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1. Fonts What is the font you use in your website? Is it a default font or a font, which is user friendly to the visitors? Some of the fonts are good for Print but might not suit well for a Web page. Think about the font before building a Website.

2. Color Colors in a Website play a major role too. Because of the way eyes work, darker colors tend to bleed light colors. Carefully choose your background color and foreground colors for your Website.

3. Punctuation and Capitalization Imagine reading a couple of sentences without any punctuation or capitalization. Visitors get frustrated if they have to read a long sentence without any punctuation.

4. Structure and Layout Is your website layout clean and the structure of the website. Can anyone access your website or just for Mac/IE users. Structure your website so that everyone can view your site.

5.Updated Pages/ Fresh Content Having an entire Website worth of content on one page. Readers give up long before they come to the footer. It is helpful to split the content into different pages and users wont appreciate the wait downloading text they already


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6. Broken Links Broken links makes your Website look out of date, so check your link if it works properly. It is better to use a link checker and find out the broken links. It is also useful for the spiders to crawl the site easily

7. Huge Images Think about modem users. Huge images can cause them to cancel the loading of a page before the first line. Think about what is important, the message you want to convey or the Image. Some of the sites needs image but not all sites want a huge image in the Home page

8. Good Navigation Bar

9. Check for Server Errors on a regular basis

10. Is your Website Printer Friendly? Consider building your site printer friendly.

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