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Web Design Best Practices

BY Vikas Lamba | 09-02-2009 | 1:40 PM
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

While designing a website, it is crucial to make sure that the site is user intuitive, friendly (both for users and search engines) and easy to navigate. Although these are basic elements of a good web design, sometimes they just get left out or ignored, either because client is on a low budget or less time or some other reason. Here are some usability and practical tips for a good web design which can be helpful for web designers as well as clients. These practices are equally important for any SEO company as well.

It is a common knowledge that the creation and maintenance of web design takes a significant amount of a programmer's and designer's time. Part of the reason for this is the use of non-portable and non-standard features and less than desirable programming style when developing applications. In this article we have presented some guidelines which have stood us in good stead over the years. Here are some of the important best practices....

  1. Always use the latest stable version of the platform, language, script, database etc to ensure that your product is as future proof as possible.
  2. Use a source code style ......

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