The Looks
Ok, so we’ve covered the ads, experience..etc angles for new webmasters, we tried to give advice on everything to start a good and a clean website but we forgot the most important one.
The looks of the site, by looks I mean the template/skin, I’m not talking about creating your own skin or making lots and lots of customizations, I’m talking about the looks of any skin out there, every skin is “beautiful” in its own way but sadly I see sites that turn one of the best skins to the ugliest disasters out there.
When you want to edit your site’s skin, try to be organized about it, if you’re going to add a new block make it match the skin and place it in an appropriate place, not just in any freakin empty space, also make sure that your website looks the same in all most common used web browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari..etc, the easiest way in doing that is to make sure that your site has a valid XHTML and CSS template, sometimes that doesn’t always work and some specific fixes needs to be added (another reason to hate IE!), but try to do your best.
I’ve seen sites with a container width 800px, and they add another block in header or footer that just expands and stretches the hell out of the website, if you don’t know what you’re doing then my advice to you is just don’t do it.
Keep your website professional, in looks and management, your site’s looks is a huge factor on your return traffic, if your site is messed up, a user will visit once with the typical “oh god, wtf is this” comment, but if you keep your website clean in every angle, your site will be more interesting to your guests and visitors.
Keep the scene clean people.
Article by el_jentel1