If you are a print designers, you might be new to the concept of website designing, which includes a numbers of other complex principles and techniques beside common design laws. This article compiles typical web design notes for beginners.

1 – Easy navigation

This is the most important factor deciding if visitors want to stay long in your site or not. An easy navigation is like glue that sticks your web pages together. It is much more comfortable for clients to visit a website with closely organized and understandable structure. The web navigation system should be made before designing by experienced people. Designers are responsible for arranging the system neatly in web pages so that viewers can find it easy to follow. This is the most important task to keep in mind.

Arranging the system neatly on the web also means that it has to be clean and usable. Use much white space to enhance your site’s look and focus on your main content. It is recommended to utilize Dreamweave Templates and defaut fonts for computers. Importantly, your design should be synchronous and well-structured to make it possible for later CSS and HTML work.

Tables are no longer a good choice for today web designers. It takes much time to load and effort to repair. Meanwhile, pure CSS has become the best option for web designers because it offers accessibility, flexibility and resusibility for your site. There are lots of advantages to talk around CSS programming. Generally speaking, as it is widely used in most of the websites nowadays, CSS programming is highly recommended to use to make a good website template instead of table based websites. Please remmember to optimize all of the graphics, flash and script for fast speed of the website. Above all, your code should be scalable to be suitable with the advanced technology and configuration of screen resolutions and platforms.

One of the most important things that designers should keep in mind is to design with all screen resolution. If your screen wide is 1440x900, yet many others' are 1280x1024, there will be difference in your site's appearance. It is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes because there are more than 40,000 different screen resolutions, in which 1024x768 is the most popular resolution used by around 60% of viewers. A monochrome or repeated graphics background is regarded as a resolution to this problem and applied by most of the web designers in the world.

Please test your website on all cross browsers like Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Opera 7+, Safari 3+ and Netscape Navigator 6+ for suitability before publishing the site because these ones tale up about 95% of all world's browsers.