We kicking this series off with an introduction to Web design. How do you design an effective website?
Websites that appear shabby and cramped with a lot of information don’t appeal to a large population of web surfers. These are the little things that count. Below I’ll list guidelines web designers should adhere to and step up your game.
1. Don’t cram too many things on one page. If you think you have to put too many things on your webpages, arrange them neatly and use browser scripting language such as jQuery to add effects to your webpage. Be creative with jQuery. An example is Facebook, on the homepage there are too many stuffs there, due brilliant design and programming whenever we open Facebook it just seems cool and not cramped.
2. Don’t use gimmicks such as animations and music to try to grab people attention. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you should not create a website with animations, music or videos. You can do all those things but when you add those things to your website make sure they don’t slow the speed with which your webpages load and place media in creative positions.
3. Use colors wisely. Don’t place red text on a black background or yellow text on a blue background. Before you launch your website, go through all the pages and make sure they look good, not only in your eyes, but also ask your friends how it looks, if the majority don’t like it then you might want to consider going back to the drawing board and sketching your designs again. If you cannot think of a good background to use on your webpage then just leave it as white because that’s better than using an odd background that doesn’t even match anything relating to your website.
4. Picture. Be careful with the way you use pictures. Too many pictures with large sizes make it difficult to open on low bandwidth devices like your mobile phone. Most people are in a hurry and they won’t hesitate to close your website if takes them more than 15 seconds to open, so you should try to cut down on the amount of picture or the picture sizes you place on your website. Especially if your websites allows people to upload their own picture, then make sure you have a good program that cuts down the sizes of the pictures and it should also save the original picture so that you can show little thumbnails in the gallery and the single full sixed picture if people need to see the full picture.
5. Lastly it comes down to this; Money/Price. In cases where money’s involved don’t get cute and try to use design to hide the price from people. You might think you are wise but others would see it as mischief. Don’t do it.
There you have it, five guidelines you should adhere to while designing your website. Design is about rendering vital information through an effective and friendly user interface.
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