Designing the Homepage - this is the most important page with the website as most uses will land on it, relative to other internal pages of your website. Users should be up to navigate to your most important pages. Use bullet points to summarise your entire value proposition to convince the user to stay onsite. Users attention Span is extremely short when visiting websites. Expectations are high and users are not forgiving for slow loading pages, difficult to navigate or confusing on the eye. Make sure your homepage can load within 3 seconds… don’t use too many images or technologies that are potentially incompatible with some users PCs (not everyone has got what Flash has got installed for instance). Navigation – the most important aspect of usability is a clean and simple navigational structure. Your structure must be consistent across all pages so users have a clear understanding of how to find their way between sections and back again. A horizontal menu system at the top of the page (similar to the way in which this website is laid out) is a widely used an easy to understand method of navigation. A vertical menu is useful as a sub menu from the main menu. Make sure that your main menu includes a button or link to your homepage, contact us and sitemap. To supplement your main menu you may also use a ‘breadcrumb’ drill > down > summary is also useful to highlight the page the user has entered. Use of colours to highlight the menu item the user has landed on is a simple way of to help the use understand where they are.Graphic Design - perhaps the hardiest and most emotive area of web design is graphic design. It consumes of beginners time and invariably is best left to the professional graphic designer. Think back to your marketing objectives.. Is your new web site going to be paid brochure only website, shopping basket, forum or portal? Ignore your own personal preferences of regards to the colour and style.. The only thing that matters is the expectations of your potential buyers. Have they dealt with your company before? Do you have an existing brand, logo, slogan and colour scheme which your site must adhere to? If in doubt just keep things simple. Used lots of white space, neutral colours such as dark blues and dark greens and business like fonts such as Tahoma or Verdana. A quick and easy solution is to purchase a website template and there are literally thousands to buy online. Be aware that one in twelve people are colour blind who find it difficult to distinguish between red and green.Sitemaps – a site map is the page to help at your users your list of every single page on site. In should be a hierarchical and ideally link based. Other versions of sitemaps that are of less importance to users but of critical importance to search engines are sitemap.xml, robots.txt and urllist.txt. These files are one of the first files search bots look before in order to cash and copy new or updated web pages. Javascript – try and keep your site easy to load an navigate around. The use of some scripts and the DHTML sometimes throws up security and compatibility issues are between browsers. Search – but a search box on every page to allow a free text query by user that can retrieve any page on the site. This is more appropriate for very large sites. Major search engines provide a quick and easy solution of joining search to your site.Page Structure – try and suspect the areas of your page up but into a top border, side border, bottom border and main body. Try and summarise each page with bullet points near the top and the left of the body area. Have you need to try and entice users to browse the rest of the page of after the first few seconds by skimming the bullets.Screen Resolution Issues - different users still use a but screen resolutions depending upon they’re operating system default setting, preferred setting, browser type and whether or not they have poor eyesight. Able to create a website design that caters for all screen resolutions by specifying everything inside the table set to 100%. This means for larger screen resolutions your website will automatically reduce and be squeezed together. Bear this in mind when choosing font sizes, and creating of the top navigational menu (if you limit the menu width to 800 pixels you will cater for users width the largest 800 x 600 resolution). Internal links – from a usability perspective, always use absolute URL’s as opposed to relative URLs. This will ensure simpler page updating when creating files that are not in the root directory.Images and video – question the use of every image to convey the message Of each page. Images slowdown what page loading time. Always optimize each image before you upload it to make sure it condenses to the right width and height and is designed for web browsing. Always add an ALT text (this is an HTML script that allows alternative text when non-textual elements such as images).  Typically used to show a short description of an image when hovering the curser over it.to the images source to help searchbots understand what the image is showing.Frames – avoid losing frames whenever possible because there are difficult to navigate, difficult to design, stop searchbots from caching (a search engine crawls and ranks URLs using algorithms and places them in a database hierarchically), important pages and confusing for users trying to bookmark a particular page .