Consistency in your web site design keeps the visitor from being confused and puzzled. There should not be many different types of pages on your web site, and your menu options / navigation options should always be consistent across the whole web site.

Imagine going to a web site where the look differs dramatically from page to page. You would be confused very quickly! Even as an intelligent web user, you would not continue to use the web site for very long, because you would automatically flow to a better web site.

That is how the internet works. Consistency in your web site design is key. Keeping your web site design background simple will help give you a professional image. Keep high contrast text colors as well.

One of the most eye paining offenders on the internet is a blue background with red text. Have you ever seen it? Reading more than a few sentences will give you a headache almost immediately. Another option you may be tempted to do is to make text colors slightly lighter than your background colors.

While, yes, this is readable, it is not very kind to the eyes! This is why most websites stick with white text backgrounds and black text.

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