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Before I get into why someone would need a web site, I think it's important to understand what websites are technically used for.  There are a few different kinds of websites that people or companies may use.  These include e-commerce websites, social networking web sites, bookmarking websites, brochure websites, blogs, and personal websites.  I'm sure ...

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Allow the user to browse the site quickly and easily.  For a stronger, more effective web design, remember these conventions.

Where are you from?

The web wouldn't be the web if it wasn't world wide, hence the “www.” The impact is that anyone from anywhere can access your site. So ...

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Web designers and Internet users look at the web in very different ways. The common mistake designers make is that they don't look at the web as a user would. Look at the chart below for an example.

Designers sometimes forget the users and begin to design web pages as if ...

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Content is one of the most important factors in a web design. Without content, you will have a very ineffective design.

The purpose of a design is to enable communication between the consumer and the content. Too often designers will design the site first and fit content in later. This is ...

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The bottom line is that nobody is reading every detail while browsing through sites. You know you don’t. So what do you do? You start scanning. You start looking for any little thing that catches your eye and you begin to focus on that.

What catches your eye?

Anything can ...

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We've all gone through it - the dreaded tired eye. You've been on the computer, looking up information and working and searching and typing. Your eyes start to feel heavy. They start to itch. You just have to leave your computer!

This is the result of reading and staring at a ...

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