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If you want to impress your visitors on first look at your site and make them sticky, you need to organize your site in proper manner. These are few tips  that can help you to create an organize site;

* Your homepage should have optimal purpose of your site so state the purpose of your website at the very beginning.

* Add short description, and give good presentation of your site on your homepage.

* If you have a banner/graphic or logo place it on the very top of your page, add your entire presentation thereafter.

* The navigation links should be placed on the left or right side of your web page as per your purpose. You may also add links at the top or bottom of your page.

* Limit your website to only a few products or important service that you think best to present initially, later you can add more products once you have solid number of visitors

* Motivate your visitors for repeat visit providing them very useful content.

I hope this point would be helpful you to create good impression of your site and bring good prospects.

A growing trend of endorsement with a set of standardization & best practices for building web sites including broader philosophy of web design and development, web standards seems to be mission possible for the designers for addressing larger audience. It brings more diversity in terms of browsers, more accessibility and the following fringe benefit adopting the web standards;

* One of the distinct benefits of web standards is that your site would work with all major browsers and it requires lower development costs due to its simpler development and low maintenance.

* It increase usability and accessibility, hence the pages download faster and make easier to decipher the content for screen readers.

* Better search engine ranking; by separating presentation from content increases the information & markup ratio, making CSS-based documents more pertinent with regard to the search terms

* Reduce dependency in one developer; The site designed with standards are very well documented, any other developer taking over some standard-compliant code can hit the ground running.
* Reduces bandwidth consumption.

* Provide Print version for all pages & users can customize site appearance.

* Allow your site to be accessible to a larger audience – including the vision impaired, cognitive impaired.

* Increase Clarity and conciseness

* Cheap hosting cost & site maintenance

Conclusion;

Using web standards and separating structure from presentation is going to benefit today & tomorrow, all these factors contribute to easier site management, a larger audience and a better return on investment.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has completed 10 years this month, ten years ago, on 17 December 1996, W3C published the first standard for style on the Web: level 1. CSS Web designers have enjoyed control of page appearance, easier page design and maintenance. CSS helped many users to make pages more adaptable including users with mobile devices and some users with disabilities.

You can be the part of their celebration of this tenth anniversary by proposing your favorite CSS designs for the CSS10 Gallery. Learn more about CSS from the CSS10 pages; http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/