Top Website Navigation Tips
July 24th, 2010
The overall layout of your website and the way you display content on it are two extremely important factors you can’t ignore during your website designing. Here’s how you can improve both:
- Position your most important content in the upper half of your web page.
- It’s best to layout your page with tables by setting the width in percentage and not pixels to make your page fit perfectly on every screen.
- Keep your website resolution at 800×600 as this is the most widely used resolution at present
- For website body, use contrasting colors like black on white or white on black.
- Don’t use more than 2 fonts in one page. If you’re using the ‘Verdana’ typeface, stick to it and only change its size or boldness to bring variations.
- Avoid using large paragraphs of text and split your content in small paragraphs, bullets and headings.
- Avoid using childish features like numeric page counters, excessive use of exclamation points, all caps letters, too much animated gifs, distracting backgrounds, etc.
- Don’t use pop-up menus and windows, they are irritating.
- Test your website for cross-browser compatibility.
Improve your website’s appearance by following the tips given above. And these tips are strongly recommended by professional web designers

