The most significant aspects that should be considered while designing a web site is see to it that the web site is attractive, fast-loading, user friendly, focuses on your content and has a high amount of glue factor attached to it! (It makes your visitor stay longer on your site). Instead of making very complex designs with less content or only designs crowded together along with the content, we recommend that you find the right balance between both.

Layout and Navigation

It is advisable to use decent layout and neat navigation by using more white space in your web page. It definitely shall enhance the look of your site. Always keep focus on the content. That is why we recommend using dream weaver templates for your site - all pages or a group of pages have one basic design and only the content varies - this way even if your site is a little distracting due to unavoidable effects, the visibility of your site increases and the visitor gets focused on the content automatically.

If you have too many links then you should use drop-down menus or fly outs for your main topics. If you have Fireworks or Dream weaver then macromedia drop-down menus are one of their most popular in-built "Behaviors”.

Enhance the Look and Feel of your site

Some design elements work wonders to enhance the look of your site. We have described some of our favorites below. Most of them require Macromedia Fireworks, which generates all the HTML and JavaScript code involved, so all you have to do is go ahead and design a fabulous site!

Simple Rollover Buttons & Images

Here, a button or image changes itself on rolling over it (onMouseOver event) and reverts back to the original image on rolling out of the web object (onMouseOut event).

Rollover Swap Images

Here, a group of web objects [web object - a slice, hotspot, or button] trigger the change in the display of another graphic on rolling over them (onMouseOver event) and reverts back to the original image on rolling out of the web object (onMouseOut event).

Graphic and Photo Effects

You might have seen many sites and must have been amused and wondered "how did they do that?” Most "wow" sites use various graphic and photo effects. What you need to become an expert at is how to use these effects in the correct amount and not over do it.

Site Interactivity

Macromedia Flash is very useful to add interactivity to your site. 95% of the world's browsers have the Flash Player plug-in, so you don't have to think about compatibility as long as your movie can be played by lower versions of the Flash Player. Try having a HTML and Flash Sections "Entry (Splash) Page" if you have a heavy movie to accommodate users on slow connections.

Interactive Applications: To make your web site stickier you can add a few simple interactive applications like site polls, surveys, a guest book, an event calendar, newsletter sign-up, etc. There are many applications on the net but you need to choose them carefully if you do a lot of online business.

We at AIT – India Center are capable of delivering top-quality web design & web programming services for our clients. We create sites that are highly professional W3C Standard compliant and load-time optimized websites at reasonable prices which give us an edge as compared to our competitors. We give more “value for money" to our clients without compromising on the quality. No matter what your requirements are, our team is capable of delivering a website that’s above your expectations.

If you are really looking at designing an attractive, effective and affordable web site, AIT is the right place!