Much has been said about website design. The topic itself opens a lot of ideas between internet savvies and website designers. In as much as every internet user wanted to have their own page in the web, webmasters can only provide them a pseudo-personalized form called web hosting. This page has a given set of functionality to enable users to download/upload files, post messages for individuals and groups, or design the page according to their preferences. Popular examples are blogging platforms and social networking pages. But these functionality are only limited to some sort of webmaster's purpose in creating the page and cater only to the basic demand of majority of users.
Such backdoor encourages anyone to make and design their own website according to their preferences. However, getting a bad website design is far worse than the limitations of hosted sites. Not to mention making your own website needs payment versus free service of a hosted site. Having your own website could just be anything, but a successful website is really something. The following were just basic areas of consideration in conceptualizing a website design :
1. Purpose
The reason why a website has been created is a foremost consideration in website designing. In fact, every inch of a website and its sub-domains will reflect its purpose. The website purpose can range from business oriented, open information site, directory listings, blogging site, and even to extremely personal. This purpose will also control on what stuff the site is made of and even to its most subtle modifications later.
2. Organization
After the purpose has been established, the organization of the site will be composed of flow of operations on how every single user will interact with the page. Sometimes, it is called the blueprint of the website where placement of banners, main menu buttons, and topic tabs will be selected. The goal of website organization is the enhancement in navigating streams of data found on the site. Some even fortified it with an advanced algorithm scripts. Regardless of software applications to be used, a highly organized website will always enable users to land on the page where they wanted to be.
3. Color Scheming
Some may have been not so careful with this aspect but it can be as important as the website's organization. After all, website designing is still both art and science. Appropriate color selection for every square inch of a webpage matters a lot in supporting the purpose and organization of the site. Aesthetically speaking, some vibrant colors may become insignificant in some sorts of combination in the same way as a dimmer hue can become a sound choice for a particular spot. Although noone could tell at what extent a certain color may become redundant or significant. Some website designers often used simulations on different color combination and at different levels of shade. In this way they can evaluate the visual appearance of the page in the web.
4. Size and Space
Different data types correspond to a certain size or space in the page. A size refers to the amount of memory a certain data type could consume while a space is an area occupied by a certain data type. A text can be the simplest and the smallest among data types but it can also occupy a considerable amount of space just to convey specific information. A picture, on the other hand, could paint a thousand words but it is likely to be static and cost more size than text. Video files offer great interactivity with the user but they consumes a lot of memory and takes time to be loaded in the page. Thus, a significant balance in using different data types must exist somewhere for a website designer to discover.
5. Promotional Features
Aside from the purpose of why a website has been created, every website designer should always anticipate the promotional features of the site. After all, why make a site when you can't broadcast it? Website designers often incorporate the sites capacity to attract search engines since a significant number of internet users browse over search engines for every particular topic. In onsite search engine optimization (SEO), proper placement of topic words over the page will make it to be "crawled" by search engine robots called spiders. Conventionally, the more your website talks about a particular topic in a non-spammy way could make your site land on the primary search engine results pages (SERP's). SERP rankings indirectly determine the number of users visiting your website.
Although website designing involves a lot of hard decisions to make highly successful websites, it is still so fun doing it. Imagine being a digital artist and your website is your masterpiece. The more you spend a little more time on every area of consideration, the more it will become detailed. It will also reflect on the way how you make your site more effective on whatever ends.
Such backdoor encourages anyone to make and design their own website according to their preferences. However, getting a bad website design is far worse than the limitations of hosted sites. Not to mention making your own website needs payment versus free service of a hosted site. Having your own website could just be anything, but a successful website is really something. The following were just basic areas of consideration in conceptualizing a website design :1. Purpose
The reason why a website has been created is a foremost consideration in website designing. In fact, every inch of a website and its sub-domains will reflect its purpose. The website purpose can range from business oriented, open information site, directory listings, blogging site, and even to extremely personal. This purpose will also control on what stuff the site is made of and even to its most subtle modifications later.
2. Organization
After the purpose has been established, the organization of the site will be composed of flow of operations on how every single user will interact with the page. Sometimes, it is called the blueprint of the website where placement of banners, main menu buttons, and topic tabs will be selected. The goal of website organization is the enhancement in navigating streams of data found on the site. Some even fortified it with an advanced algorithm scripts. Regardless of software applications to be used, a highly organized website will always enable users to land on the page where they wanted to be.
3. Color Scheming
Some may have been not so careful with this aspect but it can be as important as the website's organization. After all, website designing is still both art and science. Appropriate color selection for every square inch of a webpage matters a lot in supporting the purpose and organization of the site. Aesthetically speaking, some vibrant colors may become insignificant in some sorts of combination in the same way as a dimmer hue can become a sound choice for a particular spot. Although noone could tell at what extent a certain color may become redundant or significant. Some website designers often used simulations on different color combination and at different levels of shade. In this way they can evaluate the visual appearance of the page in the web.
4. Size and Space
Different data types correspond to a certain size or space in the page. A size refers to the amount of memory a certain data type could consume while a space is an area occupied by a certain data type. A text can be the simplest and the smallest among data types but it can also occupy a considerable amount of space just to convey specific information. A picture, on the other hand, could paint a thousand words but it is likely to be static and cost more size than text. Video files offer great interactivity with the user but they consumes a lot of memory and takes time to be loaded in the page. Thus, a significant balance in using different data types must exist somewhere for a website designer to discover.
5. Promotional Features
Aside from the purpose of why a website has been created, every website designer should always anticipate the promotional features of the site. After all, why make a site when you can't broadcast it? Website designers often incorporate the sites capacity to attract search engines since a significant number of internet users browse over search engines for every particular topic. In onsite search engine optimization (SEO), proper placement of topic words over the page will make it to be "crawled" by search engine robots called spiders. Conventionally, the more your website talks about a particular topic in a non-spammy way could make your site land on the primary search engine results pages (SERP's). SERP rankings indirectly determine the number of users visiting your website.
Although website designing involves a lot of hard decisions to make highly successful websites, it is still so fun doing it. Imagine being a digital artist and your website is your masterpiece. The more you spend a little more time on every area of consideration, the more it will become detailed. It will also reflect on the way how you make your site more effective on whatever ends.
Top 5 Considerations in Website Designing
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