Written by Fabio Pozzato

Key points to develop a Website:

When you are designing a website there are some elements you need to consider. First of all you need to have a clear structure of your entire site, and it has to be consistent among all the pages, so that the user can easily recognize a pattern and this improves the usability.

Five design principles:

High quality content

Often updated

Structured layout

Ease of use

Relevant to user's needs

Structured layout:

One of the most important principle to follow when designing a website is not only to have a clear structure of the website but to actually implement it in a way that is the best from the user perspective. With clear structure i mean that the user has to know at every time where he is, and how to get where he wants to. And i am not talking about the visual appealing of the website, a good one can be even without a fancy style, even though is a good point to try to have an effective design.

Good Website Design: www.amazon.com

Bad Website Design: www.dpgraph.com

What to do:

1. Usually is better to use one single font for the website
2. Proper use of colors, based on what the goal is
3. Use font sizes to distinguish between titles and paragraphs

What not to do:

1. Put objects randomly without a structure
2. don't use too big or too tiny font sizes
3. don't use too many images to have a lighter site
4. don't use fonts that may not be available on user's device

Conclusion:

We discussed the main aspects to consider developing a website, the first important one is to have a high quality content, second aspect is to keep it updated, so that the user knows that the content is actual and not obsolete. Another important point is that your site must be easy to use from the user's point of view. You don't want to have distracting elements like in the bad example mentioned above. The fact that with css is possibile to implement a lot of fancy effects doesn't mean that you are forced to use them all!