Six Simple Rules to Follow when Creating a Website

1. Accessibility

Your website including all the content that’s available on it, must be accessible to all individuals including those with disabilities. Ensure that your website is accessible using applications such as Home Page Reader.

2. Follow Standards

Make sure you use W3C standards as much as possible. Following the standards gives you browser independence and since not everyone will use the same browser as you do, it will only ensure that your website appears as you meant it to be on every browser.

3. Use Latest technologies

Take help of latest tools for designing your website. They not only save time but also validate your site for compliance with built-in tools. Use database for large sites to save time updating its content. Moving your website from one host to another is easy with all your content stored in database.

4. Optimize your website

Don’t use heavy graphics on your website. This will increase the loading time and people with slow Internet connections may not wait till your site is completely open. Try to take help of graphic editor applications [such as Photoshop, Photo Editor] to optimize your images for web and if possible keep the size of any page under 100k for optimal loading.

5. External scripting

Instead of embedding the scripts such as CSS and Javascript in the HTML pages itself, try to attach them to your HTML pages. This will reduce the size of your HTML pages and also when you want to update your CSS, you will have to edit it in one place instead all HTML pages. The same is with javascript as well.

6. Check the log files

Get into the habit of regularly checking your website’s log files for any errors, visitors statistics and other important things. Check for broken links and fix them before your visitors stop coming back to your website for more.

You may want to refer to [Simple and Quick Steps to Web Site Maintenance]