Comments on: The Ten Web Site Commandments http://www.drostdesigns.com/the-ten-web-site-commandments/ Web Site Design, Hosting and Marketing Tips and Tricks Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robert (visitor from France) http://www.drostdesigns.com/the-ten-web-site-commandments/#comment-12443 Robert (visitor from France) Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:06:44 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/the-ten-web-site-commandments/#comment-12443 Great commandments. I wish I had heard about number 6 earlier. I created my site 2 years ago in a wider format and after writting hundreds of pages, I had a professional tempate designer who convinced me to go to width 800. However, none of my pages looked right then. I had a wide navigation panel on the left side, which I had to convert to a horizontal menu as it no longer fit in the reduced page width. I had information on the right side which also had to be moved. In the end, I had to redesign every single page.... took ages. Based on this, I'm tempted to suggest a 11th commandment: 11) Get a professional graphics designer to do a smashing layout so that you will never want to redo all your work. Alternatively, use a package like wordpress or use CSS so that you can easily reformat all pages automatically rather than doing every one by hand. Great commandments. I wish I had heard about number 6 earlier. I created my site 2 years ago in a wider format and after writting hundreds of pages, I had a professional tempate designer who convinced me to go to width 800. However, none of my pages looked right then. I had a wide navigation panel on the left side, which I had to convert to a horizontal menu as it no longer fit in the reduced page width. I had information on the right side which also had to be moved. In the end, I had to redesign every single page…. took ages.

Based on this, I’m tempted to suggest a 11th commandment:
11) Get a professional graphics designer to do a smashing layout so that you will never want to redo all your work. Alternatively, use a package like wordpress or use CSS so that you can easily reformat all pages automatically rather than doing every one by hand.

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