Tips to build an Effective Website

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1. Give Priority to the Website User's Needs design for the users of the website and see things from a visitor's perspective while designing.
   1. Use Clear, Maintainable and Easy Navigation so the website is easy to use for both the visitor and webmaster.
   2. Clean and Consistent Layout Design with lots of white space for readability.
   3. Design for all Screen Resolutions - Design your website in such a way that it looks inviting to everyone.
   4. Ensure Cross Browser Compatibility - Design your website in such a way that it is usable by everyone.
2. Program using pure CSS for optimum accessibility and reusability. CSS considerably reduces file size apart from giving greater control over the look of your website.
3. Optimize Load Time: Make sure your load time is low and test for your website's performance often. For this you must:
   1. Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size.
   2. Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.
   3. Use Server Side Include (SSI) files wherever possible. Includes once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.
   4. Use Server and Client caching of your web page static content (Images, JS, CSS and HTML files).
   5. Set Expires Header - The optimal expiry time for your static content is 'more than 7 days'.
   6. Minify CSS and JS code - remove all spaces, comments and line breaks from your CSS and javascript files.
4. Ensure a Scalable and Reliable Website - Get a reliable web host and make sure the website design allows for future enhancements.
5. Test Early Test Often (TETO)