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Website Design Summary

Stick to basic design principles

• Use 'easy on the eye' colour schemes
• Use easy to read fonts
• Design for a minimum 800 x 600 screen size
• Keep it simple
• Design for speed

Create a mock-up of the design

• Keep in mind the need for consistency (particularly with regards to navigation)
• Design for your users
• Don't be over ambitious

Design for the web

• Use the correct image type
• Keep file sizes small
• Use animation sparingly

Consider site security and dynamic data

• Ensure the security of users personal information
• Consider the advantages of a database driven solution

Design for search engines

• Research your keywords
• Use your keywords

Make your site accessible

• Make sure your website works in all browsers
• Make sure your website works on all platforms
• Avoid over use of Javascript
• Don't change the browser size
• Don't use pop-ups

Check your website for errors

• Check your site for errors!
• Check your site for errors!!
• Check your site for errors!!!

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Mighty Media are a full service multimedia company and have employed an in-house team of website designers since 1997. Our practical, marketing oriented approach to website design has resulted in numerous site launches that succeed in driving qualified, targetted leads to our client's businesses.

Mighty Media is regarded as one of the premier Buckinghamshire website design agencies with a track record in corporate communications that forms the underlying foundation of their work.

Established for over 25 years, Mighty Media began making TV commercials and later diversified into the corporate video production sector working with household names such as Procter & Gamble, Mars, Nationwide Building Society and other familiar names. With a strong background in internal and external communications Mighty Media progressed into new media production. Mighty Media now specialise in CD-Rom design and production, e-learning solutions, intranet design, extranet design, video production and website design.

Based in Bourne End on the border of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Mighty Media now provide website design and online marketing services to businesses from all over the UK.

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