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Employing a few best practices on web design and development will go a long way towards helping you create a user friendly website. Think about website that you tend to avoid. Chances are good that they are difficult to use, won't load properly in the web browser, or it is hard to read the content. As a designer, it is your duty to make sure your website can be easily experienced by your web visitors.

Employing a few best practices on web design and development will go a long way towards helping you create a user friendly website. Think about website that you tend to avoid. Chances are good that they are difficult to use, won't load properly in the web browser, or it is hard to read the content. As a designer, it is your duty to make sure your website can be easily experienced by your web visitors.

For optimal usability, your website should operate the same in all internet browsers. With so many on the market, achieving this ideal can be a challenge. The best way to handle this is to view your design in each of the major browsers. If things look off or don't work correctly, then make the necessary adjustments to achieve consistency.

Individual pages of websites are indexed by search engines. This means your visitors are more likely to enter your site from an internal page rather than the home page. To help visitors get around the site no matter how they come to it, you should have a menu section with links to other parts of your site as well as the front page.

Not everyone that comes to your site is going to have perfect 20/20 vision. A good portion of the population is experiencing age related myopia. Try to use eye friendly fonts that have good spacing and don't go smaller than 12 pixels. Many will use the zoom function on their web browsers to enlarge text on the screen. To facilitate this, you should define your fonts in percentages rather than pixels or points.

A good habit to get into is to use the "Alt" tag on images and the "Title" tag on links. Browsers created for the visually impaired as well as search engine read those labels to understand what the link or image contains. In addition to making your site readable to the blind, you'll also make your site more search engine friendly.

The number one reason why sites become ugly and hard to navigate is due to excessive ad placement. There is nothing wrong with generating income through advertising. However, cramming as many ads that will fit on your site is counterproductive. It makes it harder for visitors to use your site and you'll only end up losing many of them.

There are many more best practices on web design and development that you can use to build a usable website. These few tips, however, will move you in the right direction. As long as you always put your reader's needs first, you'll create a site they will enjoy visiting.