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The Key to Better Websites [ Part B ] Design

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Introduction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Importance of the latter :</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Design, design, design. To put the wonders of a good design into perspective, imagine a when we are purchasing a T-Shirt. First of all, what do we look at? The design of the T-Shirt, of course. Well most people do, other than the material factor. But let’s assume the all other factors are constant, wouldn’t the design or looks, become the key aspect then?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">2 )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Design</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Putting oneself in another individual’s shoes, as usual. Here are another two situations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 1.25in; tab-stops: .75in; text-indent: -1.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Situation A : A website with good design and breathtaking graphics. (Good color schemes with matching theme), pictures. (Optimum resolutions and relevant) and proper fonts and word sizes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 63.0pt; tab-stops: 63.0pt; text-indent: -63.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 1.25in; tab-stops: 1.25in; text-indent: -1.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Situation B : A website inversely equipped with hideous graphics and pictures in terms of resolution, quality and relevancy. (Red pictures with a bright green background) Fonts used were not matching albeit too fanciful. (Too small, artsy font-types)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 63.0pt; tab-stops: 63.0pt; text-indent: -63.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Situation A, visitors that enter the website are immediately awestruck by the design and artwork. The well placed pictures and designs will somewhat symbolizes the positive nature of the company/website. As we know, most people DO judge by impression. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">As for Situation B, the shabby environment due to severe lack of creativity and badly taken pictures wouldn’t exactly help in attracting visitors. Fonts that were hard to be read, let alone comprehended, and mismatching themes in terms of color, isn’t exactly welcoming, is it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Analysis: Now, the main idea here is to always plan your websites, try to get other individuals for feedback and perspectives. Each mindset might differ, but at least you will get room for improvement. Don’t get me wrong, even a plain website with proper design would generate plenty of positive implications, but the key idea here is to at least maintain an impressionable website.</span></div></div>

web design The Key to Better Websites [ Part B ] Design

Introduction Importance of the latter : Design, design, design. To put the wonders of a good design into perspective, imagine a when we are...

Website Customization: What can we do?

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web designing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Every individual would definitely want their website to look good, if not, to the best they can. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create a professional looking webpage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Color Schemes and Themes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">When designing, always choose matching colors. An example of a matching color would be to have a dark background, with visible words and designs. With the dark theme, try not to mix too many bright colors into the design. What we should NEVER do, is to mix two very different colors, such as purple and yellow. Now, of course, it would depend on the purpose of the website, but those two colors are too striking for one who wants it to look more professional.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Themes must always suit the company or rather, the organization / etc. If the website was made to cater for a food company, it would be wise to stick to that particular category, rather than to revert to a different theme, such as machinery. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Fonts should be used in regard to the formality of the website. A simple sans-serif font would suffice in most cases. Exceptional cases such as design and art groups might want to use fanciful designs and fonts. Of course, that’s only if you know what you’re doing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Finally, we must always try to think of our visitors, see the way they see. The resolutions and file sizes of the pictures must not be too large in terms of size. This is to allow maximum compatibility and cater our visitor’s needs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">So, planning is something we should always do, before attempting something.</span></div></div>

web design Website Customization: What can we do?

Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the case in web desi...

