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Keeping it Clean
Many experts say it again and again, to keep your pages consistent so your users do get the feel of professionalism and hard work that was placed into making your page. With the web and design becoming easier and easier it tends to slip the people making them that consistency is one of the factors that makes a web page great and one that is sure to keep users coming back.
Inconsistent design makes pages look gaudy and sways possible re-visits from happening. With the incursion of social media and other web components such as widgets that clutter up the place it makes for one messy page indeed. Keep it clean and organized, besides you end up having to weave through the clutter in the event of problems as you try to fix them.
Need Development Help?
Then you could try Hyperpolyglot.org, a place where most development pages are represented side by side giving you an idea of how they work. One of the most common problems with web development is that some pages are developed using different languages. The site caters to developers who need information on how to best get all these development platforms to work together with samples and a forum where you could send in questions and get answers from developers like yourself.
Opens as a reference page that more or less presents most development languages and their kin. Describing similarities as well as differences making for one brief and concise development reference page.
Not resizing file sizes – small mistake, big booboo
It’s surprising how many PHP programmers make the mistake of ignoring many of the basics, such as resizing big files. Big files make load times significantly slower, and are a bane to impatient people and people with slow internet connection speeds.
Failing to resize you large files makes you an unintentional elitist – it’s like you hung a sign on your site that says “Folks with slow internet connections speed are NOT welcome here.”
It’s a simple enough tip, but many ignore or overlook it precisely because of that. You might have a fast internet connection, but chances are many viewers don’t enjoy the same luxury. And maximizing viewership is a must for every website, and big files that cause delays in loading times totally defeat the purpose, especially with the shot attention span many people have when browsing the net.