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A good web design job is easy to find these days on the internet. To start off on web design jobs, you'll need some sort of skill. You need the internet for an online web design job, and mainly for testing purposes.

Starting out in freelance web design is an arduous task. You need to have the design skills and knowledge to be able to design a quality web page.

Follow our guide to working at home in web design, it will definitely get you on the right foot and have your work at home web design job started.

There are a lot of things to take into consideration when putting together a good website. Not only do you want to attract visitors, but you want to keep them coming back to your site after their initial visit. Don't discriminate against your visitors. Each and every visitor, no matter where they are from, are equally important. Below are some general pointers and tips to help you on your way.

Web Design Basics

This includes knowing how and when to use tables, frames, and graphics...as well as what colors to use and not to use. "Should I put a graphic on this page?" "Should I include a footer on my pages?" These are some of the questions you should answer before hand, prior to actually building your pages. Also it is a good idea to keep links to other external pages minimal, but if you provide links, it is a good idea to make it so the link pops up in a new window, so your site is always there for them to return to. However, in the age of search engine competition, it is good to exchange links with web sites. It helps your ranking and may just get you that client over another developer.

Not only do you have to worry if your tables look good at different resolutions, but also if the different technologies your using on your site work well with other browsers and other operating systems. For example, if you design your site with some Macromedia Flash 5 animations, and people are coming to your site with either no Flash plugin or a version less then 5, you should be aware that they will have to download and install the latest to view your animation's. Try to shy away when new design technologies come out and just throwing them into your site. Be sure you read about them, and fully understand any compatibility issues you may get into. Also make sure all of your links work, that last thing a user wants to see is a 404 page not found error.

Sure flashy graphics will wow those that visit your site, and may even get some word of mouth advertising around for you, but what keeps them coming back for more time and time again is content. Whether you site is about fishing, world news, the hottest trend in computer technologies, you always want to keep your site as updated and complete as possible. Try to speak in 'laymen's' terms as much as possible for those that may not be as savvy as you are in the subject matter. You should have a search feature built into your site that will allow visitors to search your site for what they are looking for, and also always give them a means to return to the 'main' page, so if they get lost, they always know how to get home.