The aim of a good web designer is to create a website that is attractive, easily accessible and functional. A good web design on the whole requires creating a good graphic design, easy website navigation and layout and lastly a good web copy.  

The web designer is needed to keep the following guidelines in mind when developing a website. The first and the foremost thing is the web content. The information on the website should be knowledgeable; most of the visitor wants quality information otherwise they will click away and find some other website.

Another point to be kept in mind is the cross browser compatibility. One should design their websites to work properly in the most widely used browsers. A good web design is one where in the web pages work in all Netscape, opera, google chrome, fire fox and so on. For this it is necessary to not only validate your HTML code but the final test to view your websites in different platform is also very important.

The website should have graphic files with as small size as possible without giving up the picture quality. Many studies have shown that the majority people today will click away if any webpage takes longer than ten seconds to load. It is advisable to use the height and width attribute on the picture so that the remaining page can loads when the graphic is downloading.

For multimedia one should use streaming media so as to reduce the downloading time. The video should be easy to start, pause, skip or stop if needed. One should put any important information in multimedia in text also so that if the visitor does not see multimedia feature, he is aware of the information.                                                                                  

One should keep the three click rule in mind, so it is important that the navigation of the website is simple. Each area of the website should be accessible within three clicks. If there is anything other than simple text links, it is important to test the navigation of the site from all major browsers. the website should be free from broker links, regular tests of the links ensures that the links are valid, there are many free online services available to check this. Avoid using frames, as it makes book marking individual pages on the web site tricky.

Thus it can be said that a high-quality Web design is a combination of both common sense and good planning. The website should be an attractive, easy to use and should provide information, service any visitor is looking for. There are many high quality Web Designers in Vancouver that can easily searched on the internet.