Category Archives: Web Design Tutorial
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Web Designing Tips for All Resolutions
With the time charting further and technology becoming highly advanced, more and more designer and high resolution screens are being used. Most of the web sites are created only for one type of resolution but different people use different resolutions. The need of the hour demands that a website that is under construction should be such that it should work in all resolutions.[...]
Top 15 Usability Factors For Your Website
Usability of the website is the major factor that determines how successful your website is. While designing a website one must keep in mind that the website should be user friendly. If the website is designed keeping in mind the needs of the visitors then it is more likely to fetch more visitors.[...]
Organize Blog Categories: 5 Practical Tips
Organizing blog categories is not at all an uphill task which many people make it out to be. Rather, it is a very simple and a straight forward job but too many people seem to get confused when structuring their categories. Below are 5 practical tips which may come in handy while organizing and making your categories more efficient.[...]
Mobile Website Design Best Practices
Nowadays, every business needs to have a website in order to promote itself. It is not possible for any business’s target audience to go visiting its corporate office every now and then. That is why, utilizing the power of the Internet, websites are created which may enable the target audience to quickly glance at the website created and know all about the company.[...]
Tips on Being a Web Design Graduate
Website designing is such a vast field, requiring continuous studying and honing of knowledge and skills, which is very necessary. Likewise, there are so many excellent web designers in the industry nowadays. When you browse websites, you would be amazed how creative and skilled website designers are.[...]
Useful Productivity Tips for Designers
As web designers and developers, productivity and time management are really important elements of our work. Listed below are some productivity techniques that really work. Hopefully, you will find these tips to be useful and they will help you to save time and get more done.[...]
Top 5 Ecommerce Website Design Tips
Businesses have managed to expand their domains from the conventional physical boundaries to the invisible virtual world of the web. Trade is now carried on through websites and e-commerce has gained a lot of significance. For a successful e-commerce business, a good Web Design is indispensable.[...]
Mobile Web Design Tips for Web Designers
The role of Web Designers has expanded from, just designing websites to designing websites that are compatible with mobile phones and other devices. Mobile Web Design has gained prominence with the increasing popularity of mobile phones that have emerged as convergence devices for all technologies.[...]
Business Website Design: Tips to Design a Business Website
Almost all businesses nowadays prefer to have a website of their own as these provide a lot of visibility and accessibility to the business. However, the design of the website plays a crucial role in determining how effectively it meets the purpose. If you go wrong in choosing a design which is incapable of catching[...]
Web Design Techniques for the Beginner Web Designer
Designing a website requires a unique combination of skills, some of them learnt and some in born. Firstly, the content should be creative, original, innovative and relevant to the industry. These are the most important factors which play a significant role in the success of a website. Firstly, the beginners should try making a ‘Glossary’ of the terms with definitions that are related to your industry. As for the written text, if you are not good at content writing then hire a content writer. With great general knowledge and possessing the power of catching factual errors, a good content writer can help improve your website’s success. Other basic rules that are immensely helpful include the following:
- Start with a simple, basic design
- Avoid blinking and flashing text as it destroys the look of a professional website
- Use titles and headers
- Do not clutter your website with background music. Many people will be looking for important information on the website and are not browsing it for listening to music.
- Your website must contain illustrations, pictures and catchy colors as these things will draw the attention of the viewer.
- You will lose viewers by using popup windows. Never use popup windows.
- Use italicized and bold text in your main content body as it grabs the attention
- Always provide a site map in your website. This will help the visitor to navigate a website easily.
- Include FAQs in your website with answers.
So for a new beginner, all the above mentioned tips will help a lot in designing a successful website that attracts many viewers. Creativity is important but observing such ground rules makes it easier with better results.
Important Tips For A Website Designer While Creating Websites
A website is actually a display window of the company or an organization. Hence, it’s important that it should be designed well as it would be beneficial to not only retain the existing users but attract new ones as well. Enlisted below are certain important factors that every website designer should keep in mind while designing the websites:
Fonts – Make use of some basic fonts such as “Arial: or “Times New Roman”, which are installed on every computer. If you use a font that is not installed on the visitors computer, so the web browser will automatically choose a default font and this will damage the look and design of your website. So, utmost priority has to be given to the font type and size being used on the website.
Use Of Appropriate Colors - Colors can enhance or break the look of your website. Use a balanced color scheme. The colors chosen should be as such that makes the content readable on the webpage. If the content is not readable, then it is bound to leave a bad impression on the visitors.
Distracting Elements Should Be Avoided – Make sure that if you use graphics or any type of flash animations on your website, it should be properly placed. While designing a website it should be given top most importance as it can annoy or distract the users of that website.
Use Of Small Images And Alt Tags – Upload small graphics or images in the webpage as it reduces the loading time of the website. Save the images in the formats like .jpeg, GIF etc. With the images, make use of ‘alt’ tags. It helps the user to understand the website well in case the image or the graphics is not loaded on the visitors system.
