Gone are the days when merely having a website ensured a good rapport with your potential customers. Business website these days need to be designed in a way that can attract more and more customers and more importantly make them want to return to your website.

Once a visitor arrives at your website, it is important to make him feel comfortable to navigate through your website. The navigation menu, is thus the most important aspect of your website. It should be so designed that the visitor knows exactly how to get to the desired page without creating any kind of confusion.

It is also important to have a website that is very responsive to the customer. One way to increase the responsiveness of the website is to reduce the number of images contained in the website. The images which you feel are essential for your website can be edited by using some of the popular image editing software and then such edited images may be included in the website.

Another very good design practice is to phrase the textual content in a way such that there are no large paragraphs on view. Large chunks of text in a web page are generally not preferred by readers but if you do want your website to provide considerable amount of information in text form, then it is advisable to split the content into multiple paragraphs.

One major aspect of website design that needs to be kept in mind is to ensure its compliance to the international standards. These days apart from Internet Explorer, there are many other browser options such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome etc., that are available to the end user and thus it is important to cater to their needs by following the set of standards specified for the websites. Information about such an internationally agreed standard is available on many websites, www.w3.org being a prime example of such a site.

Among the many aspects that need to be avoided in designing website, avoiding excessive usage of scripting language is of prime importance. Scripting languages are preferred to handle and/or manipulate data but using them to add or create visual effects should be avoided as they are generally considered to be very heavy and may cause an increase in the load time of your site or may even crash browsers at the user end.  Different browsers behave differently when it comes to handling scripts and thus sometimes it may so happen that a particular browser might not be able to handle a particular script too well and thus visitors using that browser stand to lose out on some valuable information.

Usage of Cascading Style Sheet [CSS] is recommended on your web page content as they reduce your work load by styling all elements on your website in one go.

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There are certain rules that must be applied if you want your site to be successful. No, not all sites must be all corporate looking. A lot of successful sites have a personal touch to them which might be part of why they are successful.

But here are the basic, important rules to having a good site. With a bad site, you will drive potential customers away.

1) Easy to navigate- Nothing is more frusterating than going to a site for a certain piece of information and not being able to find what you are looking for. Everything is so confusing and you don’t know where to go for what. You need a navigation bar which tells the visitor what page to visit for what.

2) Purpose of the site- When someone goes to your site, they should be able to tell pretty quickly what the purpose of your site it. What’s it about? What can they find there?

3) Easy to read- Don’t make the site hard to read. If it hurts the eyes, your visitor will press the back button. For example, never have a red background. Ouch. And you don’t want your font too tiny or too large. Keep it easy to read. That’s very important.

4) Watch the ads- Pop up ads are annoying. Those ads you have to chase around the screen to close like it’s some sort of game are even more annoying. If you want to monetize your site, you will need ads unless you want to do it by 100% product/service sales. Obviously nothing is wrong with having ads on your site, but when your site is overcrowded with ads and looks like it’s 90% ads, that’s too much. Your visitors won’t stay very long in that case. There are some sites out there with a little bit of content in between ads and ads and large ads and more ads. It looks like a big commercial. You want ads sure, but try to keep it proportionate.

5) Spelling and grammar- Watch the spelling and grammar on your site. If you want customers, they need to take your seriously. And if your website is full of mistakes, they won’t.