7 Inspiring Website Designing Ideas

Designing a Website with a strong conceptual design and paying close attention to some basic rules about visual design, interface, usability, navigation and style will have a better foundation to build on. The following design ideas can help you create a compelling Website that grows gracefully:

1. Simple, Easy and Clean

Creating a simple and easy navigational system is one of the most important elements to creating a Website. The only frustrating thing for your visitors/users is, not being able to find what they're looking for. Make navigation easy and simple so the the visitors can easily navigate in all sections your website and make sure he/she can navigate from every page. Providing a site map of your website at the bottom of every page (in a footer) would be good practice.

Example: Home > Section > Sub Section > Final Destination

You can best do this by creating a set of links to each of the main sections and placing it at the top (under header) or side of every page. Using a graphic icons can make your navigation more attractive. Your goal is to make sure that viewers don't have to use the Back button in their browsers to move around your site.


2. Design - Audience First

It doesn't matter how technically interactive a Web site is or how great the usability, user interact with the design first. Make sure that design for your Web site should be user friendly. The right design is one that best suits your audience — that may or may not mean lots of fancy graphics and animations.

3. White Space Consistentancy

One of the best design features you can add to a page is white space. White space gives the eye a rest, something readers/users need even more often when they're staring at a computer screen. White space can be use to separate one type of information from another and to focus the viewer's attention where you want it most. Some of the most beautiful and compelling designs on the Web use only a few well-thought-out elements against lots of white space.

4. Back-up Your Website

Always keep in mind that you have a system in place to back up your Web site. Make sure you have a copy of all the files that are on your server in a separate location and update it regularly to make sure you have the latest version of your site backed up at all times. Even the best Internet Service Providers sometimes have technical problems, so you should keep a backup of your site where you have easy access to it and can get it back online quickly if something ever does happen to delete any or all the files you have on the server.

5. Small & Fast

Making sure that your pages download quickly makes your viewers more likely to keep clicking. If your page designs take a long time to download, here are a few tips to make them load faster:


First, If you have a large Flash introduction at your home page try to reduce the size or have a option in the page for the users to skip large multimedia files. You especially don't want to make users wait too long for the first page of your site. If you noticed that static images are the problem, consider compression methods and use a program such as Photoshop, Fireworks or ImageReady that are designed for optimizing images for the Web. Finally, use Dreamweaver's code cleanup feature to get rid of extra tags that can contribute to a heavier page.

6. Follow the 3 Clicks Rule

This rule define that no important piece of information should ever be more than three clicks away from anywhere else on your Website. The most important information should be even closer at hand. Some information, such as contact information, should never be more than one click away. Make it easy for viewers to find information by creating a site map and a navigation bar — a set of links to all the main sections on your site.

7. Provide A Site Map

As your site grows, It is tought to provide easy access to all the information on your Website. One of the better solution is to provide a site map, which is a page that includes links to almost every other page in the site. This page should be fully functional — it doesn't matter if it looks pretty or not. Don't put lots of graphics on this page; it should load quickly and provide easy access to anything that your visitors need.

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