The first lesson in design is that simplicity is the best design rule. But sadly the first lesson is often ignored by web designers just because their clients want them to add a little something extra to their web design. Small businesses in particular who hire web design firms to create their business websites want to get a web design that is worth their money. They think that adding more and more elements, widgets and things into their web design is the only way to get the service worth their money and time.
The main goal of a web design, specially for a web design of a small business website is to make information available on the web. Additional goals that make a web design truly great are to make the access to this information easier and useful for the website visitors.
Achieving these goals by a web design is not as simple as it might look. On the tech front where the information flow, social connectivity and different mediums to access this information are increasing on a daily basis, it is hard to decide how to keep things simple. From a world clock to a java chat applet, there is nothing you can