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How should I design my website and web pages?
Design and Planning
Use this as a checklist to develop your site, page or any part of your web presence
- Define the purpose - this is most important
- Think about what you want the site/page to do and how to achieve it
- Define the audience
- Increase promotion effectiveness - who is going to visit your site?
- Plan the content
- Typography choices, video, pictures, not too much text, etc.
- Plan the navigation, 3 clicks or less
- Create a clear, concise path to the information
- Plan the pages, what is needed and what is not
- Don't be too text heavy, measure effectiveness through analytics and make adjustments
- Users typically scan the page in an 'F' shape, going left to right across the top and down the left side
- Most users will only scan for specific terms as they hunt around your content
- Plan the experience
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TIP
- Always remember to use lower case and dashes, no spaces, when naming files and folders in your site.
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