A question asked by many people new to designing websites is "How wide should I make my website?" It's important to figure out the perfect width for your website so that you can display your content nicely without requiring horizontal scrolling.
It's always important to have a website that loads quickly. Most users will not wait for more than a few seconds for the page to load. Just one second too long could mean that your users will go to a competitor's site. Here are some quick and easy ways to speed up your website.
If you're a web designer, I'm sure that you also hate Internet Explorer 6. You probably spend hours designing a website, and when you go to test it in IE6, it looks like crap. You then have to spend even more time just to get it to work in that one browser.
Lately, I've been getting requests from businesses for website designs. Of course, they want it designed in—you guessed it—Flash.
Sure, Flash could have some practical uses, but it shouldn't be used in a business' website. Even after many rants on the internet about why Flash shouldn't be used, I still get many requests for Flash design.
With any type of design, whether it's for web or print or any other type of design, it's important to use the right font. With all those free fonts that exist, it can be hard to pick out the very nice ones. There are over 9000 fonts on dafont.com alone. I've put together a list of fifteen fantastic free fonts that I really like.