Basic Website Design

No matter what you are building, you need to have a good design. As with websites, if the design is bad, it could lead to its downfall. You don't need to be a professional graphics artist or website designer but you need to make sure you are not missing important parts or pieces. If you are, your website could suffer:

• Receiving no traffic because the search engine spiders have a hard time crawling your site
• Your visitors do not stay long on your site because they are frustrated

While you have been surfing around the Internet, did you came across many websites that were badly designed. Did you stay long on that site? On the websites that you came across, why do you think they were a bad design or even a good one?

Of the sites you liked - what set it off? The colors, images, location of navigational menus?

What about the sites that you did not like? Did they use pop-ups that would not stop? Continuous music? Colors that made the text difficult to read? Font to small?

When you are building your website, look at the design from a visitors point of view. You don't need a professional web site design company to make a great looking websites you can do it yourself, just take time with it.

If you are using a site builder, you should have no problems finding a website design template built in the software package to fit your theme. If not, there are many nice looking free design templates you can use to start out.

No matter what type of site you are creating, it may be easier to start out with a simple web site design. As time goes by and your website evolves you can add more flair to it.

You can optimize your site all you want for the search engine spiders, but you have to make sure it is human friendly.

If you need some help for your website design, here are two lists for good and bad design tips.

Good Website Design Tips to help you get started with your website.

To try and avoid problems with your website here is the bad website design tips list.