What Makes a Website Good?
Like most things, there are good websites and bad websites. Distinguishing between good and bad, and realising why they are and what makes them good or bad, however, is based on many guidelines that websites should follow to be successful.
For starters, there are some web standards to be followed and present in each website that wishes to be a successful site. There are many web standards, including recommended markup languages (like HTML, XHTML, etc) to ensure that the site is accessible by as many devices as possible. There also need to be at least basic standards for ECMAScript, or more commonly JavaScript.
Getting the right balance between moving images and non-moving images is another thing to think about when designing a website. Deciding on whether to use fixed or fluid features on the website can be important as if there is constant movement, for example, it could force someone off the site as they may not be used to that kind of movement on a website. However, if there are just copious amounts of standard, still images, that could be seen as boring, or cluttered on the page.
It can be important to use the right colours when creating a web page. If a web site is made with newer, or perhaps custom-made colours, then it could be possible that older systems may not recognise those colours and cause visual errors on the page. Using websafe colours eliminates the chances of this, and, as the name suggests, is a set of colours that are safe for usage on the web without any worries about compatibility.
Consistency can be a problem for some people, as well. If a site has a navigation bar, for example, on the top of the page, it is advised that the navigation bar stays there for the whole of the web site and its links, as if it were moving around to different places on different pages, it could prove annoying or cause people to lose their place on a website and less likely to return in future. Therefore, it is best if features of a website are kept in one place once set.
In older browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6 (or even older), there can often be a problem with many websites, as the browser may be too primitive to effectively navigate a website. If, for example, Google search did not work on Internet Explorer 6, then that would be a problem. Most of the time, on such browsers, the website will not be completely inaccessible but certain functions and visual effects may be disabled on that site in that browser. Therefore, it is best to make a website available equally for every browser.
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