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| Good navigation and usability is the basis for a good design. It should always be obvious to your visitors how to get where they want to go on your web site, and it should be impossible to get "lost". | ||
| What makes the Web such a powerful medium is that it is interactive, and it provides instant access to an incredible depth of information. Good web site design should take full advantage of these capabilities, providing your visitors with easy access to the information, products or service you provide, while making their whole experience stimulating and satisfying. |
Good Concept [Web Design]
Good content is the most important aspect of successful web site design. To support your content, you need the right combination of technology and graphics. In that sense web site design is both an art and a science. It has to be functional and work correctly, but should also be appealing to the eye.
Isn’t it time that you learned the latest web design techniques? Over the last year or so I’ve been busy writing about just that – the new methods of web design that YOU SHOULD KNOW!
If you’re tired of searching through the piles of out-of-date information that is all too common on the web, you’ve come to the right page. My job has been to filter out all the crap and teach you the latest web design techniques that work in the real world.
Besides teaching the latest and greatest, I also inject my more than 10 years experience in web design to help you avoid all my mistakes!
HTML ??? What Is The Use?
HTML stands for "HyperText Markup Language". It's the simple code that's used to create the structure of web pages and to describe the structure of content on pages.
HTML is very easy to learn. However, it's important to learn and follow best practice. Badly written HTML can exclude users with disabilities, make web sites less accessible to search engines, and mean your site doesn't work on some browsers.
The aim of this section is to teach you simple, basic, good HTML.
USEHow-to-build-websites.com is designed for total beginners and people who use programs like Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or other wysiwyg programs (wysiwyg stands for: "What You See Is What You Get") and now want to learn what's going on 'behind the scenes'.
To really understand web design, you need to learn HTML hand-coding; it's easier than you think!
Design tossers
There's still a strong belief among a significant minority of web designers that you need exciting, original graphic design to have a great web page design. This is not true. Actually, anyone with the willingness and capacity to learn a few basic formulas and disciplines can make a highly successful web page.
Design “aficionados” who promote the elitist theory are just trying to keep a moat of exclusivity around what they do, and projecting their own subjective reality onto everyone else.
When you live with a particular medium every day, the ordinary can fail to inspire, and you start to crave the edgy and the different. You only get excited about seeing new angles on design that you haven't seen before, which make you stop and go “Wow, that's interesting”.
To this breed of designer, novelty, originality and heart-stopping, thought-provoking visuals are the signs of great design because that's what they love. Design done for its own sake is called “art”, and there's a place for it. But when someone tells you that the only good design is shiny, sexy, powerful, and difficult graphic art, they're wrong. That view of things is nothing more that masturbation. In professional terms, it's “design toss”.
And let's not forget that making snazzy graphic design is really hard. And it's human instinct that, if you've invested lots of effort in gaining a skill – often with little outside help or resources - as most web designers have had to do, you don't want every man and his dog turning up and setting up shop next door. You don't want it to be easy, so there's a natural tendency to attack the thing that threatens your hard-earned skillset, creating a defensive moat that only the most determined young turk can breach.
Design tossers often congregate together, praising each other's work and ripping apart the efforts of people that don't have their level of graphic skill. They tend to judge based on style and emotional content alone, rather than how well a design meets its goals.
Note: If you find yourself in a place where you only care about the opinions of other designers, there is help available. The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. The path to recovery involves a daily commitment to designing only what's necessary to achieve a web site's goals by letting its visitors get what they want.
What good design is
Design is the process of creating something that facilitates a communication experience.
Good design is doing this successfully.
Great design is where you solve the communication problem with such elegance that the interaction becomes easy, or even enjoyable. Entertaining TV ads that we stop to watch are great design, and so is the iPhone because it lets us achieve what we want in the nicest possible way.
(Much of the time, good design is good enough.)
The great news is that the art of simple web design is accessible to everyone. You don't have to be a gifted graphic artist to design a really good web site. There are formulas you can learn to know where to put stuff on a page, what nav to use, how to write accessible copy, and how to space everything out. The skills are available to everyone who wants to learn them.
There is no shame in reusing a formula that works. If I follow a Gary Rhodes recipe and produce a delicious meal, haven't I delivered a great experience? Would it be better for me to make up my own recipe? (The only benefit is likely to be for my own ego.)
Web design versus “Design toss”
Ben Hunt is the author of “Save the Pixel – the Art of Simple Web Design”, available as a PDF e-book (£15)
It turned out that having a reflecting logo, lots of clever functionality, or a catchy message didn't matter a jot. The only things that made a positive difference were clarity and ease of use.
This experience helped crystallize something in my mind.
The vast majority of design isn't about making stuff look good. It's about making something that does a job well. When it comes to the top line, sex really doesn't sell. Shiny Web2.0-effect graphics, professional-looking logos and trendy fonts really don't factor compared to the really important steps of:
- Working out what a web site needs to do, and then
- Making it achieve that as simply and as transparently as possible.
Following good basic graphic design principles will produce something that has a kind of natural beauty to it. Having a clear focal point, a well-spaced “getable” layout, readable text, obvious and transparent navigation, well-written copy and appropriate imagery will produce a web page that feels natural and right, whether or not it gets your heart going.
Jazzy visuals are secondary. They can't help make a page feel simple, clean, and easy, so whatever benefits they deliver are minor.
What is the web?
n a nutshell, the web is a whole bunch on interconnected computers talking to one another. The computers (on the web) are typically connected by phone lines, digital satellite signals, cables, and other types of data-transfer mechanisms. A 'data-transfer mechanism' is a nerd's way of saying: a way to move information from point A to point B to point C and so on.
The computers that make up the web can be connected all the time (24/7), or they can be connected only periodically. The computers that are connected all the time are typically called a 'server'. Servers are computers just like the one you're using now to read this article, with one major difference, they have a special software installed called 'server' software.
Web Design
Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).
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