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Web Design

How to structure your website?

A well structured website is important for 2 main reasons. Firstly and most importantly, it is good for users to quickly and easily navigate through your site and enjoy everything you have to offer there, but also a good structure will appeal to search engines and get you listed higher in their page rankings.

Here are a few guidelines you should use to make the most out of your website design and increase exposure to the masses.

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How to pick up the best color scheme for a website?

Ok, so you have the idea for a new web site and have all the layouts, functionalities and features worked out, but what about the color scheme? What are the right colors you can use to really make your site as attractive and memorable as possible? If, like me, you are color illiterate and can’t even coordinate a packet of smarties, then you will benefit from some of the useful information and tools on this article and get the right scheme ideas for your plot on the net.

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In contrast to “Web buttons, graphical mistakes” by ‘popular’ demand I have compiled a short article on choosing the best fonts for web design and staying away from those less appropriate ones. But before we even get into choosing fonts there are a couple things which should be understood with fonts in web design.

Make your font accessible.

Make sure that you use a font that was installed with your operating system by default. This will increase the chances that other people will have the font that is used on the web design as it was automatically installed on their computer as well.

In the beginning of the Web, the only typographic constant was Times New Roman under Windows and Times on the Mac. But even that wasn’t sure because the user was in complete control of the fonts they saw.

I learned this the hard way; I was showing my client his new site, only to have an ugly font replace my nice font because his computer did not have the font I used.

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