Simple Web Page/Site Tips

Here are a number of design tips for creating good web pages -

• Keep it simple.
• Keep it consistent.
• Conveying tone is difficult on a web page.
• Consider your audience in areas of content, layout, modem speed, and browser capability.
• Keep pages short.
• Organize your information - too much info on a page is not good.
• Organize important links on a page.
• Frames are useful, but tricky to implement.
• Imagemaps should be small and acompanied by text links.
• Use tables to format your page, but don't nest tables within table.

Here are a few site design tips -

• Plan and organize your site before you begin, if possible.
• Find a good page and site editing package to create and maintain your site.
• Keep all your frequently used images in one location.
• Keep your page design and layout consistent across the site.
• Create a template for your standard page layout for creation of new pages and maintenance of current pages.
• Use the 5 by 3 rule -

Don't have more than 5 or so major links per page and you should be able to find almost all important information within 3 clicks. This creates 125 end pages which should be enough for a user to get to the area they want.

• Create a search engine for your site if you have a large number of pages.