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Web Design Checklist
Since this website is focused on the people who are new to building a website, everything written here is aimed at those who are just starting out on their first or second effort at designing a website.  So you will not be dragged you through a "techie" populated lecture.

It is also based on the use of a very simple and immensely powerful free website builder called BlueVoda. It is a very powerful WYSIWYG web builder (what you see is what you get) that will  make it very easy for you to start building websites.

With a free website builder like BlueVoda, you honestly don't need to know all the technical “stuff” about designing a website such as HTML, AJAX, ASP, PHP, and so on, though it is obviously a plus to acquire  knowledge in how to use them. This is left for you to judge for yourself.

Bluevoda produces a great web site every time, and the sister company Vodahost, is loaded with all the bells and whistles you could ever need, no matter your level of web design skill.
Design Checklist For Your Website
It is not enough to just design a website and slap it on a web server. Rather it is pertinent that you design your site so that it has some ease-of-use attributes. These attributes mean that your website should be:

1. Attractiveness

Please do not confuse this with the word “colourful”. This is far from the meaning here.
By attractive, I mean that your website should look and feel as good as it gets. It should have a lot of white spaces and a few colours to give it a light, soft feeling. The rule here is simplicity, which works all the time.

You can compare this to a tacky, dark website with about a dozen flashing banners. This is not the professional feel you'll love your site to have. Remember that your website is like having a sign hanging over your shop on the street corner. If your sign looks crude, dirty and tacky, do you expect a lot of people to patronize you? You guessed it.

2. Easy to navigate

If you do not plan your website properly, you will end up producing a site akin to a tangled mess. You should have a clear direction of how visitors to your site should move from one point to another.

Depending on what your site is all about, you should have clearly defined navigation links to lead your visitors to exactly where you expect them to land after every click.

You should avoid using excessive layers that will make it difficult for your visitors to find what they are looking for. By layers, I mean having a particular item buried so deep within another item such that it takes up to 3 - 5 clicks to get to it.

E.g.: Say you are selling 3 varieties of clothes: Shirts, T-shirts and Trousers.

Why should you allow your visitors to go through

         Catalogue
            |           
      Products Before landing at        
           |
   Shirts. T-shirts. Trousers,

Why not just send them straight to: Shirts. T - shirts. Trousers.

It will be easier for people to go straight and view your products instead of going through 3 layers of navigation to get to the product they want. The easier it is for them to do this, the more you sell, which ultimately translates to more money, which should be your goal.  >>>continued>>>
Web Design Checklist