Design 101 - Tips to making a better website

Designing a good web site is not an easy task. A lot of thought has to be put into designing a professional looking website which is easy to navigate, visually appealing to users and effectively conveys your statement. Add to that cross-browser compatibility problems, keeping download size small for 28.8K modem users, catering to the needs of visually or physically challenged people and even the whims of your target audience, web designers definitely have a hard time.

Then you get your site up and running but find that no one is visiting it. You start to rue the day you decided to ignore optimizing your site for search engines.

Here, we provide a few design tips to make life easier for you.

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