• Navigation – make sure your website is easy to navigate around by creating clear, concise links to each page from the main homepage, and also links between pages that contain related content. For example if you have an ‘About Us’ section detailing what services/products your company provides make sure you create links in this page to the other relevant pages containing information about your prices, services or product catalogues, so that visitors can easily find out more if they want to.
• Layout – Most Internet users are very experienced at visiting websites, and to save wasting their time will literally scan a website in a few seconds and decide instantly if they want to stay and learn more. It is therefore vitally important that the layout is attractive and easy to read, and free from clutter or too many adverts. Messy, unorganised websites will put people off immediately, as will websites that have more adverts than content.
• Loading Times – a lot of people now have broadband, but not everyone will have quick loading times, so it is important that you minimise your website file sizes (graphics, photos, flash etc) so that your loading times are quick for all users. People simply will not visit your website if it is too slow and takes longer that a few seconds to load up each page.
• eCommerce – if you want to set up payment facilities on your website then you will need to make sure these are secure, up to date and encrypted, to protect your customers sensitive information and ensure that check out is quick and easy.
• Social aspect – a good way to try and encourage visitors to stay longer on your site and visit again in the future is to set up social media functions such as blogs and forums.
• Browser Compatibility – not everyone uses Microsoft Internet Explore, so make sure your website is compatible with all of the leading browser software available, including the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator and Opera.

Oh I see, I posted one additional point which is though familiar to everybody but is most important

Designing successful websites is often a difficult and time consuming task, and it can be a good idea to seek further help and advice from professional designers such as Visualscope web site designers. Professional designers will be able to assist you with all aspects of your website from online marketing through to content management systems, and can help you to develop your website further with social functions and improved eCommerce facilities.

Visualscope have some impressive design credits to their name, including popular travel websites ‘Our World Travel’ and ‘Pacific Northwest Journeys’. To find out more about the web design and development services that Visualscope provide you can visit the website at Visualscope.com to see their fascinating portfolio.

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1. They create effective headers.
2. They know their color functions.
3. Designers are good at creating great layouts.
4. Designers know how to pick color schemes.
5. They have  a design process.
6. They have a design playlist for those long days.
7. Designers are good marketers and content writers
8. If they aren’t good at marketing or writing, they know who is.
9. Designers aren’t afraid to network.
10. They know when to stop designing and call it finished.
11. Designers know how to utilize free resources.
12. Good designers understand the importance of doing market research.
13. Designers use visuals to persuade emotion.
14. They know how to build flexible websites.
15. Designers know how to code.
16. If they don’t know how to code, they find someone who does.
17. They know how to sell not possibilities and concepts, not just pretty pictures.
18. They know how to make pretty pictures.
19. They know when to step out of the comfort zone and innovate.
20. They subscribe to Diligent Design

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NDesign-Studio just launched a new icon shop last month called IconDock.com . The website has an awesome collection of premium icon sets that will work with a variety of purposes. The best part about the shop? You can buy individual icons for only $1. That means if you’re just looking for an image to put on a banner or something, you need not spend $50 on the whole set.

The shopping card for Icon Dock is also pretty cool. The drag and drop interface makes it easy to buy icons while you browse the site, as opposed to constantly going back and forth between the cart and other screens. Overall Icon Dock seems like it will be a really awesome resource.

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