Flash web design: advice
Most people forming a site presume all it takes to start a thriving website is a little content, thrown in some attractive pics and you got a winner on your hands. You couldn't be more incorrect. There is an entire industry faithful to only this feature of the internet: web design.
Web design is an niche which focuses on optimising your website both for the addressee, as well as for search engines for optimum indexing and page rank. A good case in point of what inadequate web design can do to your site is the use of frames on your page. They might look modish, but the search engines face hindrance while trying to crawl pages with several frames on them, hence disregard them absolutely. The result? Your page never gets indexed and you have to give up on dear traffic you would have gathered from these search engines.
Don't lose heart though, incorporate the following and you'll see your site doing well in quickly!
1. Don't make use of frames as I said beforehand. Enough said about that.
2. Get a nice domain name to suit the character of your site. sidestep free hosts as they have a lot of downtime and no one takes a site hosted on a free host seriously. Use a brief and unproblematic to learn by heart domain name, and use hyphens to delineate words in the domain name if needed.
3. Keep your pages succinct. Use various pages for a theme if required, but keep all pages not more than 400-500 words. Put yourself in the visitors’ perspective; would you be keen on having to read unbroken lines of wording? I doubt. People would sooner read a page and then read the following page at a subsequent time.
4. Avoid excessive deployment of images and visuals. Images are liable to brake the loading of your page, which can be quite a annoyance for people on dialup or on sluggish connections. Nobody likes to wait for ages for the page to load; they'll only press the redirect button and leave your website.
5. Make a sitemap of your site which has all the links in your site. This will lend a hand to search bots crawl your site with lesser trouble, and with increased speed. You must avoid broken links at all costs. Nothing is more irritating than clicking on a link and then finding that it leads nowhere. It will also get in the way of search bots in indexing your site properly.
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