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Friday, May 9, 2014

Improve Your Web Design Skills With These Tips

By Meagan Smith


If you are beginner to web design chances are you feel a little overwhelmed sometimes with the huge amounts of information available on the internet about all the different platforms. There are many platforms like Wordpress & Joomla which each require special designing aspects. In the following article we will provide with a few tips you can start using today to improve your designing skills.

As a web designer you should not only worry about the look and feel of the page but also what type of functions it will include. Your goal is to make it as easy as possible for the visitor to navigate on the website, but also make it stylish and unique. A simple feature that every huge site should have is a "search" feature. This feature is important for any site with lots of content.

Speed is king on the Internet, so you need to make sure your web pages load quickly. You cannot expect much patience from your visitors. If they are stuck looking at an incomplete page for minutes on end while your content loads, they are quite likely to close your site and find what they're looking for elsewhere.

A good way to see how designs are changing by season is to checkout what the professional design companies are doing. For example you can look at their portfolios and evaluate their work so you can get inspire. The more you research and learn on the topic the better you'll become at it.

If you are putting up a business website, avoid free hosting sites as this will cost you business. Although everyone likes to hear that something is free, there really is no such thing. Though you won't pay for the hosting in dollars, your site will suffer when it is constantly crowded with advertisements that you have absolutely no control over. This will cause you to make sacrifices in your business ethic and design, and customers will shy away from your sites.

We believe designing a website should not be rocket science, instead you will see that the more you learn about the topic the easier it will be for you to successfully design and launch a new website. However you should always keep researching and learning as much as possible because this will improve your web design skills.




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