Building Your Web Site: Top Ten Web Design Tips

Displaying information on a Web site is its own art. Keep these design tips in mind to build your own original, clear, and user-friendly Web site:

1. Create reusable graphics.

2. Use templates whenever possible.

3. Use CSS (cascading style sheets) in place of the <font> tag.

4. Resize and optimize graphics before adding them to a web page.

5. Do not resize graphics using the <img> tag.

6. Do not use Flash introductions; they’re no longer in style.

7. Avoid using long paragraphs.

8. Use Heading styles to break up a page.

9. Break up large amounts of text with graphic images.

10. Keep the home page short and simple.