Graphic intensive layout:
A layout as outlined below is highly graphic intensive and provides some very interesting imagery for the viewers. Advantages of such a web site design are:
1. There is a story around the product
2. Has a greater appeal to viewers and thus can hold their interest
3. Manages to stand out amongst a host of other web sites
Disadvantages:
1. The web site may not display accurately on all web browsers
2. The pages are graphic intensive and thus have slower download speed.
3. Such a web site is difficult to update on a regular basis
4. Designers have to be careful while designing such as web site since there might be a chance of getting it wrong as well.
However, it goes without saying that product web sites are best made in this fashion since it allows the web site to add an a very effective online sales and marketing tool.
The NO-IMAGES web site
It is possible to create a web site design without the help of images. In fact, some of the best web sites are a medley of color and font. The samples provided below, focuses on making the web site simple yet effective. Some of the advantages of such as web site are:
1. Very quick to download and thus ends up creating a good impression on the customer.
2. Such as web site allows you to focus on the message you want to deliver to your customers.
3. The web site looks different from the rest and does not have any fluff.
4. The web site can easily be search engine optimized.
Disadvantages:
1. Some users might like to see graphically intensive web sites
2. You might end up putting too much content which might confuse the person viewing the web site.
3. The web site may start to look a bit stage after some time.
Such web site layouts are suitable for design companies where they can display a graphically intensive portfolio or companies which have a lot of content to mention on their web site.
The Simple Header-footer website:
This is probably one of the most common styles of design for web sites. The header of the site carries the relevant design and the rest of the site carries the content. Its popularity is proof about the fact that this layout works well for most people:
Advantages:
1. Such a web site is simple to design and implement
2. The layout helps in delivering the message effectively to the viewer.
3. Helps in search engine optimization of the web site.
4. Navigation and web page size can be easily expanded.
Disadvantages:
1. It is easy to get lost in the crowd with such a layout.
2. Very little room for creativity and the web site tends to look like a template.
The complete flash interface web site:
Using flash for web site design is quite common and a complete flash layout can also be used with ease. Some of the advantages of using a full flash interface as a web site are:
1. A full flash web site has the ability to hold the interest of the user for a longer duration of time.
2. There is a lot of opportunity to showcase creativity in a full flash web site
3. You can utilize the power of audio and video on the flash web site.
Disadvantages:
* It is difficult to do regular updates on a flash web site. In most of the cases it has to be done manually.
* Since a flash web site takes time to download, users may loose interest and wander off
* Sometimes, the graphics may overpower the content and the message of the web site gets lost.
