There are some rules about website design that should be adhered to in order to make your website as navigable and readable as possible. The scope of the internet is so vast, the attention span of the average visitor is tiny that you need to make sure it is as quick and easy as possible for your visitor to get the information they need.

This article concerns itself with website text. The words that make meaning from those pretty pictures and menus on the page.

The first rule is; No text line should be wider than 600 pixels.

Magazines and newspapers use column layouts because it makes lines short so you can easily read the text from one sentence to the next. A well designed site will have the text in a similar layout so it is easy to read and navigate. Good publishing rules when using text, whatever the medium, is plenty of white space, short paragraphs and snappy sentences. The website has limited space and limited time to get its message across to its audience. Short, engaging text will help you achieve that.

The second rule is; Make the text easy to read.

Use colors wisely. If you website has a colored background, dark or light, choose a text color that is easily read even at 16 color screen resolution. It is easy to forget that not everyone has the latest computers with LCD widescreens. When designing a site, it has to look good at different resolutions in order to work effectively. It’s hard to read light text on a light background or dark text on a dark one. Choose colors carefully and make sure the contrast between them is enough to make it readable. Never put text over an image or a textured background, it will be really difficult to read.

The third rule is; Ensure the text layout works.

Similar to rule number one, but different. The text on a web page needs to be large enough to read. It is an obvious point to make, but it is important enough that it needs making. Nobody wants to squint at their screen in order to read a page. The absolute minimum text size for any site should be 12pt for paragraph text. Use line spacing to your advantage too. Don’t necessarily plump for single line spacing, play with it a bit until it the text looks right on the page. White spaces makes the text more readable and the page more pleasurable to read.

The last rule is; Grammar and spelling.

Use a spell checker, always. Even if you have a degree in English Literature, use a spell checker. There is nothing that says “amateur” more than a site with spelling mistakes. I write for a living but still use it. Most web designers I know use it. To take this a step further, ensure you use correct grammar. Don’t use all caps, or more than one “!” in a sentence. Make sure you end a sentence with a period and use commas appropriately.

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A good business website will always be open.  You can sell or promote your products while you’re out relaxing, or doing something else.  You can sell while asleep or trying to land a marlin, it doesn’t matter how you spend your time, just that you are open to trade.

Even if you don’t want to do e-commerce and sell things over the internet, a good web presence is invaluable for promoting you or your business.  If nobody sees you, you may as well not be there.  That’s why it’s so important to get your website just right.  Think of it as a virtual store.  You open your real store or office and make sure it’s clean and inviting for visitors.  Make sure they can see what they need or can get to it easily, then find their way to the till.  A website should be thought of in exactly the same way.

If you don’t already have a website then RT Design group can help make this all a reality, and for much less than you would imagine.  A quick call or email to the studio and we can arrange for a free, no obligation quote where we can discuss your needs and what we can do to meet them.

The RT Design Group Lehigh web design team can either design something from scratch, integrate your own ideas, use your existing site or all of the above!

Here are some of the things we can do for you;

• Custom Web Designs
• Site Redesigns/Updates
• Splash screens
• Graphic Design
• Logos and Branding
• Wordpress and Drupal Theme creation
• Animations
• And much more!

Every day that visitors click through your site rather than linger and order, you lose money.  Nobody in business wants that.  Let your local web design team help you appeal to both local and a global audience and help you start making more money, now!

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I’ll definitely be posting on here more in the coming weeks. Cape Coral is a big area and we definitely offer web design for your area, stay tuned!

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