Friday, October 31, 2008

Don't Forget to Architect the Home Page

One of the hardest things to do during Web site creation is to finalize a vision for the home page. So much to do, and so little real estate! How will users find anything? Where will it all fit?

Yet the same questions that stymie home page development often magically disappear inside the site, where suddenly, logic and order rule. Major items go in top- or left-hand navigation schemes. Subcategory navigation squeezes under the main lists, either through clever spatial allotments or more-clever DHTML and Javascript tricks. Promotional items cascade down the right-hand side or across the page above and below major content.

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The 8 Most Important Website Design Principles


Building an Innovative and Effective Website, by making full use of available technologies, is crucial for the future success of your current or future online business. There are literally 1000's of great ideas out there, but finding the right ones and applying them to your website, is where the real trick lies.

Applying the best tips, tools and other design principles to your website, can bring you untold success on the internet. At the same time, using powerful and innovative ideas in the design and development stages of your website, will level the playing field for your business, and raise it's competitive edge on the internet.


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Website Design and Its Importance to Business

Today's competitive business market and ever increasing constraints on spending budgets have made it necessary for businesses to establish a successful presence on the web. Without a presence on the web, a business would miss considerably in terms of exposing its services and products to an increased number of potential customers. A successful presence in web entails professional website development, outstanding graphic design, and persuasive text. Website design is an essential aspect of an advertising campaign because most people now turn first to the web for information on businesses rather than going into the shop. The web in a sense has taken the place of salespeople. Thus web design is the clothes of your company whereas the text of your web pages is the language the website speaks to viewers.


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Why You Need to Redesign Your Website Right Now

It is recession time. You might feel more conservative than ever. Redesigning that old, ugly website of yours might not be one of your top priorities at this time. I don't blame you. In fact, your competitors are doing the same thing.

But what if instead of sitting back and waiting for the bad times to go away you decided to be proactive? What if instead of complaining about the economy you took advantage of this great opportunity where your competitors are doing nothing but waiting for a better moment to grow their businesses?


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Saturday, October 25, 2008

The 8 Most Important Website Design Principles

Building an Innovative and Effective Website, by making full use of available technologies, is crucial for the future success of your current or future online business. There are literally 1000's of great ideas out there, but finding the right ones and applying them to your website, is where the real trick lies.

Applying the best tips, tools and other design principles to your website, can bring you untold success on the internet. At the same time, using powerful and innovative ideas in the design and development stages of your website, will level the playing field for your business, and raise it's competitive edge on the internet.


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Effective Web Design

The Basics

Before starting on how to design a website effectively, how about clearing some basic web design concepts?


Designing Effectively


Now that you know what web design and related terms mean, lets get down to the real thing: Designing Effectively How to balance artistic design with practicality and functionality.


Use of graphics and content


Unless your website is all about graphics, how to make them, edit them or just a bunch of links to graphics websites, I suggest you use graphics sparingly, especially the flashing, twirling kind. They not only detract readers from the content, but they also take ages to load. You do not want your readers to leave your website because your graphically attractive page does not seem to load fast enough. Then again, too much text is boring. So mix and match the graphics and text on your page, having enough white space so that the page is not plain annoying.


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Web Design Basics

Web design uses all the same elements as print design. You need to explore the space and layout, handle fonts and colors, and put it all together in a format that puts your message across. These resources will help you learn Web design whether you are already a professional Web developer or just getting started in the Web arena.


1. Elements of Good Design

2. Fonts and Typography

3. How to Use Color

4. Graphics and Images

5. Web Layout Basics

6. Tackling Web Navigation

7. Accessibility and Usability

8. Web Design Software


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