Proper Testing Of The Web Pages – After you are through with the designing process, test the web pages you have created on major web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Chrome etc. Sometimes the preview may not be the same in all the web browsers. Therefore, in order to avoid that problem, properly test you all your web pages. It is one of the crucial tasks before you site is uploaded by the web hosts.
Designing a website can be really a herculean task! But, keep the above written points in mind to create powerful and impactful website.
Choosing The Right Web Designing Option
Around a decade back, three alphabets revolutionized the world communication? These were the three ‘www’ or what is referred as the World Wide Web. There is no doubt about that fact that we have come a long way since then, and today Internet has become the virtual market place, which runs the world economy. But even today, the web world poses several challenges that need to be tackled tactfully. One among them is getting started and finding the ideal web solutions that would cater to all your needs, especially your business needs.
If you are also confronted by this challenge of finding best probable for your web presence the following should help you:
Personal v/s Professional Designing
With the ongoing proliferation of web development companies, one can easily get a website for within the proposed budget. But it is not always that you will get what you are promised therefore people are even considering designing their own websites using easy to use web designing software. Either of these options have their own advantages as well as disadvantages.
Personal Designing
Unlike before, when web designing was a myth, today most of people who are looking for a website know how it works. Putting in a little extra effort, one can also easily avail several easy to use Web Designing Software that can make web designing a piece of cake.
Why to go for personal Web Designing?
- Best to meet your all requirements
- Within budget
- Add the features you need and want the most
- Add a personalized touc
- Easy to update regularly
Challenges
- Time investment
- Knowledge and tricks of the trade
- Unlikely to create SMO or SEO friendly website
- Won’t be in-sync with market trends
- Non availability of multiple features like flash or language option
Professional Designing
In comparison to this, the professional designing companies offer you more viable designs that along with meeting your personal requirements also are in-sync with market trends and cover all the challenges that one faces in personally designing a website.
Advantages
- Quality and professional web solutions
- SEO friendly website
- Best promotion on leading search engines
- In-sync with market trends
- Technical features such as flash
- Incorporation of the latest trends of the business
Things to keep in mind while choosing your Web Development Partner
- Check the track record of the company
- Check the compatibility of your designer compared to your requirements
- Check the specialization, i.e. some companies are good at flash based websites where as some in promotional, see what meets your priority
- To check the credibility go through some of their pre designed websites
- Ask for the package and the price for it and check it against the market price
- Look at the overall ranking of the sites designed by them get on leading Search Engines
- Contact some pre-existing clients and check the quality of the after designing services they offer
By following these steps, which ever option you choose, be it personal or professional you are always going to end up on the winning side with a website that cater to your as well as the market requirements.
Get your website designed in 5 easy steps
Wish to have a successful business and do not have an online presence…..then this wish tends to remain more or less unfulfilled. In the current scenario, business having its online facet has become a mandatory deal. Having a website online is a key to success but usually people think that getting a website will ask for a lot of money and efforts. However, it is not as people think, contacting a web design company will make the website development process simple and easy for you. Web designing companies have web experts who assist you until your website goes online.
Here in this write up you will see how you can have your own website designed in 5 very simple steps.
Step 1. Discussion about your requirements and estimated budget
- Your business details
- Objective behind having a website
That web expert will provide you the quote along with the deliverables based on the requirements and business objectives you have provided.
Step 2. Booking of domain and space
Domain name, the address to your website and the server space are the two important things that need to be booked prior to the designing of the website. The web expert will suggest you the domain name example www.yourcompany-name.com. This domain name will be suggested in accordance with your business objectives and the SEO perspective. You have the complete liberty to choose the domain name and only after your approval, domain will be booked along with the web space for the hosting of your website.
Step 3. Collection of Basic Data
For designing an effective website, company’s details are required like :
- Establishment year
- Details about infrastructure
- Details about the company’s offerings
- Images of the products and the company premises
- Contact details
The web expert will help you to gather the details required on (hyperlinks) different pages of your website. Any assistance needed in this regard is readily offered by the web expert. Ensure that you provide only authentic data that is supported with proofs.
Step 4. Promotional Measures
After the collection of data, the information is handed over to the SEO Experts who analyse and reframe the data as per the web promotional norms. This is an integral step as it helps a website achieve higher rankings on various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc.
Step 5. Designing and development phase
The final and the most crucial step is the designing phase. All the reframed and edited data is handed over to Web Designers and Developers who prepare the website for hosting. Before the actual hosting, the site will be shown to you on hidden URL. Any changes for the improvement of the website can be suggested by you at this very stage.
Once you are satisfied with all the aspects of your website i.e. its appearance, content, loading time, etc. the site would then be launched on the domain booked for you i.e. yourcompany-name.com.
Following these 5 simple steps, you get your well-designed website that is ready to earn you more and more web traffic and thus business. ALWAYS remember to choose a renowned and trusted web development company in order to have a well-promoted website.
