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ISSUES IN DESIGNING WEBSITES

In design of websites, several issues are important to take into account. Many of these are self-evident when we think about the function and purpose of websites. In addition to the fact that the pages should work, they should preferably be visually attractive, clear in presentation, and easy to use.

To be effective for their intended purpose, however, the content must be credible and convincing.

Following is a brief consideration of the items that deserve special attention while designing your websites:

Become familiar with your software: Several commercial and downloadable software are available to design websites. Substantial differences exist in their properties, but even the most simple ones can produce websites that work. Before start using one, spend some time to become familiar with all its capabilities.

Be consistent throughout the design: Like in any graphic design including serial documents, e.g. a slide show, the preferable practice to follow is the consistency of the material throughout. The same applies to websites as well, which should be built around one template, that is appropriately modified to prepare individual pages, rather than make every page using a different template. .

Take special care of graphics: Graphics software of today offer incredible flexibility and properties that are of particular use in design of websites. The potentials of these should be used to illustrate your sites and make them alive.

Test the navigation: Tremendous differences exist between different websites in their navigation. This reflects the diversity of views and personal preferences in presenting subjects in a logical sequence. Even the complex sites may be easy to navigate, however, if special care is taken about this important functional property of websites.

Think about and test readability: Readability is closely linked with navigation, but in addition, it includes other important items as well. Issues such as style and size of the font, selection of the colours for typeface and background, all contribute to readability of the sites. In most cases, an approach towards simplicity will give the best result.

Control for accessibility: Different sites have tremendous differences in their accessibility, which can be due to several reasons. Once setting up new pages, do not forget to check this important property. In case you are not happy, experts can advice you how to improve the accessibility of your sites.

Credibility of content: In dealing with health issues of human subjects, the reader should expect that the information given in such websites should be credible. As we all know, this is not always the case. Generally speaking, publishing information at your website that is not credible, does not serve any useful or acceptable purpose. Thus, every attempt should be made to control the credibility of the content of your websites.

Optimisation: Usually this refers to properties of the websites that make them easily detectable by the different searching engines (like Google and others). This property has accentuated along with the exponential increase in the content of www. Many of the professional website design software include properties that can be inserted in the websites to increase their optimisation in this respect. It might be useful to control the searchability of your sites, and test the effect of different modifications in their coding, at the stage when sending the sites to your server.

At the moment, designing websites is not among the leading business activities of SMW Consultants. This bears, however, several important links to our mission of promoting the publication of high-quality medical research, and thus selected among the subjects, where our company can make an active contribution.

SWM Consultants is ready to provide these services equally well to individual scientists, research groups, medical writers, pharmaceutical companies and to any other publisher of health-related sites in internet.

Why not plan together, how to increase the impact of your publishing at web!