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Web design is the process of creating a user experience
and is made up of the look and feel, the user interface and
information architecture. |
Here are rules we follow when designing websites:
- Meet with the client to understand exactly what is desired and
needed to gain the most from all current web design and marketing
techniques
- Learn as much about the client's future site visitors and customers
and design for them
- The look & feel should represent the company's attitude,
business persona, and messaging
- Navigation should be easily learned and remain consistent
- Limit big images or large file streaming media to decrease
page download times
- Bells and whistles should be kept to a minimum
- Test, test, test
- Get the company's message across easily and succinctly
- Design the site to facilitate e-marketing
- Make the pages search engine friendly
Look & Feel
(appearance)
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User Interface
(usability)
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Information Architecture
(organization)
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Color schemes
Font styles & sizes
Font colors
Graphics
Page layouts
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Links
Forms
Search capabilities
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Site navigation
Content organization
Site maps
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Web
design is made up of the look and feel, the user interface and
information architecture.
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About Web Design
The most important facet of Web design is the user. The design
of a website or Web service should be driven by the user’s
needs. One cannot practice Web design without being affected by
the expectations of future users. A business’s website exists
to communicate and help the user, the existing and potential. Following
this rule will help make sales. Therefore, the user needs to be
central to the creation of a site. To ignore this principle would
be like a retail store planner ignoring the fact that customers
will soon be navigating through the store and insisting on creating
a confusing floor plan that resembled a tortuous maze of racks,
trapping even the most experienced person in a labyrinth of aisles
of goods who will never see the light of day again.
To successfully accomplish the goals of helping, communicating
and selling to the user, a website must have an appropriate appearance
and be easy and intuitive to use. Web design involves first and
foremost the look and feel. This is made up of color schemes, font
styles and sizes, graphics, page layouts, and how all these elements
come together to form the site’s overall appearance.
However, Web design is more than just look and feel, it’s
also usability. Usability is the measure of a website's potential
to accomplish the goals of the user. It is accomplished with the
User Interface, the way in which a user can interact with the site
and how the site invites interaction and responds to it. Other types
of user interfaces (UI) include html forms and site search functions.
Any element of a Web page that invites user interaction can be considered
part of the UI.
When designing a site, the number one question to be asking is,
“How can I design our site’s appearance and usability
to optimally achieve our business’s goals?” If you plan
to hire a person or company to design the site, have the answer
to this question handy when signing the contract and make sure they
understand and can carry out exactly what you need. Beware of design
for design’s sake. In fact, when carrying out any action involving
your business’s website, from designing to coding, to maintaining
and marketing, the issue of optimally achieving your business’s
goals and facilitating the user’s experience should be front
and center at all times.
Among the many sites we've custom designed is ClickitTicket, a client of ours that offers everything from Stone Temple Pilots tickets, Panic at the Disco Boston tickets, Jimmy Buffett Tickets , Cirque Du Soleil Tickets, The Police Red Rocks Tickets and all kinds of affordable MLB tickets and NASCAR tickets too.
Whether you need small business
Web design, large business
Internet marketing services or business
to consumer Web marketing services, we offer it all.
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