So you decided to make a website huh? good, because your in the right place. I'm going to explain the different steps in the website design and development process. What is a development process? Luke Reimer from Smashing magazine answers “A Web development process is a documented outline of the steps needed to be taken from start to finish in order to complete a typical Web design project”. There are numerous steps in the web site design process. From gathering information, to the design of your web site, and finally to create your web site and publish it. So you may be thinking about designing a website, then when you think about how your going to accomplish that, it may seem like a daunting challenge to you. Nothing to worry about, If you follow the few basic steps explained, your web design process will run smoothly.
First step to start designing a successful website is to take some time to do some brainstorming and research. In my opinion this is the most important step in the process because the questions you answer will help you understand your business and your needs for the web site. There are many things you should take consideration of to design the look and feel of your website. Certain question your should answer are, what is the purpose of the site? Is it to promote service, provide info, or sell products? Also what are my goals for the site? What am i aiming to accomplish? I find that the most common goals are either to make money or provide information. One of the important answer you must answer is, Who is my target audience? Your target audience Is a certain group of people that will help you reach your goals. It`s helpful to picture the “ideal” person you want to visit your web site. Consider their age, ...
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...web design besides drawing it. Regardless of your content, these few steps should help you design a decent professional looking website. If you’re not sure how your design looks, Ask a non-technical friend to review your design. If it makes sense to them, it will make sense to most other people. Since everyone has a different workflow the exact process will differ slightly from designer to designer. However, the basics will still remain the same.
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Web sites are just like magazines, newspapers, brochures, menus, or even directions on how to make nitroglycerin from house-hold goods, in that they all have to be put together in such a manner that whoever is reading or browsing over it will be able to clearly distinguish this from that. In this sense, a critique of any particular web site will have justification, while carefully considering also that this is an altogether new medium of information exchange. Now, all of this talk of togetherness is actually a general reference to basic design principles, such as color coordination, if color is used, text size, font choice/ style, art integration, accessibility, and just plain and simple design of the page. For example, it wouldn't be all that appealing to the eyeball if a page being viewed had all the text jumbled up in a corner, so small your eyes were bleeding by the time you figured out that it wasn't even worth the trouble. Darn. It's important to rememeber, especially these days, that what you read is as important as how it looks. Have you ever tried reading an interview in a Raygun magazine? Kinda hard, right? Design totally for its own sake is nice, as art that is, and admittedly it looks cool. However, it's two in the morning and you're standing in line at the corner 7-11 trying to pay for your 40 ounce bottle of Kool-Aid, and you happen to see that your favorite MTV Pearl Crap-clone band is on the cover of this hip magazine and you go to read it, but you can't. It's not because to you failed elementary school three times in two years, but because the maestro in charge decided to get fancy with it and thought it'd be cool if he hid the text under a black box or likewise photograph. I like to loo...
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The design of the Web site is very bright and appealing to the eye. Its layout is inviting and easy to navigate. Its design is consistent through all pages. There are many graphics including, photographs, illustrations, and animated buttons and GIFs. These graphics are placed in an orderly fashion and do not create a cluttered appearance. The site has its own search engine which assists in navigating throughout the site.
In my opinion what makes a good web page? I have been on the net for the last, can’t really believe it, coming to ten years now. From the conception to now, I have been a regular surfer on the web, visiting thousands of pages a month, mostly in search of some thing or another. Most searches have lead to even more searches but some times I come up tops. Having been used to the all text sites of the beginning, and seeing the first implementations of more graphic based sites, there was a three-year lapse where I rarely got to surfing and missed a whole evolution in web page. When I returned in full to surfing, I discovered the face of the internet have started to change. Buttons with pictures, navigation systems, some that even worked, all and all better thought out sites that where pleasing to look at and better to work with. This was probably due to the introduction of java script and more complex versions of html. Before then what made a sight good or bad, for me, was more based on contents. As this change came to be my expectations of sites changed as well. When, at first, we where happy to have hyperlinked, underlined blue text, now we expect to have a good, easy to use, constant navigation system. Where bad resolution bitmaps where the norm, now we want smooth animated graphics. The way we use the internet have changed with the advances in technology, so changing our expectations and creating a whole new set of problems for anyone, from the big spenders to backroom designers, how to get our attention and how to keep us coming back.