Below are 10 things to keep in mind when building your website.

1. Function before Form: Ask yourself: What is the purpose of the site? Is it a starting point to be used to direct people to other sites or information? A showcase or platform to exhibit work? A community or political forum? An advertising site? An information site? After giving your site a focus, write in a style that fits your audience.
   
   
2. Attend to the Reader-User Interface: Assume that you can say the same way but with 30 percent fewer words. Do so. Your web page will be all the more inviting because of it.
   
   
3. Simplicity over sizzle: consider whether having things moving on your web page is any less distracting than having them move in your salad. We're talking spinning logos, here not streaming video or animation in the service of information or instruction. Sizzle may catch someone's eye, but if it doesn't really contribute to the utility of the user, the costs may outweigh the benefits. Be careful.
   
   
4. Check your images: Use images to enhance your text but keep them small so that they load faster. Reduce download time by using smaller thumbnail images linked to full-sized graphics. Be careful to get permission (from them and the teacher) to use images of people and not to use the full names.
   
   
5. Provide good navigation: Make it easy for surfers to find the way back to the home page or major sections of the site by using a consistent navigational interface on every page of your site.
6. Grow the site by seeking content from others: Pull resources from other people, get input, collaborate.
   
   
7. Make connections to other sites: Link to other web sites and inform them that you have created a link. They may add a link from their site to yours, increasing you web traffic.
   
   
8. Involve your visitors: The simplest way to do this is to provide an e-mail address link that will allow visitors to communicate with you or the webmaster. Visitors will often e-mail requests for additional information that does not appear on the site; use this as feedback as you add to the site. Visitors may also point out errors. Fix the typos, broken links and design flaw that they discover as soon as possible.
   
   
9. Make it easy for people to find you: Take the time to make sure that site is listed on major search engines. Consider buying your own domain name and give your site a simple Internet address that's easy to remember and associated with you. Spread the word. Advertise your page. People can't benefit from your page if they don't visit it.
   
   
10. Keep it simple, silly: The KISS principle works here as everywhere else. Don't over do with graphics, animation, color, etc.