How to Design a Website

To make sure a website performs optimally to serve its purpose for which it was
designed, the following guide must be followed accurately.

1. Have a simple and clear navigation.
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a
young child will know how to use it. or multitiered drop down menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

2.Stay away from complicated Flash based menus.

3. In adding audio,provide some control over it,volume or muting controls would work fine.

4. Do not use excessive banner advertisements.
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

5. Have a clear indication of where the user is at a moment.
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure
they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be
able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

6. Do not use splash pages.
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally
have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that, pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

7. Avoid using audio on your site.
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website.