High tech design/ layout rules

Each time when I try to create a web template, it takes very long time but at the end I have nothing; because I can not decide which background/color should I use. Or height and width of blocks/boxes... I have same problem for font-size, family and color. Another issue is right software. I can use Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop, Gimp etc, but I dont know what to use for good quality themes. Can anyone recommend an article or website about this subject?

  • Easy to Read
    Eye-friendly nice to read, big-enaugh fonts and background combination
  • Easy to Navigate
    Nobody will search half hour click 100 times for a page, make all findable!
  • Easy to Crawl
    Robots/Crawler will never crawl texts over images/flash-animations/java-applets or embed in javascripts.
  • Easy to Print
    Nobody wants to print your full background or advertisement areas. Too small or light font colour annoy!
  • Easy to Find
    Make site-search avaliable for your visitors. At least use Google site search.
  • Easy to Download
    Not everybody using high-speed adsl/dsl internet. Think that some visitors coming over 56k modems or wap like slow connections. Noone will wait 10 minutes for a page to load.
  • Unique Color Combination
    Let users remember your site easily(Use a unique design for logo+header area of your site)

Never use ajax!

clients without javascript and search-engine-bots cannot pull content from ajax

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