Website Design Basic Concepts


Kim Eyer

So, whats in a website design anyway And, how do you get a design that is appealing to the broad and varied tastes of all those Internet surfers out there

This is critical. Your website design is the first impression you make on your customers and visitors. There are a few sites in my favorites and bookmarks that I consider poorly designed. I still have them, because they have information I want. Lucky for the site owner that their content was that good! But one day I will find another site with the same information and a better design. Then guess who will be in my favorites and who will be left out Maybe your content is great too, but dont take chances on a poor design. Think how much more repeat traffic and referred traffic you will get if you have both great content and great design.

Design Taste Varies - OK, design is a matter of taste and target audience to some degree. What looks good to one visitor may not be so great to another. Here we have the old adage of "one mans trash is another mans treasure". But there are solid basics that go into good site design. Creating a distinctive visual style and applying it consistently is the best way to bind a series of subjects and web pages together.

Layouts - The layout of your site is an important design element. A webpage is a document, plain and simple. It is like formatting a letter, an outline, a report, or an advertisement. Establish a layout grid and


To provide some examples of web design and development I give you here:

10 latest blog posts by Web Developer Jim Westergren

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New site design
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This article is written for my friend “honey” (site). I have been bidding against honey on web site auctions for almost 2 years now. I have won maybe 60 auctions and I have now over 100 web sites. Honey owns over 300 … So here comes my checklist that I want to show honey as I [...]

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Have you also heard of those horror stories of Google banning Adsense accounts for the smallest mistakes? You have read the Terms and Conditions and you know the basics but what do you do when you show your friend your site on your computer and the first thing he does is to click the Adsense ad [...]

Updating PR values of 1066 URLs in 30 minutes
This article is written more for myself so I remember how I do it the next time but probably a few people will also benefit from this for different uses and purposes. Today I updated all the PR values for the directories listed on my directory list. I had to update each listing in the MySQL [...]

Worst Web Design Ever
Official site of a children’s hospital in Japan Hey, your “logo” is not blinking! MSY Technology Pty. Ltd. Are you sure product X is HOT? Personal site of Franz Magnus Incredible that you got several awards for that site. Angren.net, electronic shop Can’t you squeeze in something more on the home page? Official site of Northbridge Police Department Still being updated in 2006. Perhaps [...]

Fighting the War Against Web Site Spam Bots
The last days I have been fighting in the war against the latest spam bot soldiers like a maniac. I own and manage over 70 web sites. This includes different forums, directories, blogs, topsites, article submission sites and you name it. Very recently there is a new wave of spam. The default captcha for vBulletin is now [...]

Link to Me Textbox WordPress Plugin
This is a WordPress plugin that will give you more links and higher rankings in the search engines. Most bloggers knows the importance of getting links in order to get high rankings in search engines. But did you know that the best links are those that are natural recommendations? Additionally I experienced better rankings across all [...]

Tutorial: Automatic Site Map for WordPress
To improve the navigation of your users as well as search engine traffic and ranking to your WordPress blog I suggest making a good site map of your posts - a map of your site. A kind of user friendly archive of your posts. This is not “Google sitemap”! The benefits: The user can quickly find a [...]

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How I rank on different keywords and links to the different SE queries.

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