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Top 10 Web Design Tips
Tip 1. Know your audience, and keep them in mind when you write.
If your Web pages are frequented by people with slower modems then designing a page that looks best over a T1 is not a successful strategy.
Build Web Pages that Download Fast
Web Site Optimization is Easy!
Web Site Web Optimization:
IntroductionWeb site optimization might seem to be unnecessary. The speed of the Internet is finally getting faster. More and more people are getting high-speed Internet access and that means faster pages, and so the page size can get bigger, right? Even back in 1998, most people were connecting at 56Kbps (GVU's 10th WWW User Survey (October 1998)). This is a shift upwards from the year before. But even with these increases, it is important that you perform Web site optimization on your pages to get the fast download speeds your customers are looking for.
Download Speed a Top Complaint
The three top complaints were speed, ads, and broken links. Speed and ads each had 60% of the people indicate that these were a problem. Ads continue to get more annoying, but they also increase the download times. Web site optimization takes the ads into account so that your readers aren't leaving because the page loaded an ad immediately, but left the content floating in cyberspace.
How Can I Optimize my Web Site for Speedy Downloads?
In a previous article I suggested that you keep your Web pages to around 30K in size, including images. I am not changing this recommendation. I'm not changing it because speed is still a huge issue to readers, and optimizing your site for speed is a critical factor.
But, because the Internet is getting faster, you can create pages that are longer than before. But optimization means that your page is mostly text, as that will have a faster download speed than a page that is primarily images.
There are also other issues in Web site optimization for speed. We'll look at these issues on the following pages.
A single table on a Web page will not slow downloading. But the moment you put one table within another table, it gets more complicated for the browser to render, and so the page loads more slowly.
Nested Tables for Page Layout
When you create a page with tables, keep in mind that the more tables that are within tables, the slower the page will load. Normally, when a page loads the browser starts at the top of the HTML and loads it sequentially down the page. However, with nested tables, it has to find the end of the table before it can display the entire thing.
Frames are a bit trickier than tables when you're speeding up your site. Frames, by their very nature, take a bit more time for the browser to load. Especially the first time the frameset is loaded.
Why can frames be slow?
For every frameset, the browser has to request and download n+1 Web pages, where n is the number of frames in the frameset. The browser first requests the frameset page, which then tells it to load all the frames. These frames are requested from the Web server and delivered to the site.
Unfortunately, there is not a lot to be done about the inherent speed of frames. If you use a framed site, then make sure that each frame in the frameset is small and loads quickly. Keep the images small and use small amounts of text.