The Key to Better Websites [A] Navigation

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Introduction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Importance of the latter :</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">One of the primary implications of a well-organized / good website, is to keep your visitors in the website. A website is definitely created for a purpose, unless intended for personal use, which is the minority. For example, a portfolio website would want to be visited and it’s content viewed. For companies and internet businesses, your website certainly aims to provide product information, to make sales, or somewhat similar. However, most individuals undoubtly prefer visually captivating designs, so on and so forth. It is undeniable that this causes no harm, but one must put himself/herself in other people’s shoes, as to understand how a visitor to the website might think, do and react.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">1 )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Navigation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">As I said, a web designer has to learn how to think the way your visitors think. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 1.25in; tab-stops: .75in; text-indent: -1.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Situation A : Website with good navigation ( 2-3 hyperlinks to target page ), well planned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>in terms of placement, and design.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 63.0pt; tab-stops: 63.0pt; text-indent: -63.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 1.25in; tab-stops: 1.25in; text-indent: -1.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Situation B : Website with poor navigation ( takes forever for the visitor to reach his/her target page ), hard-to-read navigation fonts and poor placement of the navigation buttons/bar.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; margin-left: 63.0pt; tab-stops: 63.0pt; text-indent: -63.0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">In Situation A, a visitor will always want to be able to access his/her target page. For example, the individual comes across your website, and is interested in the product sold, but wants to find more information. He/she finds the navigation with no trouble, and enters the particular product information page.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">As for Situation B, a visitor stumbles into the website, and would also like to find out more information about the product. Unfortunately, due to bad placement and fanciful font-types, the visitor takes forever, or even fails to find the navigation bar. Even when he/she does so, links to the product information are nowhere to be found, (example : home > about > products > product image > etc…[a few more clicks] > product information ).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Analysis : In both situations, wouldn’t a website with characteristics similar to the Situation A be more rewarding ergo better?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%; tab-stops: 0in;"><br /></div></div>

web design The Key to Better Websites [A] Navigation

Introduction Importance of the latter : One of the primary implications of a well-organized / good website, is to keep your visitors in the...

Is It Easy to Create our own Website? What is HTML?

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Creating a website is not so much a feat, if we compare it to the education of other technical skills. Most people tend to give up and pack their bags as soon as they hear the word “programming” and “technical”. They think it`s too much of a hassle to actually learn a whole computer “language”. HTML, the most basic computer language in building websites, is actually pretty simple to understand, as long as we have the interest in learning new things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">What is HTML?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">HTML is the acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. For learning purposes, just think of it as a language that the computer understands. For example, as humans, we were taught different languages; i.e. HTML as a language, is mostly and specifically used to create a website. The web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, will then decipher and interpret the code or rather, language(HTML), and display it in a way we can understand it, just like in a basic webpage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Coding.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Coding the HTML language might be a bit tough for some people, so we can actually purchase programmes, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, or even Microsoft Frontpage. These programmes are solely created to help individuals in designing professional webpages/websites. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Furthermore, one could also gain access to online web-builders, website builders that are inbuilt and can be directly controlled from the net. There are many different and specific builders online.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Books and magazines contain guides that can help in offering tutorials and ways to put up our own websites. Even online tutorials are credible, as in the modern world, information technology is the best and most cost efficient way in retaining knowledge, especially in this particular field.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">So, you could start and build one right away. If you enjoy coding, it might even become a favourable past-time.</span></div></div>

web design Is It Easy to Create our own Website? What is HTML?

Creating a website is not so much a feat, if we compare it to the education of other technical skills. Most people tend to give up and pack...

Should I Create a Website? Do I Need One?

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">People always want to follow the latest thing, be it in fashion, sports, that kind of thing. Websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even young adults have created personal websites with their respective purposes, be it for profit, or for entertainment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">What one must consider, however, before creating a website, are the factors in which must be put to thought before doing so, such as the cost, maintenance, use, web host and so forth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Firstly, associating with the cost, we must always try to find an affordable host, not spending too much, nor too little. A cheap host does not exactly symbolize a credible reliability rating, but we must always look for value for money deals. Also, regarding the efficiency and server/web host reliability, there are many cases of web hosts not providing the service they had assured other people, some had even shut down and were nowhere to be seen. Keep this note in mind, as if you would like a long-lasting website, this would be the first thing to look for.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">Next, would hiring a professional be affordable? Is it the best option? For simple websites, we could always pick up the coding, or even use programs, as it is relatively simple. However, when it comes to more complex coding, and when you want it to do a tad more than just providing information, hiring help in doing so would be the best way. Not only in terms of design, but security is also a key factor in assuring a quality website. If the website also acts as a portal for businesses, security would definitely be the issue here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 110%;">So, having considered the things to do before building a website, do we actually NEED one? If creating one would boost sales or promote positive implications to oneself, then by all means, go ahead and do what’s best. Yet again, planning is the key to success, in everything we do.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 110%;"><br /></div></div>

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