Navneet Panchariya - Web Designer | UI Designer | Front End Developer

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability; most Internet users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds. Below you will find the summary of the “Speed Up Your Site” series. Those are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast. You can click on each point to read the article with comments from the readers. Optimize Images: always use the “Save for the web” feature included on image editing software. Images represent the heavier load on virtually any website so make sure you are optimizing them. Alternatively you can also turn to an online image optimizer. Image Formats: apart from optimizing images it is important that you choose the right format. JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-color images. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors. Optimize Your CS...

A primary goal of any website or blog should be to provide its visitors with a pleasant and fulfilling experience. Regardless of what market the website is targeting, the opinions of users will play a huge role in determining the site’s level of success. Visitors that have positive experiences will be much more likely to come back later, refer friends, sign up for a newsletter, purchase a product, submit an inquiry about a service, etc. When developing a website, the user’s wants and needs should always be in the forefront of the decision making process. It doesn’t matter what type of website you run, it needs to be user-focused. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the design and development process and create a site that satisfies the designer or the owner but doesn’t really provide visitors with much value. What makes a website user-friendly? There are probably an endless number of factors, but let’s look at five of the major ones. 1. Page Load Spee...

Responsive Web Design is hot. With the rise of all kinds of devices like mobile phones, tablets, internet-TVs, all kinds of form factors for laptops and PCs, the traditional way of designing websites needed to be changed. In the past, you looked up in your statistics for your website what the average lowest denominator screen resolution, browser and browser version was. Then, the designer started to design your website for that lowest common denominator. This is increasingly enviable. There are now so many devices, browsers, screen resolutions that this won't work anymore. Designers now start to work with a small, basic website and then do progressive enhancement; if a device or a browser has more capability, use that. So in summary: be responsive to the context of the end-user. Let the design respond to what the end-user uses to access your content. Design Shouldn't Respond to the Device I had several discussions about responsive design in the las...

When it comes to designing websites, there are a lot of elements involved. Of course, some elements are going to be more important than others. If you are creating your business website, one of the biggest issues that you are going to have to contend with is its usability. Usability refers to how accessible or user-friendly a website can be. The more usability that your site has, the more likely that people will visit, stay, and even invest in your business in some way. If your site is complicated and hard to use, people are going to find somewhere else to do business. It's a simple element among a long list of must-haves, but it is one that can make all the difference. Usability includes a lot of different details. You should make sure that you take the time to create a website that is user-friendly in terms of the following: Layout: The page layout should be simple to follow and give people access to all the tools and information that they need without requiring a lot...