The design of your website to the masses

The design of your website to the masses A wise man once said,? The needs of many outweigh the needs of one. Commercial web development can not be more profitable or more certain would be a better way to put the case that no it.In? I know, most Inteet surfers in the United States is the connection to the Inteet using a modem dial-up yet. When I said a year ago could not? Believe. Since I had my broadband connected my whole world has changed. I was able to download a song in less than 6 days, and in fact try a demo? Real? computer game. Not to mention being able to see streaming video in real time and not having to compress at all. From that moment he? Back.That not wait for the traffic to my sites started to decline gradually over the course of a month or two. What was happening was that the content was put on my website is simply too much for regular dial-up connection to handle. People only wait so long (and believe me, ISN? Not so) before you click the Back button and go to a site to load faster. I came on pages 150 and 200k in size. This was too much, the standard rule for page size has been discussed, but from what I gathered from my research I would say around 60k. And since you risk losing your browser to its competitor.Want a great example of a user-friendly, fast Web site? Just visit and see what I mean. Watch how fast the page loads. Sometimes the best thing is the least.So cool Flash intro or music is impressive in its place? You have to go? Well, mostly yes, but not quite. You can always put an option on its home page that asks people to click on the version of your site that you want to view, high or low bandwidth. My advice is to miss the bells and whistles that take up much space. Believe it or not most people, when they reached a Flash intro on a website, simply click the? Skip intro? link. This means that if you have one? Skip intro? link. If one can never see, again, surfers, confidence me.There are a lot of things you can add to a webpage that does not occupy space 90k. JavaScript interactive effects can do wonders for a page, and DHTML and other languages. Ask yourself a favor, take a tutorial or two of these things, the best time for your customers? S experience or eaed? No need to worry about.Webmasters customers will tell you that a text link can win $ 200 Flash Banner every day. Put your score? S shoes. If you connect to the network via a broadband connection and then make sure you view your site with a dial-up quality control. Also, be sure to see your website in different browsers as well. The most important ones are Inteet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera. If you look good in all these are very ok.Remember then, what do you think is good and worth waiting for a download, other people may hate. If you want to build a site for the masses then sacrifices will have to do is to choose wisely what you be.Be sure to visit my new blog on my latest tips on designing for the web warriors weekend away there.Jim Nesbitt CIW