Whenever we plan for a website, we should never forget that,“SIMPLICITY IS THE BEST CITY“, e.g., Google! Homepage, it is very simple in its looks but gets millions of user. So the main thing we should keep in our mind is that our user varies from professionals(who know how the page is coded and more than that) to newbies(who don’t know the ‘I’ of Internet).

Here goes some tips which may help you.

Tips for a good website

• The main page of the site should be very lightweight. So that it loads very fast. We should restrict from using huge scripts on our main page.
• Images should be compressed & resized to meet our needs. Its better to create a big image using the small ones & use the required part using CSS rather than loading each and every image. See this.
• The heading tags should be in a sequence and we should try to express our big views in less words.
• All the links on a page should inform our user, its purpose. Every time add a title to the <a> tag.
• Our content should be validated(W3C Validation). Since it becomes easier for search engines to crawl the page.
• Most important, it should run exactly same on any browser(Cross Browser). Read this.

Most of the tips were given by SachinKRaj and rest are the result of my knowledge. Hats off to Sach

Further Reading :

• A PDF from Global Knowledge, here is the link
• Another tutorial from, DevLib
• A beginner’s guide from, Mardiros
• Last guide from, Forty Seven Media