Till the date, you must have developed number of websites for yourself and must have designed such a good website that you can attract many website viewers but the fact still remains unclear somewhere in your mind that why are you not getting the business that you must have got with such excellent websites, right? If the answer is yes, there is a good time for you to think on adding a piece of code that adds a hit counter in your website. Hit counter is nothing but a counter that keeps the record of number of times your website has been visited. It is just a small piece of code that can be added into your website to implement hit counter.

Now, there must be a new question in your mind, what would be the advantage of adding an additional piece of code in such a heavily loaded website, right and what would be the additional cost for the same? To add an amusement factor in your thoughts, let me tell you that there is no cost of getting this piece of code and there are many websites providing the free hit counters. Now, let us discuss about the advantages provided by website hit counters.

As I said, the basic advantage is about getting the figure of visitors visiting your website but that is not the actual advantage. The actual advantage is the analysis provided by website hit counters. The analysis includes the kind of people visiting your website as well as part of world that is visiting your website. With such a classy analysis, you would be able to make out the class of visitors visiting your website and you would certainly be able to make out the strategy to attract other class of people to your website by providing them with their interest of activity on your website. This would definitely get you more traffic.

Now, this is not the end of analysis. Another analysis would give you the reports of particular class of visitors on particular time. This would help you in a way that you would be able to make out the time of period when certain kinds of visitors are coming to your website. Accordingly, you can set the priority to the task they love to do on their particular time.

I am sure, now you are pretty much convinced about getting that piece of code into your website, isn’t it? Just go and search for them on Google and within minutes, you will get them for free.

As the time is growing, the craze of building a website is also growing. I would rather say that a trend of website is growing due to the need of having a website to build the business. With that, there are many organizations that have introduced the website development tools to help developers developing new websites and many developers have responded with purchasing the website development tools and have started developing websites for one or the many clients.

But the bitter truth is not all of them have come to the expectations of their client due to lack of quality in website designing. The reason is simple, not following the fundamentals of developing websites. Let us look at these fundamentals that are necessary to develop a successful website.

1. Website Usability:

Website Usability is the basic fundamental of website designing. A website should be design in such a way that a website browser should easily get what he is looking for in a website. With this, there should be a good navigation system that can guide a user to important pages.

Site should not look complex to find something in. There should be use of appropriate graphics with the current trend rather than designing old fashioned website. A website should be such that even a newbie website user should be able to find it easy to browse through the website.

2. Website Design

Website design is another important aspect of developing a successful website design. It is important to not to place everything on a first place. Just give an easy and simple design to browse through the website. It is advised to use light colors in the website rather than filling it up with the dark shades and use lighter images rather than just feeding it up with heavy images. Again, a navigation system is a part of website design, so make it simple.

3. Modest Content

It is always advised to use best of the content on your website which should be a same day latest rather than providing good old fashioned content on the website. For updating the content every day, you can hire a content writer to find out the latest content on the product website is offering and should update the website with it.

If a website is product selling website, it is advisable to take feedback from the customers and placing it onto the website. This will give a good idea to new buyers about the product and buyers would be encouraged to buy the product from your website.

If these fundamentals are followed by a website designer, I am sure, a good website would be developed that can attract many website browsers.

A good web designer is that one person who can very easily make amazing website designs keeping in mind the latest trends. When you are in a designer’s job do not forget the basics learnt from internet and books.  Mentioned below are a few ideas that can be used while designing the web site.

Swap Images: Swapped images look absolutely fantastic and are fun while designing. Even visitor’s find it interesting and interactive. There are a few software’s available that help in swapping images while designing.

Rollover Images: Rollover Images are also another favorite. It is extremely easy and also adds a bit of style to the website. Usage of less images means lesser load time hence you could switch over to text rollovers.

DHTML: If your site has too many sub menus or confusing navigation systems then using DHTML is a better option. Using DHTML is very simple as well as it makes the website look neat. Many sites also offer DHTML scripts free for menus, tip boxes, navigation systems and more. Companies also provide detailed instructions regarding the usage of these scripts and hence it becomes easier to install.

Flash: Designing an entire web site in terms of Flash is not recommended however it might be a great idea to prepare an interesting flash and then inserting small flash animated things on just the important pages on the web site. Make sure to always optimize these flash animations.

Eye-catching Graphics: Always try and make eye-catching graphics and add them to your site so that your web site stands out from all the other ordinary sites. Some of the cool graphics include feathering, bevels, collages etc. Also make sure to design attractive and good headers for the web site.

Creative Usage of tables: Using simple designs and using tables creatively will make your website look very smart. Recommendation of tables is done as they are nothing but plain HTML and hence do not take time to load. As we all know that in today’s world time is the only essence that to internet so it absolutely does not make sense in designing an amazing graphic filled web site which takes a long time to load. Interestingly now with high modem and cable speeds we can definitely afford creating website designs in such a manner that is a combination of the above mentioned ideas.

Creatively using the above mentioned ideas will definitely help in designing a wonderful website.