IL2006: Keynote: 5 Basic Web Design Tips

Shari Thurow of Grantastic Designs shared a zillion different tips for web design.

The 5 Basic Rules of Web Design are:

-easy to read: HTML, text and graphics, animations shouldn’t be moving too fast and have a good font

-easy to navigate: know where they are at on your site at all times (sense of place), because most people won’t get to your site from the home page; scent of information: need to be able to click on a site map or home page button so they can find where they are

-easy to find -shows up in appropriate location in search engine results.

-consistent in layout and design: communicates trust, reliability

-quick to download: general rule is that majority of a page should download within 30 seconds (average)

-All of above rules are interrelated: people won’t wait for video to download, so if your #1 position in Google will be wasted.