The basic and important web design tip is that your web design should reflect your application, e.g. you are making a web design for your site then there should be a very good combination between the design and your website or we can say that your web design should reflect your website's content...
Content is very very important, i must say the the most important. But we don't want to neglect the visual part. How visitors will come back if the website is ugly, very hard to navigate,color scheme is completely awful...
Ten short web design tips for better web pages.
1. Keep the file size small
2. Set ALT image tags
3. Learn about style sheets
4. What's in the background?
5. Use a descriptive title
6. Include a site map
7. Use shortcuts
8. Optimise your graphics
9. Validate your pages
10. Recycle where possible
Some basic tips from my side:
1. See to it that your site is easy to navigate.
2. Has clean layout.
4. Must be designed for all kinds of resolutions.
5. And is compatible with multiple browsers.
6. Avoid pop-ups as much as you can, for users get annoyed at times.
7. Make sure your every web page has something valuable to offer.
Good luck!
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