| If you are a web designer or a webmaster, website | | | | Browser compatibility is easy - just test your site in |
| design is one of the most important tasks you do. In | | | | various browsers, and fix any incompatibilities. The |
| designing a site, you need to create a design that is | | | | same for screen resolution - just be sure that you site |
| easy for users to use, is compatible with different | | | | looks good and is easily navigated with any common |
| systems, and is search engine friendly. | | | | screen resolution. Color depth is also relatively simple. |
| Making a site that is user friendly: | | | | Just restrict your design to using web safe colors. |
| In some ways, creating a user friendly site is just | | | | Plug-ins can be a little more complicated. If at all |
| common sense - other aspects are not so obvious, | | | | possible, try to use media that is compatible with most |
| though. Obviously, you'll want to make the text easy to | | | | versions of a plug in. For example, try not to use a |
| read, the navigation links easy to find, etc. Here are a | | | | flash movie that requires the latest version of a flash |
| few other tips: | | | | player. |
| Put contact information on every page. | | | | Making a site that is search engine friendly: |
| Make it obvious what you want the user to do after | | | | The biggest thing you can do to make your site |
| reading a page.. | | | | friendly to the search engines is to give it a good link |
| Make it easy for the user to reach your homepage | | | | structure. Be sure that each page on your site is linked |
| from any other page | | | | to from at least two other pages with a plain text link. |
| Making a site that is cross-platform compatible: | | | | Image links are OK, but not as good as optimized text |
| The main factors you need to consider in platform | | | | links. Javascript and flash links are very bad for search |
| compatibility are the user's browser, screen resolution, | | | | engine usability. |
| color depth, and plug ins. | | | | |