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Want to spruce up your website to meet dynamic specifications? An easy-to-navigate website with a smooth design should be the aim of every webmaster. Web browsers are easily annoyed by slow loading web pages with large image or video files, broken links, and missing graphics. For this, we must cater to them. Budding web designers can visit www.useit.com, a helpful site that discusses interface design and usability to enhance the browsing experience.
The Internet is an ever-changing place where users have to re-equip themselves with important pieces of software and programs that displays the increasing amount of data and perks websites show. For example, the Limewire.com 4.9 version (file sharing program) now requires that users download the newest version of Java to run its program better.
Anyhow, new plug-in file formats and browser quirks are becoming the norm. Users have to retool their web browsers, catering to each websites specifications. For example, you have most likely come across a website that said "best viewed at 400x600 pixels in big, bold text." These are erroneous websites that don't recognize that HTML is built in so that documents can be seen at multiple resolutions, not just theirs.
Poor HTML is the reason for implementing this silly rule. To make matters worse, plenty of e-commerce sites optimize their web pages for one browser (almost always Internet Explorer). This means Firefox and Opera users are excluded from using the features on the site, which in turn, accounts for a decline in prospective customers in the long run. Cross-browser, cross-platform code is possible but many webmasters don't know how to use it.
Black text onto a white background is pretty much the norm in the Web. Colours must always be chosen carefully. A rule of thumb is that adding two colours similar in tone (complementary) are not good (i.e. green and red.) Schemes with similar colours are also a no-no in building websites. Choose two colours that can work together and use further shades of both colours (either darker or lighter) to add a neat palette of colour to your website. Text should always either be black or white on a very dark background. Nevertheless, the basic colours of black and white are the perfect complements and should be your primary option for website colour scheme.
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