Website Designing Tips for Beginners

How to Design a website”. Every newbie web designer in-making is searching on various search engines to find out the answer to their query. Expert Website designers today have plenty of options in terms of tools and technologies that they can use to build their web pages.

Learning various tips and tricks about web designing training is always essential for beginners. In fact, even those who are making a career out of designing websites for various clients should need to keep themselves updated with the latest information so they will never be left behind by the competition. When you have decided to start building and designing your very own website, you need to consider a lot of things. These tips will always be valuable if you want to become an expert web designer.

This article will answer some of the fundamental questions/issues in website designing:

1. Simplicity and cleanliness of the design are always preferred:

If you know Photoshop or Fireworks, you might be tempted to apply all these great and complicated designs on your website. Always remember not to overdo everything. If the pages of your site are filled with various colors and artistic designs, it may look cluttered and this will usually put off your site visitors. Keep your design simple by emphasizing important information using visual images, organizing the information for easy reading, optimizing images to allow fast downloads and complementing images with its text equivalent.

2. The layout of the text is also important:

 It is better if you keep it narrow. It allows your readers to browse the information faster thus preventing them from getting bored. If you read newspapers daily, you can see the reason why.

3. Your site should always be filled with contents:

It should be updated regularly with topics related to the chosen niche. Visitors usually come back to check for new topics once they like the website. Web design is not all about the images and the colors; it is also about the written content. Therefore you must make sure that you are providing only interesting and informative posts. Asking for comments and feedback from readers will help you see the flaws of your site.

4. When using pictures to communicate with the audience, use it effectively:

Make sure that the color or the motive you choose fits the nature of the niche. The images should not overpower the contents of the site. If you are for example promoting a website for little girls, you can use color pink and add appropriate images like butterflies or flowers. If creating a business site, you may opt for more professional colors like blue, white, grey or black. If you want to highlight something, you can use visuals. You may use simple buttons for different links found on your site.

5. Make sure that every design that you create in all your site’s web pages is consistent:

 It makes your site easier to remember and the contents of the site are not hard to look for because they are organized to be the somehow similar from one page to another. The colors and the icons should be the same from one page to another and the fonts should be limited to few styles.

6. Always cater to the needs of the customers:

Read customer feedback and suggestions on how to improve your site and apply the things that could help improve your design. The information should be easy to find. The accessibility is essential for a website. Visitors feel important once you interact with them and feel responsible for their needs.

 7. Always consider to incorporate the common things into your web pages:

 If you want to make your site a bit unique, make sure it will not provide you with risks. For example, you can usually see the links to other sites, especially social media sites and feeds in a certain part of the page that can be seen once you open it (mostly beside the categories). These links are usually grouped together. Changing it the way how people are used to it will only make it hard to locate. It could prevent any chances from getting more leads to your site.

8. Do not use framesets on your websites:

They are not required in most cases and framesets will kill you with search engines.

9. Do not use a 'heavy' background in your web pages:

Heavy backgrounds will distract the users from what you are trying to present to them and makes the text hard to read. Remember that your motive should be to express your things to the audience rather than showing them fake stuff.

10. Use sharp clear pictures:

In order to attract more traffic to your website, your website must have good clear pictures. Pictures should be according to your business.

11. Get a sharp clear copy of your logo:

If you are a company, you want to look professional so that people have confidence in giving you their money, a crappy looking logo isn't going to do it.

 12. Avoid the flying text:

Avoid special attractive styles and designs, these special effects make your site heavy and less attractive for the users to look at.

 13. If you are trying to sell something:

Having live credit card processing will increase your sales substantially. Sometimes when people want to start selling online they avoid the perceived trouble of hooking up with a credit card processing service because of the programming required. Results have clearly shown that websites that do provide credit card processing in their e-commerce enabled websites to have a much greater conversion rate.

14. After designing your website is finished, go ahead and check its usability. 

Try to open the various web pages of the site and click all the links. You should know what to add and what to change. Another important thing to do is to open your website in all available web browsers. Making a series of tests on your website will prevent any problems in the future.

Above all, make the website pages no more than 60-70k (I shoot for 50k) if you can, and keep things very simple so your clients have an easy time finding things.

In a nutshell:

Your web-browser will reuse images that it has loaded. So (if for example) if you have an image on your 1st page that you also use on 2 other pages in your website, this image only gets downloaded once by the browser and subsequent times the browser will automatically load a copy of the image it has from its own cache.

Conclusion:

When you have decided to start building and designing your very own website, you need to consider a lot of things. These tips will always be valuable if you want to become an expert web designer.