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With the Internet in pretty much every home, users are now expecting a level of sophistication from web sites they use. Your goal as a designer is to provide users the easiest way of accessing the information you have. You have to adapt web technologies to their expectations and never ‘require’ readers to confirm to certain parameters, such as browser, screen resolution or platform. The days of ‘this can only be viewed in xx on an xx’ are well and truly over.

You need to research the needs and demographics of your target audience. There’s no point in designing a site for an unknown person who you don’t understand.

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When staring at a blank page, ready to design your website there are a few things that need to be considered. Navigation is a key factor in web design - and will have a huge effect on the success of your website. Our Divlets have come up with a few important tips that should help you on your way.

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It is a common misconception that to build a website in 1024px x 768px, thats the size to set your workspace in Photoshop or Fireworks.

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Producing markup is common practice for any who develop initially for the web. Most could probably quite happily say that it is a straight forward process so long as it all looks good on screen. But is it? Fully understanding the reasoning for implementing HTML and using the right tag for its Job (cue the term semantic markup) is highly crucial and beneficial but appears to still be a common misunderstanding around the web. Planning ahead is actually a much harder process than one might expect and requires an initial degree of thought before delving straight in. However, putting effort in in the early stages not only saves on development time and future costs but overtime with practice, just makes plain common sense.

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