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Creating a Website – Saving Money!
Did you ever hear that outsourcing may save you a lot of time and money? That’s very true: if you don’t know how to cook, but need to organize event with food, you will hire a catering service. If you are not a professional security guard – you will not take care of the security of your venture. You will hire professional security guards. But for some reason everyone thinks that they know how to make websites, disregarding the fact that it’s a knowledge which you don’t learn overnight. And even over two or three nights.
If you are not a professional web developer, you may not know a lot of details that are crucial for effective work of a website. I can’t stress it enough, it’s very important that any website is done by or under supervision of a professional web developer. Otherwise a lot of money and – what’s even worse – time can be wasted for a website that is not going to work properly.
Let’s play a little game. I will ask you questions, and you answer sincerely – no peaking and looking for the answers online. What we need – is to determine if you are ready to even start working on your own website. Now, this is for you. I don’t require you to send me a proof of all positive answers. You will know yourself if what is asked of you below is anything that is familiar to you…
Print and Web Design: What Are The Differences And Why It’s Important To Design Differently For Web.
While working as a web designer, I have many times run across incredibly talented and fine artists who, while doing amazing jobs for print production, tried to design for web with very little knowledge on the technology, computer-human interaction, usability, and other important aspects that distinguish web products from print ones.
Usability and Navigation: How to Make it Work
We have already mentioned the importance of usability in website development. Usability defines certain principles according to which the site has to be laid out, structured, and navigated. It’s how convenient and easy the website appears to a visitor.
Unfortunately, many websites hardly can be considered usable as they turn off a lot of potential customers just because it’s hard to find a menu or a product price list, or to navigate through different sections. Read full post »
What Is Usability And Why It Is So Important
As there are rules in every type of production, there are rules in developing websites. When you are publishing a book, you wouldn’t put its title on the back cover and print pages backwards (unless your culture tells you so). There is a certain set of rules in website development, which were created to help a visitor interact with your project in the most efficient way. It is called usability.
Web Design – Interview to Women in Business Magazine, Orlando, FL
What is involved in the job when it comes to web design?
First of all it’s not enough to just be able to use a web constructor where anyone can drag and drop anything to the page, save it as an html file, and upload it to the web. There are some serious skills and experiences involved in this kind of job, such as: strong knowledge of HTML and CSS, design principles, typography, color balance, web graphics formats, understanding of visual balance, ability to edit graphics, understanding how web server works, knowledge of usability, logic, and more. These are just basic skills every web designer, even a beginner, must have. Read full post »
