Learn to build your website - design, navigation, graphics, writing for the web

After you have planned your website and selected your website subject and the name of your domain, the next stage is to build it by reading as many articles as you can. These might relate to website design, content, navigation, and graphics.


Essentials of Website Design
Promoting a poorly built site is much like trying to dig half a hole. You must succeed in creating a good, clean website design and interesting and original content. Your system must be logical and intuitive what to do next. Remove the guesswork and just let people get where they need to go. Doing
this with website design is never easy. Doing this on a budget is even harder.


Writing for the Web
Writing for the Web is somewhat different than writing and preparing content for print documents and publications. Every page that you write on the Web must grab attention for the topic you have written on. Resources are given for your convenience to do research on different subjects so that you create targeted and fresh contents. The resources are links to highly authoritative articles, tips and information specific to content writing, development, and preparation for Web sites.


Essentials of Website Navigation
Forrester Research reports that 50% of potential sales are lost because users can't find the information they want. 40% of users don't return to a problem site. Only about 3% of sites pass Forrester's usability guidelines.

The importance of your navigation structure cannot be over-emphasized. Without some sort of navigation, a site loses all sense of structure and organization. There are many ways of presenting your navigation: in a bar down one side of the screen, along the top and bottom, or in a frame that stays with you throughout your visit to a site. It is important to allow access to the rest of your site from anywhere.


The role of Website Graphics and graphic design
Explaining the role of graphics and graphic design in presenting a professional website image that creates a willingness to make buy decisions online, we must point out the various responsibilities of a designer. Here what you will find is more like description of graphics in terms of designing your website than actually making a graphic package like using Adobe Photo Shop or some other package.


Make Your Website Smarter
You can make your first website smarter by doing a few essential things and by avoiding obvious and not so obvious mistakes.


Website Tips And Tutorials
I came across a few tutorials and tips that I implemented on my website and I want to share them with you.