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Ever visited a graphics heavy website? How long does it take to load all of the images? Makes you feel lazy or impatient doesn’t it? That’s how visitors react to most web site, they just don’t like a slow loading site or in other words, people don’t like to wait. It’s easy to just browse then close their browser tab.

Making a web design isn’t easy as what most people think. A well planned web site will have a lot of visitors in the long run. Take a look at Twitter. Why do you think it’s popular and successful? From its topic search engine? Yes, but that’s not all. From its availability among other devices and easy to use features? Yes and yes. Twitter is easy to use, it has compatibility to other devices AND it’s a very light web design. The web design is ingenious. It’s fast and that’s all that matters.

Having a fast website makes a huge difference. Compared to other websites that also has the same idea, Twitter easily wins for being the easiest and fastest website. It’s clutter free and “tweets” are organized properly. That’s how a good web design should be.

Here are 3 easy tips that will help you build a fast and simple web site.

Let your design breathe
Let your design have a comfortable feel. Don’t cram all your web page elements into one space. Let them have good spaces between them. Websites would look like a mess if you stick web elements too close together. It would also look different on other browsers and may overlap each other, so give your web design space.

CSS Optimization
Take a look at Andreas Viklund’s templates. His web designs are featured in Wordpress. CSS Optimization makes your sheets easy to understand, clean and easy to edit. How does this make your websites load fast? If you use less images and more CSS reliant on background colors, your web page would be lighter. It would also allow you to easily change your themes without going over your codes and touching HTML.

Avoid using multimedia
If your website doesn’t really need Flash or Java, don’t use them. It will only make your website look complicated and makes long loading time. Having great multimedia graphics is good but only if its actually useful and simple. Most of the time, these Java/Flash effects only makes it hard for people to access the information they want to get.

In Web Designing, have you ever wondered what makes Google a very successful web site? It’s not just its search engine, actually that came second. Wanna know the secret? It’s the design.

It’s simple, effective and direct to the point. Just look at how Google looks like and compare it with Yahoo or MSN. They have too much images, design and has a heavy background while Google only has its logo and the almighty search bar! Even now that Google has a very big company and a lot of other improvements… they DID NOT change the whole idea/theme of their site. What’s the only that’s new on Google?? Well, it’s just a minimal image, blue link texts at the top where it won’t bother your vision, good sized fonts and the same BIG WHITE SPACE AND THE ALMIGHTY GOOGLE SEARCH BAR!

Imagine that you’re a user visiting Google first time, what is your first impression? That’s right, it’s some kind search site… exposing the big search bar up front, it would make you want to try it and by then you would realize that it’s a very good search engine!

Now if you want your website to attract a lot of visitors, you have to work on your web design. It’s the first step of any profitable business or anything on the net. Make beautiful and most importantly a useful web design. Content comes second then SEO then back to web design if you want your visitors to stay. It’s a cycle and it’s pretty important to learn.

Here are some of the tips that would help you make a simple and useful web design.

Make it simple
I’m being redundant but its true, if you want people to stay on your website or make them “like” your web site then make your web design simple. Minimize the use of images, if you should, make it useful and have a purpose.

Use white space
One way to make a simple and comfortable to read web site is using white space. White space means spaces on your web elements. Don’t let them stick too close together, let your web design breathe. Don’t cram your contents in one look and don’t worry about making your web design too long way down… that’s what scroll bars are for!

Fast Loading Time
How? Make use of vector images and optimize your CSS. Use color codes and avoid making a big graphic background.