Stay Attractive with Faster Websites

Written by GdroiD Saturday, 13 February 2010 04:48

Have you ever experienced long time loading when opening a website? What did you feel about that? Yes, it is right when you feel like you can fall asleep while waiting certain website to open. That is actually what most visitors feel whenever they try to direct the link into your long-time-loading website. Of course there is no way you want to have the visitors running away at the first act. So, a good and fast web design must be the main characteristics for your website.

Generally, there are several tips to avoid that irritating moment happens to you and that covers the contents and layouts of your sites. The first easy tips is to design your website as simple as possible but without ignoring the attracting elements. You can minimize images or decide the number of images displayed on the websites to save more space.

Thus, it will reduce the loading time. Secondly, choose the number of colors you need and optimize the images by using gif or jpeg format. The less colors applied determine the size of the images.

Furthermore, best design doesn’t always have to include more colors and pictures, you may pick tables creatively. Since tables are only HTML code, they will appear fast and it results the fast loading. Thirdly, try to minimize the using of animated gifs or flash. It is true that animated gifs and flash attract more eyes, but sometimes it slows down the loading time. Put the needed-only animated gifs and flash on important pages or sections on your sites. Next, it is better to use simple and small icons to replace the animated gifs if you like. As a background, pick background images rather than big images.

Additionally, others simple ways are by applying CSS style. CSS style will attract visitor with great text effect and it doesn’t impact the website to load longer because it is only HTML code. Knowing that HTML is more profitable, you can use as much as HTML in your design so it can go faster. Indeed, to prove that your website has good time loading, you can check for its consistency through NetMechanic, a free service to analyze the website load time. (fallen)