Web Design/Developement Tips

Web development refers to developing a website according to the unique business requirements.  The websites can be E-commerce, static, dynamic, content management system, forums, news, online games and client/server coding and configurations.  There are many tools, languages and technologies that are being used to develop a website according to the requirements of the client.  The common tools and web technologies are HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, ASP.Net, Flash, Cold fusion, XML, Java, Ruby, J2EE, PERL and others. 

The web development’s tools and language’s hierarchy can be extended to a large number of other server side and client side tools and languages.  There are many tips and techniques that helps to troubleshoot the common errors of the websites and that helps to make the websites look professional.  The following tips are also helpful in making your website creating, secure, good looking and search engines friendly.

Tips

• Make your website simple and don’t and minimize the use of the graphics, scripts and flash.
• Use CSS to control the formatting, design and other aspects of your website.
• Make neat and clean website design and easy navigation.
• To keep your website safe from the hackers make sure that your hosting provider has installed an up-to-dated antivirus and anti spyware solutions.
• Install antivirus and anti spyware on your local computer.
• Install and configure firewall on your computer.
• Create good Meta tags, sitemap and submit your website in the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
• If your website is an E-commerce website doing online transactions, make sure your hosting provider providing the secure transactions features and protocols like HTTPS and SSL.
• For dynamic websites, use Mod_Rewrites to make the URLs simple and search engine friendly.
• Choose a web hosting provider and make sure the uptime, security features, data space, bandwidth and other features before selecting a hosting company.  The most famous web hosting companies are Host Monster, Blue Host, DoDaddy.com, HostGator, Lunar pages and Yahoo Web hosting.
• Make your website compatible with the web browsers like internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox
• Create and place common codes in the include file.
• Use Google Analytical to monitor the activities of the visitors on your website.
• Avoid invisible text.
• Make your design and structure consistent throughout the website.
• Optimize and validate the HTML code and scripts and remove any kind of HTML and other coding errors.
• Do not include pages that re-direct the pages to other pages.