What are your tips on creating a website?

Make it simple & clean

Good content makes a good website. Simple design can work but simple content won't. Need to have some unique stuff.

Make the graphics clean and NOT dark.

Watch others how they make them. Placehold is a good example and so is Jalokim.

Just have a good content and great designs to your website and more will be attracted to it.

start with the a small genre/category and expand slowly.

If you are planning a website you should keep some important tips in your mind. Make simple and attractive website design. Make user friendly and SEO friendly website which help you to get more and more traffic to your website. Use unique and relevant content on website. Choose the proper color combination on the website, use easy navigation to navigate users easily in web site anywhere.

Clean design (doesent need to be mega good) and really good content.

Tips for quality Web Design:
1.Make a good plan before web designing: Always develop a site map before designing the web site. Know about your services and product, what pages you want. Decide the right Web Designing Software, CSS Editor, HTML Editor Resource, etc. Make a blueprint of the design copy.

2.Good quality content: Make sure your language is clear, concise and is benefit oriented. No matter how great your graphics are, or how slick the animation, the bottom line is, people use the internet to find information. If your content is useless, or outdated, people will stop visiting your site.

3. Keep the website navigation simple: A best way to keep audience on your page is to make sure that navigation should be simple and easy. Provide suitable internal links and sub links so that user can easily navigate from one page to another.

4.Color scheme and graphics: color scheme should be simple and pleasing to the eyes. It should complement the theme of the website. The colors of the fonts and background should make for a trouble-free reading. And try to use simple yet elegant graphics.

5.Simple layout: A simple and easy layout is a key to good website. Avoid using lot of images, graphics and animations that takes extra time to load the website. Many a times it may hang the user’s computer if website is heavy. Also make sure that the information provided on your website can easily be found.

6.Test your site before you upload: Before you upload your site check each and every link, to make sure it points to the right place and it properly works.

The very important thing is the content. It has to be quite original and not a lot of ads poping up in your face
Some graphics would be nice 2.