3 April 2009
Designing a website is not enough, a professional website should be simple, eye cachy, and well formated.

Graphics and layout is the first impression of your website. The designing should be simple well coded and lucid.
The color scheme expresses the characters of your website and makes it unique and attractive. Choose carefully a set of colors for background & text. While choosing, remember to use dark against light. In other words, use light text against a dark background or dark text against a light background.

Your web page size should be light weight. Web page size is defined by the total size of text, images and supporting files (including JavaScript, flash etc.) within the page download from the server. So, try to keep the size of a web page small by keeping less use of bulky contents such as video, audio, flash animations etc, which slow down the display of the page.

Typography is one of the most important parts of a website. Contents on the webpage make your website very professional or very unprofessional. The standard fonts used on the Internet are Arial and Verdana as are easiest for computer screen.

Layout the page with divisions, and set the width in percentage terms (100% to window size) instead of a fixed number of pixels. That way the content of the page will be flexible with changes in browser window size, without the need to scroll horizontally. The content of professional website should be in bulleted or numbered list with direct to the point in short paragraphs, as long blocks of text passages can be boring for reader. It should give clear intention of the web pages.

Navigation on your website should be well organized, easy to detect by using appropriate colors. Underline your links & use a different color for visited links, put a link to your homepage on all your internal pages. Provide text navigation links at the bottom of long pages, so users don't need to scroll back up.).