Website designing is tricky business. Often small things that go unnoticed turn out to be significant in impacting the overall performance of the website and further influencing crucial factors like website traffic, revenue generation and conversion figures.

Modern websites are a far cry from the static text and graphics showcases of a decade ago, Today almost all popular and successful websites, be it online shopping portals, social networks, eCommerce websites implement web based applications.

To start the design for the websites you must keep some important things.

HTML forms are one way a user can send data to Web sites. They are essential in almost every interaction one can have with a site, such as:

Ever visited a site and wondered "what am I supposed to do?" Ever got lost in someone else's tangled web?

Editor's Pick in Website Usability, October 2005
Let web design expert Jennifer Kyrnin show you how to use JavaScript and meta tags to make browser specific effects available to everyone.

The first thing that we should know about the two most popular Internet Browsers, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, is that they don't display web pages in the same way...

Editor's Pick in Website Usability, July 2005
Is your web page viewable in both Internet Explorer and Firefox? If not, you should consider making your web page XHTML transitional. Here's how.

Usability is the measure of the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system - whether a web site, software application, mobile technology, or any user-operated device...

In this article we'll cover some basics of website usability, in other words, making your website user-friendly. This article in no way covers everything you should keep in mind prior to designing your website - there is much more. I have listed five questions you should initially consider...