Designing Neat Websites
Design is an important aspect of a Website. After all, it’s visual appeal that impinges upon your senses first. A Website that is designed with a good visual appeal contributes towards the average time a user would spend on your Website.
Now, how to achieve a good Web design.
The first ingredient in the recipe is of course a good Web designer. However, here is the rest of the recipe to a clean and pleasant visual feel.
- Work out a rough sketch of the layout on paper and see how well the links and textual sections of the Web page fit within that. Keep arranging and re-arranging them till you are happy with the skeleton of the Web page.
- Next, choose the main images which would run throughout the main page and the sub-pages of the Website. This should be done very carefully as images should be crisp, very relevant to the theme of the Website and with attractive colors.
- Now, work with the color scheme of the entire site and that should go well with the color of the main or permanent images of the Website.
- By now you should have decided on the most important elements of the Web page and you are now ready to start building the main page of your Website. Well, almost
- You choose the other minor, but still important, elements of the site such as the format and style of the icons to be used within the site, whether or not you should use color in the background of the textual area, the texture of headings, shape of the buttons etc.
- Keep in mind that you should color the background of the textual sections of the page only when it is absolutely warranted by the theme of the site. It’s important to remember that no color can substitute White for back ground as far as legibility is concerned and the color Black applies in the same way in case you want colored text for your site.
- You are now ready to open both your Web and image editors and are ready to start building your Website.
The above are some very basic and simple tips for you that may pay very well in the long run if kept in mind while building your Web page.
Cost Cutting In Web Design Projects – A Guide
How many times have you wondered if the quoted $1000.00 were actually $600.00 that were on the inside of your budget ? All the time you would say J
Clients are always anxious to get the least quote from their prospective Web Development vendors. No big deal. We all seem to gravitate towards the best quality with least price.
However, did you imagine that you could actually have your Web vendor reduce the cost of your Web design project by judicious planning ? The answer is, Yes, could.
There are quite a few areas in a given project which can be plugged with proper planning at your end that may help your Web vendor to estimate your project accurately and thereby giving you a quote which otherwise may have been on a higher side.
Project specifications which are ambiguous are a major factor that cause your Web vendor to estimate your project broadly. And a broad estimation naturally means that the quoted amount contains an extra margin the Web company has allowed for something that isn’t understood or conveyed yet but may come up later as a surprise.
The more close and on dot the Web project specifications are, the less chance there would be for a Web Design Company to assume and apply a charge to something that may not even be needed.
Next comes the importance of breaking your Web project – if it is large – in phases. Consider the most important elements of your project implementing which would help your project with an initial launch. Even if you may want the complete project to be launched in one single go, still break it in phases for your Web company and request a phase-wise price. This will reduce the chances of project’s value being overestimated.
And last but not the least choose your Web company with care. It would really help if you can have the Web companies in your portfolio show you similar sized (may not be similar themed) projects that they may have done and compare the prices each had charged vis-à-vis how well they are executed.
The above and other such factors could really cause your Web company to present you a quote significantly less that what they may have presented you otherwise.