How to choose a good web hosting service

Choosing a good web hosting service has made many website designers fail in what ever quest they aim at reaching. This is because they are a key factor to the success of your website weather selling your products online or making money through other ways with your website.

Good web hosting services usually give the following benefits to their customers

1. Free domain name
2. Unlimited space
3. 99%-100% uptime
4. Money back guarantee

A list of good web hosts have been put together by Goodhost.org. Good website hosting services can be found there.

Web design tips

Here are some essential web design tips that are sure to make your website a place where you will gain traffic and people are sure to revisit next time. Weather it is a website for selling your products or a website to make money, these web design tips are sure to make you reach your expected goal.

Professional looking websites: The look of your website determines the chances weather a visitor to your website will stay or leave at the first impression your site gives them. Think of a website with black fonts on blue backgrounds or a website with Comic sans flooded all over the website, if you know whats best for your website design, don't try any of the combinations listed above, try something like black fonts on white backgrounds, it has always worked since the dawn of the internet. Try good font color and background color and ask friends if they blend with each other.
NOTE: I suggest you do not use most warm colors e.g red or yellow, studies have found out that they weaken the retina when looking at it for long there by making the users eyes feel tired and as a result navigate away from your page. If you don't believe this try it out yourself by looking at a red backgrond for about 30 seconds and then looking at a white background, you will see a blue aura on the screen, this is due to the tiredness of the retina.

Use of graphics and animation: The use of graphics and animation can affect a websites speed and looks. This is due to the fact that a website with lots of image content takes a lot of time to load, if you have'nt noticed try it out, pages like this often make visitors leave the website for another because it will take a lot of their time, this will occur if the images you put in you website design are large in size. To make sure something like this does'nt occur, make sure you reduce the image content and it is advisable to use this memory in your website design

1) Graphic Design Layout: Should be no more than: 30-50K in size
2) Programming Pages: Shouldn't be more than: 10-30k in size

Fast laoding pages: In the world of the internet today, people no longer wait for more than 30 seconds for a page to load except for a website with high priority to the users. Research has hown that many users navigate away from a page that takes more than 15 seconds to load, this shows you that this problem must be solved if you are to have a good website. The chances of getting traffic to the website will be minimal if the website takes a long time to load, this makes users irritated and leave the page immediately , at the end of the day, you lose not them because there are other competitors within your field which they can go to instead of your website. Instead of loosing, make it a win-win bargain between you and your customers by making sure the tips listed above are followed.