SEO based Website Architecture
How to make user friendly site
1. If your site is a personal website, think in terms of how you can exhibit your personality and style. & If your site is a commercial website, think in terms of how you want your customers to feel about your products and services.2. Research, Research, Research, what other websites with similar objectives have done. After come up your site. Spend some time looking at existing websites, and make notes of their respective positives and negatives; then think of how your site can incorporate the positives, while avoiding the negatives.
3. You can learn a lot about what works and what doesn’t by looking at the layout, color scheme, text, and images of other websites, and then use that knowledge to get the most out of your site.
4. The best way to do this is to start by drawing a sitemap, covering all of the pages you plan to create.
5. Try to lay out your site in a clear, logical manner, and avoid using image-based mouseover links.
6. This will help ensure that your site is easy to navigate, and will still leave you plenty of room to add your personal design touches.
7. Try to limit your pages to a total of 30kb, including text, background images, and images.
8. This will ensure that all pages will be loaded in about 5 seconds, even if the user happens to be using a dial-up connection.
9. Designing a good site, however, is a lot more difficult than merely put some pictures and text onto a page and arranging it to nice look.
10. If you do use one table, users will not be able to see any of your content until the entire table has been loaded. In order to avoid this problem, break your page into at least two tables. This will allow the user to see part of your page quickly, so that they do not get discouraged by a long wait.
11. When you have finished designing your site, be sure to take a look at it in several different browsers. Sometimes your “perfect” design will look urgly (not good) when viewed with a different browser
12. Typically a navigation bar looks something like this: You are at: Home>My Hobbies>Sports
13. Always ensure that you close HTML tags:
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14. Be sure to use standard TrueType Fonts, font sizes below 9 will not display well & bold formatting of font sizes below 11 will not be displayed.
15. Some older systems have a limited palette available, and their set-ups may vary. To ensure that your material will be viewable in a standard fashion, use Hexadecimal code for 216 “Web-safe colours”, e.g. H1 {COLOR: #FF0000}.
