Websites designs are always changing and it can be difficult to keep up. Website designers must always keep up with the latest trendses and looks. You could think of website design like clothing facion were you must always have the best a newest things.
The unfornet thing is that the website owner begins to stop thinking of looks and begins think of other thing like content. Although the content is important design is is agreeable more important than one thinks. Lets quickly look at a typical user surfing the web and see what goes thorough the mind.
Jack is surfing the internet for new car. He searches for a red car and comes across site A. The description of the site looks good in his search engine so he clicks and goes to the site. He comes across a bleak white back page with some text and pictures. Even if the content the site is good the look feels unprofessional and outdated. Think of your website as your brick and morder store front. If the windows are dirty the sidewalk is full of leves and cob webs hang on the door the person will probably just move on.
Now jack counties his search and find another interesting site (B) description and clicks. He is presented with nice smooth red background and easy navigation. The site looks and feels professional and friendly. Jack will keep going through the site.
In the case of websites people do judge it by its cover. You can't be stuck in the 90's with a basic html page, things change just like everything else and if you want people to come in you must follow the trend.
If you search around the internet you are bound to find mind numming websites that make you want to step away. Alone the way I will give you a few examples of theses sites so you know what to stay...
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• Try not to add large items like large pictures. Large pictures taken right off of our camera can be nasty on the web. If you directly embed them with html of example they can take forever to load on slower connections. It is recommend that if you must have pictures either shrink them for the web, or place them in some sort of web service like Flicker and then embed the picture.
We have coved a lot but have not even touched the surface. There is a lot more to learn, but by keeping a few of these important items in mind when building a site you should be able to keep yourself out of trouble. Just rember a few things, just because you can does not mean you should, CSS is your friend, clean is happy, and big not always better. Just by using these tips you should have a nice easy to use site that does not bore.
Web sites are just like magazines, newspapers, brochures, menus, or even directions on how to make nitroglycerin from house-hold goods, in that they all have to be put together in such a manner that whoever is reading or browsing over it will be able to clearly distinguish this from that. In this sense, a critique of any particular web site will have justification, while carefully considering also that this is an altogether new medium of information exchange. Now, all of this talk of togetherness is actually a general reference to basic design principles, such as color coordination, if color is used, text size, font choice/ style, art integration, accessibility, and just plain and simple design of the page. For example, it wouldn't be all that appealing to the eyeball if a page being viewed had all the text jumbled up in a corner, so small your eyes were bleeding by the time you figured out that it wasn't even worth the trouble. Darn. It's important to rememeber, especially these days, that what you read is as important as how it looks. Have you ever tried reading an interview in a Raygun magazine? Kinda hard, right? Design totally for its own sake is nice, as art that is, and admittedly it looks cool. However, it's two in the morning and you're standing in line at the corner 7-11 trying to pay for your 40 ounce bottle of Kool-Aid, and you happen to see that your favorite MTV Pearl Crap-clone band is on the cover of this hip magazine and you go to read it, but you can't. It's not because to you failed elementary school three times in two years, but because the maestro in charge decided to get fancy with it and thought it'd be cool if he hid the text under a black box or likewise photograph. I like to loo...
A good design begins with a creation or plan for the making of an object or service. It is a strategic approach towards a person’s (usually a client or target audience) required unique expectations. A design generally defines the specifications and parameters in achieving its main objectives. Often there are no key attributes as to what would make a design successful and interesting. Products and peoples needs and wants or taste often change and revolve around time. This brings a definite change in the market and its emerging’s trends. This cycle of evolution will always exist, but finally it is the factor of emotional response with the customer that will determine whether a product is successful or not. Whether the design is an object or it is a concept, the design that we see is an accumulation of various concepts and decisions that have been brought together from a variety of disciplines. In order for a consumer to view the design as something that is good it takes a unique combination of aesthetics, quality and ergonomics to make a design successful. Often we recognize a bad design at its first glance and a bad design often forces one to take in many confusing and conflicted content. So what makes our design/ product fail?
I created my website on weebly.com because I knew it was a simple website creator. I got to choose the theme and the layout of the website and add different pages to it so it would fit my style. I first added text to the website in more a blog style form, the text was about my own experiences in dance because I wanted to give people some background on me. I added links to other pages, such as dance studios, that people could find helpful if they were looking for a place to dance. I added photographs and videos to the page to make it more interesting and to support what I had written. My intended audience for the website was people coming to Michigan State and looking for a place to dance or just interested in dance in general.
