Friday, September 21, 2007

Google's website Design and content guidelines


Following Guidelines should be considered when developing any web site. These points are directed by Google. These points are your Guide to Professional Website Design and Development

Google's Design and content guidelines

1. Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.

2. Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
3. Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
4. Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
5. Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
6. Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
Check for broken links and correct HTML.
7. If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Source : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Friday, September 14, 2007

Art to design great looking / beautiful web sites


. Understand the design process, from discovery to implementation
. Develop pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, balance, and symmetry
. Use color effectively, develop color schemes and create a palette
. Use textures: lines, points, shapes, volumes, and depth
. Learn how good typography can make ordinary designs look great
. Effective imagery: choosing, editing and placing images
. Understand what makes “good design

Monday, September 3, 2007

Top 10 Website development Guidlines

1. Use clean CSS (cascading style sheets) codes
2. If websites are built on a dynamic platform, make sure that your Content
Management System is search engine friendly
3. Keep your codes clean by calling all java scripts and CSS using an include file
4. Use keyword rich H1 TAGS
5. Use ALT Tags for images to enable your site to be read by visitors with
visual/hearing impairments and name all your images keyword rich
6. Keep the download time low by reducing images on the site
7. Float the content right at the top and make it easy for the crawler to index your
page
8. Make sure phone numbers and address are on every page as text
9. Use Absolute Links, no relative links
10. Check for browser compatibility so the site appears the same across all platforms

Source : http://blog.milestoneinternet.com/milestone-top-10/milestones-top-10-website-programming-guidelines/