Web page layout design is one of the most important issues in website usability and user friendly website design. Web page layout design should be consistent enough to adequately convey the information and makes users process comfortable to find & read content easily. Below are important facts that you should need to address while designing user-friendly web page layout for making website ease of ease.
- Web pages should be structured for ease of use. Designers should place the significant web page elements consistently.
- Avoid designing cluttered display for your web page. Excessive use of items makes the page difficult to scan for users for finding important information.
- Place most important page elements at the top center of the web page for making user scan process quicker and easier. At first sight, users look at the top center of any web page, then look left, then right and finally systematically scroll down the total web page.
- If you should need to use any comparison table for discern trends, similarities, relationships etc. in your web page, make sure users will able to compare items without having to remember one while going to another page or another place in the same web page.
- Employ priority level for placing important information and apply the approach to each page of entire website. Important information should be placed at higher position so users can find those easily. For this the most important web page elements should place above the fold for increasing website usability performance.
- To make the scanning process of finding information easier don’t design web page too crowded with items of information. Study found that finding information from crowded area takes more time than sparse area.
- Users prefer consistent alignments for web page elements such as rows, columns, text blocks, data entry fields etc.
- Try to design and develop web page using fluid layout that will automatically adjust the page size to monitor resolution settings. Now 1024×768 pixels or higher resolution is optimal for web page layout.
- Use appropriate page length based on the theme of the web page. In general, it is better to use shorter page length for home page and navigational pages. Use can read the shorter pages quickly.
