What should a good website contain

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In web design, there are some factors you should consider, when creating a website. Web pages should contain a header, footer and the body. A header is required to bring out continuity to various pages of the site, as well as indicate the main topic of the particular webpage; therefore it should contain a banner that ties various web pages of the site together. The banner should be designed well in such a way that it is attractive to users. The body should have the main textual content of the document, as well as hypertext links to other related websites. The footer should basically have the ownership rights of the website, contact person of the site, webmaster details, institution with which the author is affiliated, navigation links to other pages within the website, date of last revision and a statement of copyright.

Once the essentials are sorted out, then your site must be user friendly. That way, you will gain more audiences in your site, which will be beneficial to you in the long run. Good navigational aids are essential for a good web design meaning, the inclusion of "return to home page", "previous page", and "next page" links on each page will be able to guide users well, while browsing through your site. Another method for easy navigation is, to provide a menu, or a table of contents of the website in each page.

In order to avoid crowding of the screen layout, the header sizes in general should be reduced. Text and various objects such as tables, banners, images should be well spaced out, so that the user can be able to read the website contents easily. The use of graphical content can be effective to add interest in a webpage, but it should be kept to a minimum so that it won't take a long time to load the site.

Colors should be used evenly and only to highlight key elements of the page or to indicate specific functions. For example black is normally used on web pages for the main body of text because, of its legibility on a light background, red is often used to signify danger or warning, while blue is used to indicate hyperlinks, and a shade of purple to indicate links which have already been accessed, by the ohhcurrent user. The main use of colors is to basically catch the eye of the user and be presentable, but at the same time allow users to easily make out, the content in the website.