To guarantee good traffic and profits from your site, it is imperative that you follow the guidelines provided by experienced webmasters. The guidelines are in relation to the copyright laws, design, text, graphics, media and the maintenance of the site.
One of the most important guidelines is the law. Most people create websites and trademark or copyright them. Copying any content from such sites can get on the wrong side of the law. Be creative and craft original content on your own, do not use another developer’s elements unless you have permission from them. Governments also issue regulations and laws that have to be followed in relation to web development. Ensure that you access these laws and follow them accordingly.
Web development design must have a good layout that users can navigate through without any problems. The background of the site should be simple and if possible, a plain background should be used. Background dictates the color to be used on the text and the images another graphics used in the site. Whenever the background is dark, the color of the text should be bright. Colors used in the site should not be more than two. Use of many colors is said to be annoying to the eyes because the users are not able to view the contents of the site well.
The text on the content part should have standard font; one that is easily readable. Fonts that cannot be read comfortably for example calligraphic fonts should not be used. These fonts are used when targeting specific target audience for instance the youth. The number of hyperlinks within the text should be minimized as they may present challenges in readability. Some people use sitemap images which are not friendly to use. Instead, text versions of sitemap should be used. Whenever tables are used, mark-up should be used to associate the cells and the header cells together.
When creating websites, the main objective is the ability of the users to access the site without a problem. The loading speeds of the sites should be fast enough to allow users to access important content on time. To ensure this, you should minimize the number of images, tables and graphics used. These elements consume a lot of bandwidth and they can adversely affect the loading speeds of the site. If it is very necessary to use these elements, consider using revolutionary techniques like CSS which lowers the bandwidth significantly improving the loading speeds of the site. CSS can also be used to position some elements like images, headers and content box in the right positions.
Another factor that is related to accessibility is ability of the users to locate your site fast through the search engines. This is done by Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and HTML sitemap. Keywords are put throughout the text so that when users search a word available on your site, the site is listed in the search engine. SEO locates keywords available on the home page only while sitemap locates keywords in the entire site. When the two are used together, site optimization by the search engine is much faster.