Web Design Tips

Easy to Understand and Use

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Keep It Simple!

Avoid grammer and spelling misteakes
Use at least the required tags (HTML, /HTML, HEAD, /HEAD, TITLE, /TITLE, BODY,/BODY)

5 Items Per Menu (or 5 items per group)
3 Click Rule
Provide good navigation aids so the user does not get lost deep in your site
Always provide a link to lead the user back to the beginning of your site (i.e. don't leave them stranded at a deadend page)

30 Second Time Limit
use HEIGHT and WIDTH options in the IMG tag so the page will load text and leave appropriate space for slower-loading images
if you use a background image, make sure it is small and fastloading
Recommended TOTAL page size should be no more than 50 KB

Intuitive Interface
Use a consistent theme throughout all your pages
Use standard ways for users to interact with the page (i.e. link colors, menu placement, menu items)
The page should be usable by disabled viewers (espec. the blind)--
So...Reproduce image menus in text
And...Label all images with alt tag in img
Test your page with different browsers, with the images turned off, with different window sizes, etc.