with enormous pictures, they leave before the site can even load. Those with slower connections have a hard enough time loading websites with small pictures, let alone those with very high resolutions.
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Create an easy navigation system for your website. This is usually done by creating a nav-bar that can be found on every page of the site. This prevents users from getting lost, and is very helpful for finding the content they are looking for. Web users will come back to your website if it pleases them in a user-friendly way.
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Don't use gif animations. These annoying pictures clog up a website's design and make it look completely amateurish. This is the first thing a website reviewer will look for. If the site has animations like this, its scores go way down.
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Do not scatter hyperlinks throughout your body text. Users want to read your content, then navigate to something else. They don't want to stop reading every other sentence and navigate to another page. Take the flow and usability of your website content into consideration.
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Tips & Warnings
Let your own creativity and design flow, but know your limits. Try not to go overboard and put in too many bells and whistles.
Always use your own work when making publishable content like websites.
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