The design adopted in the development of a website is a major factor that determines if the website meets its mandate or not. The design of a website is what attracts users to the site and even keeps them for prolonged periods of time on the website. This report gives a critique of The Times online website. This site can be categorized as an informative site. The mandate of this site is to provide information to users on a broad category of topics. These include sports, general news, community events, entertainment, classifieds among other categories of information. The critique presented in this report focuses on a number of aspects of website design. These aspects include searchability, navigation, design, interactivity and the content on the website. The findings are as discussed in the sections that follow.
My job is to capture the essence of your brand and design/develop a website that compels your visitors to choose you. One of the most common concepts I hear from web clients is what "they like" in a website. I am the "visitor advocate". I challenge you to think, "what would they
...ecting a wide range of design styles and contents” (Denise Agosto, p.258). This is important to keep in mind when creating a website. Cites need to be able to appeal to a large range of groups and personalities. When this is done websites will have the most success.
As an option of hunting down online style magazines, you'll crave to scan for online sites. There is an expansive scope of online web locales that are made to supply you with free design recommendations. These web destinations may not ceaselessly be redesigned on a steady premise, yet they are much of the time an extraordinary, free approach to comprehend with respect to the latest in the style environment. Truth be told, you'll likewise find that an enormous scope of on the web fashion internet locales have on the web message sheets or on the web message gatherings. These are little groups where you can interface and talk with respects to design with other web parts. On the web message sheets and discussions make learning with respects to design not simply free, all things considered likewise charming and
Johnson, T. (2011). S.P.I.D.E.R. A strategy for evaluating websites. Library Media Connection, 29(6), 58-59. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a1fe208a-6fb8-4e68-8191-7ef041e2d483%40sessionmgr111&vid=25&hid=113
Compare ‘user side’ and ‘server side’ factor that can influence website performance File type Image files; When inserting images into your website there are a few consideration you must account for such as file type and image files. There are three types of files, one of these file type is a JEPG. A jpeg image is a still high quality image. A large jpeg images can take longer to download due to the file size therefore affecting the website performance. The user side factors is having a good internet connection to load the picture.
Next is in terms of the design and aesthetics. Layout that being used for this website is a plain white which easier people to read the text that is in black, in contrast and suitable for the concept of showroom online. The font is also suits which is not too big and not too small to be read by people. To highlight the main subject or the main product, the font is being bold to alert customers that they choose the right one. There is no audio available for this website or even a video. But somehow, as it was a home furnishing website, most of the pictures being used by the website is in JPEG format to deliver a clear view of the products to customers.
The design of the Web site is very bright and appealing to the eye. Its layout is inviting and easy to navigate. Its design is consistent through all pages. There are many graphics including, photographs, illustrations, and animated buttons and GIFs. These graphics are placed in an orderly fashion and do not create a cluttered appearance. The site has its own search engine which assists in navigating throughout the site.
As the Internet is growing to grow in vogue and size, so have the scalability demands on its infrastructure. Expanding growth without gullibility solutions will finally result in more network load and unacceptable service response times. These are the reasons for which the web users are suffering from the network congestion and server overloading. Web user's bad experience on the performance in World Wide Web increase the gullibility demands on Web’s infrastructure.
Now that we are living in an ever changing world, technology is viewed as the most resourceful tool in keeping up with the pace. Without the use of technology, communication would be limited to using mail for delivery and encyclopedias for research. Although technology has improved the way we communicate and find information for research, the information is not always valid. Unfortunately, for those of us who use the internet for shopping, research, or reading articles of personal interest the information is not treated the same as a your magazine or book. While such literature is reviewed by an editorial staff, internet literature or information can be published by anyone. In order to reap the full benefit of having the use of technology for any purpose, there are five basic criteria’s one must keep in mind as an evaluating tool for deciding whether or not the particular website is a reliable source for information.
Having a website is a necessity nowadays, especially for people who are in business. Having a website helps promote your company’s services, for consumers to view and research your products easily, and also because internet is universal, people worldwide could purchase your products. Aside from business purposes, a website could also be built for personal use. If you’re into blogging, you can have your own site to express everything you want or feel; a website could also be used to inform people. Due to technology’s fast evolution, creating a website is now a very simple task even for those who have no background in web designing, all you need is a working computer and an internet connection and you’re ready to create your very own site!
Next, you have to develop the layout of the web page. You should draw some simple sketches to display the basic “look and feel” of the web page. The use of a specific theme or template should be used to maintain the same basic look throughout the web site. Keep the reader of the web site in mind when designing the web site. Most readers will not usually wait on large graphic files to load, especially on the home page.