Principles of Good Web Design
1. Your website should be compatible with all the web browsers like internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
2. It should be loaded quickly because the users are very impatient and they require the desired information as quickly as possible. If you use heavy graphics on your web site. It would take more time to load and the user might navigate away from your website.
3. You should use research about what words should be used in your website. So that whenever the user Google's out something relevant to your field your website comes out in the search results.
4. We should not use flashy introductions because yahoo or Google can not see it. Moreover it makes your website heavy and the website takes more time to load.
5. The information should be placed very strategically to appeal the user who is hunting for the interesting information
6. We should be very careful that we use the correct spelling and there are no grammatical mistakes in the text we use because the browser might be simply turned off by seeing the grammatical or spelling errors and he will not even bother to look at the information specified in the website and consider your company of low standard.
7. The website should be beautiful to look at. We can use classy designs, colors and fonts for our website. Anything what looks good gets more attention? We should not use too many colors and try to keep the website simple yet stylish.
8. It should be user friendly. It should be easily visible and readable. It should be easy to navigate through the site. The links should be underlined so that they catch the attention of the browser.
9. The homepage is the most significant part of any website because it is the first thing a browser will look at. We can add the news column to our homepage which will give the information about current news of your company. The home page should have a little x factor in it so that it could attract the clients.
10. Our website should clearly define its purpose and there should not be any ambiguous terms.
11. We should make the client believe that our website is trustworthy. We can do so by highlighting the name of the organization behind it, the expertise the company possesses.
12. There should be a separate page for the contact details. The contact details should be specified very clearly.
13. The website should look professional and not over the top.
The internet is a god, your best friend, a genie, whatever name you can give to it but it is difficult to even imagine a world without the Internet. It makes us feel that the entire globe is connected and is in front of us at one place in the form of internet.
Importance of websites for educational purposes : All colleges , schools and other educational institutions have a website of their own and even parents and students consider it to be mandatory because :
€ It helps the educational institutions to reach up to millions of people in any corner of the world. This helps them to advertise their institution thus helps those finding capable and talented students.
€ It helps the current students as they can check their course curriculum, exam schedule, result details, sports activities, placement activities, current events and news about their institution. It gives the correct information so that students are not misguided as they have all the information they want on school/college website.
€ If a student wants to apply for admissions in some particular educational institution he can fill the admission form on the internet.
€ A student can check his results anytime on the internet.
€ It helps the college students to get all the updates about placement activity.
€ Students have multiple options for them. They can research and find the best institution for them
€ It helps parents as well as some e-books, assignments and syllabus details are available on the website which is useful for them.
2. It should be loaded quickly because the users are very impatient and they require the desired information as quickly as possible. If you use heavy graphics on your web site. It would take more time to load and the user might navigate away from your website.
3. You should use research about what words should be used in your website. So that whenever the user Google's out something relevant to your field your website comes out in the search results.
4. We should not use flashy introductions because yahoo or Google can not see it. Moreover it makes your website heavy and the website takes more time to load.
5. The information should be placed very strategically to appeal the user who is hunting for the interesting information
6. We should be very careful that we use the correct spelling and there are no grammatical mistakes in the text we use because the browser might be simply turned off by seeing the grammatical or spelling errors and he will not even bother to look at the information specified in the website and consider your company of low standard.
7. The website should be beautiful to look at. We can use classy designs, colors and fonts for our website. Anything what looks good gets more attention? We should not use too many colors and try to keep the website simple yet stylish.
8. It should be user friendly. It should be easily visible and readable. It should be easy to navigate through the site. The links should be underlined so that they catch the attention of the browser.
9. The homepage is the most significant part of any website because it is the first thing a browser will look at. We can add the news column to our homepage which will give the information about current news of your company. The home page should have a little x factor in it so that it could attract the clients.
10. Our website should clearly define its purpose and there should not be any ambiguous terms.
11. We should make the client believe that our website is trustworthy. We can do so by highlighting the name of the organization behind it, the expertise the company possesses.
12. There should be a separate page for the contact details. The contact details should be specified very clearly.
13. The website should look professional and not over the top.
The internet is a god, your best friend, a genie, whatever name you can give to it but it is difficult to even imagine a world without the Internet. It makes us feel that the entire globe is connected and is in front of us at one place in the form of internet.
Importance of websites for educational purposes : All colleges , schools and other educational institutions have a website of their own and even parents and students consider it to be mandatory because :
€ It helps the educational institutions to reach up to millions of people in any corner of the world. This helps them to advertise their institution thus helps those finding capable and talented students.
€ It helps the current students as they can check their course curriculum, exam schedule, result details, sports activities, placement activities, current events and news about their institution. It gives the correct information so that students are not misguided as they have all the information they want on school/college website.
€ If a student wants to apply for admissions in some particular educational institution he can fill the admission form on the internet.
€ A student can check his results anytime on the internet.
€ It helps the college students to get all the updates about placement activity.
€ Students have multiple options for them. They can research and find the best institution for them
€ It helps parents as well as some e-books, assignments and syllabus details are available on the website which is useful for them.
