By Von Rod Limpot, Jan. 30, 2010 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
Every web designer has its own unique and creative ideas and styles in creating a web design. And with lots of ideas in mind, sometimes it results to an unorganized web design. Sometimes, they tend to forget that users only wanted to see a subtle web design for a website. Websites that are pleasing to the user’s eyes. Here are some ways on how to make simple and well-organized web design that pleases to the user’s wants.
WHITE SPACE
White spaces are the spaces that separates your web elements. Make use of the white space to help you in organizing your web design. With the proper allocation of the white space, it gives a professional impression of a website. Aside from the impression, it also eases the eyes of the user and gives a warm mood which makes user’s feel comfortable.
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By PhilWebServices, Nov. 7, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
Philippine web development companies that offer professional web design services are now bewildering and can be exciting especially when one looks at their portfolio. Portfolio is a gallery of sites created by the web design company that showcases its best work. Close examination of the portfolio gives an impression of the quality, the style and the content of sites made by the web designer including its market potential.
Web design companies should fulfill all the essential elements in making a web site. It should feature good design components, user-friendly navigation, simple and google search engine optimization.
It is a must that you test the sites in its portfolio to thoroughly determine the web designer’s proficiency and to check if the web design company meets your business and marketing needs.
The portfolio must show the standard design of a website which is easier to update and far more likely to work well using any web browser. Your web designer should be consistent all throughout. Scan the portfolio carefully. Bear in mind that un-friendly home page messages create a negative impression of your site. Messages like, “Flash required”, or “best viewed using Netscape” or “best viewed using Internet Explorer”.
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By Von Rod Limpot, Oct. 15, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
How you design your web site will affect your browsers’ online experience. Bear in mind that each visitor is a potential customer to your web site. So make sure that your web site is user friendly and the more they enjoy being on it, the higher the stake that they will make an online purchase.
Hence, a well designed website is the key in increasing your sales. How to do that? Here’s some tips.
Colors determined how your web site comes across to your browsers. Dull colors will have a “plain and boring” image on your web site while bright colors have a “chaotic and unprofessional” look. The colors yellow and red draws the eye in. Thus, using these colors for banners and adverts are effective on catching the browsers’ attention. Nevertheless, apply these colors moderately because it causes eye strain meaning visitors woudn’t want to look at your website for long period of time.
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By PhilWebServices, Oct. 6, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 1 Comment
The basic principles of designs help the web designers on putting together all the design elements in an appropriate manner. Using these principles, it also help web designers build more pleasing and useful designs since design is beyond embedding HTML tags up to the site.
BALANCE. The principle of balance shows you how to lay out your pages so that it will work. It is also the allocation of the light elements and the heavy elements on a website. The larger and the darker the elements are, the heavier it will be in the design. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. The position of elements on the page determines how balanced the page appears. It is in the layout that the balance in web design is found.
CONTRAST. Contrast is not just all about colors, as what all people thought. But it is more than that. There are the contrasting sizes, contrasting textures and contrasting shapes. Contrast in design is an accentuation of the differences between elements in a design. By using more subtle differences in contrasting font sizes, images, layout shapes and text styles, you can take advantage of contrast without blasting your browsers with a loud contrasting color scheme.
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