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Author: Lisa Maliga
Designing your own web page or site is a project that can be as fun and creative as you like. You're putting your work out there for potentially millions of people to read. Whether your site showcases your prized collection of stamps, your photos of family and pet[s], or you're trying to build a new
1. There are hundreds of available fonts from the standard size Times New Roman to extra large and bold Goudy Stout. Using more than two, possibly three, fonts are not recommended. It's fun experimenting with the right font for your page, but unless you're creating a web site where you're featuring fonts, keep it simple. Also, script fonts look awful when they're done in all capital letters.
2. With the advent of animated graphics [GIF's], most of them available for the rock bottom price of nothing, people can go crazy decorating their site with the visual equivalent of Disney World. Some of the animations do more than move; they make noise! Remember, folks, less is more! One or two appropriate animations per page can enhance it. Yes, animation is fun. But too much can be distracting.
3. Spell check your page. Read it. Then read it again. Even if you have a graphics' intensive site, you will have some text. When that text is misspelled and/or full of grammatical errors, you'll turn away a proportionate amount of traffic. I once discovered a site with TWELVE misspellings on one page! No matter what you're selling or showing on the WWW, ( Next Page )
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