tips for better webdesign

For better websites you have to build sites which are user-friendly AND optimized for search engines.

Here are 10 strategies for better webdesign:

1. Use valid HTML/CSS code. Searchengines and users hate wbesites which cannot be read correctly

2. Try to find out the most relevant keywords of your clients. Sort them by relevancy and list the first 12-15 keywords

3. Provide useful and structured content which referes to the keywords

4. Set keywords in bold within the text. Use keywords within the title tag.

5. Use h1-headlines for the most important keywords

6. Use alt-tags for images

7- Design. Try to create an unique and attractive design. High-quality images will impress your visitors. Seach for nice images in the web but do not copy them without permission!

8. Submit your website to the most important search-egnines like google, yahoo ...

9. Try to get new backlinks every weekSearchengines will love that. Be sure not to get bad neighbourhood. Only quality websites should link to you. Directoy listings will provide you with good links when they have a pagerank of 2 or higher.

10. Keep your website actual. A news section will provide visitors and searchengine with new content.

If you have not the time or ability to design a website contact an agency with long-termed experience in webdesigning and seo. Before placiong an order you should check the references. There should be at least 20 web projects from different customers.

When It Comes to Web 2.0, Why You Gotta Be Hatin'?

It's been said that for every culture, there's a counter-culture. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, right? The latter effect against highly stylized and uber-modern Web 2.0 design (for unfortunate lack of a better phrase) has been swift. And in large part, I believe, unjustly served.

I've got designers telling me that if they see another gradient, another cute gel icon ... another 24px Trebuchet header for god's sake, they're throwing in the towel.

Perhaps you're sick of it too. But ask yourself: does it work?

A good designer needs to work above trends, above what's fashionable. A good designer mustn't incorporate or consider style for style's sake. A good designer must ... design good. That is, he must motivate the user to go, to do, to click "Next", to subscribe or sign up, to sell the product.

Good design is not about what's pretty or popular or the next big thing. It's also not about looking hip to your design colleagues because you happen to be bucking the trend du jour. Doing so only means you wind up designing for the trend demain.

Ben Hunt (of webdesignfromscratch.com) lays out the key touchstones of Web 2.0 design:

• Simple layout
• 3D effects, used sparingly
• Soft, neutral background colours
• Strong colour, used sparingly
• Cute icons, used sparingly
• Plenty of whitespace
• Nice big text

It doesn't get much simpler than that. What's the point? These elements work. Don't buck a trend just because you want to be different. Be above the trends and counter-trends. Recognize what works. And utilize it the best way you can.

In Ben's words, "I'm glad to say that web design in 2006 is better than ever ... more web designers know more about how to design than ever before."

Here here.