15 secrets of good web design

For a good web design it is very important to know what users are interested in and how they perceive your web site. In this article we will tell you about the most important moments and their practical usage in good web design.

1.     Text attracts more attention than graphics. On the contrary to the popular amateur’s point of view, users are not attracted by graphics. Most of them come to your web site for the information and not because of your design. That’s why try to make an accent on the text content. It is one of the most important parts of good web design.

2.     At first users look at the left upper corner of the page. Interfaces of most programs follow this rule. You should also take this moment into consideration for creating a good web design. If you want to create a really successful web site, you must remember that most of the users are used to this rule.

3.     Users ignore banners. Maybe you earn money by advertisements on your web site, but remember that most of the users ignore banners. If you want to earn money, you should experiment with the forms of ads.

4.     Unusual effects and original fonts are often ignored. Why? Because many of the users take them for advertisement. According to the researches it’s hard for users to find needed information in a bright text and they ignore it. If you want to have a good web design, try not to overuse unusual effects.

5.     Use numeration for your lists. Than it would be easier for readers to find useful information.

6.     Users are interested in headings. Make your headings interesting and attractive. Try to use keywords in your headings for better search results of your web site.

7.     Short paragraphs are easier perceived than long. In a good web design text is divided into short paragraphs that are easy for understanding.

8.     One column is better for attraction of the users’ attention. The easier is the navigation the better is your web design.

9.     Text advertisement is the most often viewed advertisement type. Users don’t pay attention to anything that reminds them of ads banners, that’s why text ads are more effective. In good web design they look like a part of content.

10.   Professional lay-out attracts attention. Use bold and italic types to hold users’ attention.

11.    The bigger are the images, the more attention they attract. But remember your images should correlate with your content.

12.    Clear seen faces attract attention. If you are going to use photos with people, their faces should be clearly seen. Remember that photos of common people attract more attention than photos of models.

13.     Users don’t like big blocks of text. The researchers state that most of the users avoid big blocks of text information. In good web design you should use numeration and symbols.

14.     Use white and blank parts on your web site. Try to leave some parts of your site visually blank. Web sites that are overfilled with information are often ignored. Try to use easy navigation and more open space, so that users’ eyes don’t get tired.

15.    A menu in the upper part of your site is the most effective. In ideal web design users should view as many pages of your web site as possible, that’s why it is so important to give an understandable and easily seen menu for navigation.

Hiring: Company VS Individual

You have definitely heard such words like – All businesses need a website to be successful. Finally when you decide to develop your own website, you are facing with another problem – who to choose Web Design Studio or Freelance designer? There are many advantages and disadvantages that both of them possess. Let’s look them through.

1. What is Web Design Company? It is usually group of people, some bigger, some smaller with various knowledge needed for web design and development. As a company it has law documents for contracts, bank accounts and so the biggest advantage of work with a web design company is reliability. Web Design companies undertake great efforts to earn good reputation and invest a great amount of efforts in pleasing customers not to loose it. If you need to develop a big website with complex functions and lots of pages, a web design company may work with you over a long term period to guarantee that this website keeps being effective.

2. What is Freelancers? Freelancer is an individual with certain knowledge package and usually with narrow field of possible tasks to perform. There are many of them on the internet so the competition is hard and so one of the biggest advantages of hiring freelancers is price. Freelancer often works by himself over your project and, as usual, a billing process is simple and he or she often has hourly prices.

3. Responsibilities. As I’ve already wrote – web design studios are more responsible as they usually have fixed geographic position, office, and common for firms infrastructure. Because of it you have more law means to affect on your performer while freelancer usually has elusive nature and usually situated in other city or even country and can easily evade responsibility for not quality or exceeded terms. Even though freelancers often use contracts too, web design studios are more responsible. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom Web Design

Nowadays it is not enough just to have money to start your business, especially in web sphere. You see, in 1995 there were about 19 thousand websites on the internet and only in 2009 were added over 47 million websites. So with such quantity of websites and continuous progressive growth, you have to stand out for your business to be successive. For this reason you will need to choose proper web design company to develop custom website for you and to promote it.

There are many services on the internet to make “do it yourself” website, however even those poor means to customize your website, that such services provide can not meet your demands if you care about successfulness of your website. It is well known, that people tend to trust companies and also websites, which are recognizable and professionally made. And so, as I suppose you read this article willing to have great and profitable website, I do not advise you if you don’t have or have little experience in web design to try your own strengths and also do not ask your relatives or friends to develop website for you (except if they are in-house professionals of web design company). Working with professionals you will have more chances to arrest user’s attention to your website and reach your goals and also there are more options of influence on your performer if it is web design company that works on contract basis with you. If you are already agreed with all written above and you are going to apply to web design company to develop custom web design, then you have to be aware, that you have to keep up strong cooperation during creation of your website with your performer in order to get as more customized and representative website as it possible. You may read the main advantages of custom web design below.

Advantages of custom web design.

-You are the boss. You can create any detail, any button and any navigation order on your website exactly as you like. It will be great help to maintain your strategy of business and to separate your website among other faceless, similar ones.

- One step ahead. As you will start from blank sheet choosing custom web design, you will have an advantage to research websites of your competitors and create a better one, leaving them one step behind.

- Wallet friendly. You also have time to do research among web design companies to find the most affordable yet very professional one. And you will get professional website at economical cost. Believe me, it is possible, just take your time and look around.

And remember to consider following points while any web design company creates your site.

- Proper navigation. Be sure that navigation on your website provides smooth experience for your visitors. Structural and understandable navigation also helps search engines to easily read and index your content, which will be great assistance in promotion of your site.

- SEO and unique content. Include in contract with web design studio search engine optimization service. This will help you to have highly ranked website due to presence of unique and right written content with proper keywords on your website and other SEO techniques.

- Bring your philosophy. Make sure that your website will represent your activity, your philosophy and your goals in order to be understood by users and to be memorized.

- Feedback. Provide easy way to be in contact with your visitors, create contact form and show all possible means for users to contact you. Create “About Us” page.

- Flash technologies. This vastly popularized technology provides great visual impact for your website yet it able to drastically lengthen load time of your website. Be careful with it and choose light graphic, audio and video elements in flash plug-ins whenever it is possible.

And remember the more efforts you will apply to your custom web design the more visitors you will be able to allure and, as consequence, you will be awarded with greater revenue. Good luck in any pursue you will choose.

How to make a good web design

How make good Web Design?

The essential thing in this question is definitely choosing of proper Web Design Company. Nowadays there is great amount of them in the market and it becomes really challenging to choose the good one which may fully satisfy your needs and provide affordable web design. There are some aspects you want to know described below.

Take your all gravity and begin to search Web Design Company that will match all your needs. Pay attention to the price for the services because the same service in different companies may differ sometimes very highly. So use your intelligence when selecting your best deal.
Make sure that designer knows SEO (Search Engine Optimization) it will means that you can be sure that graphic design will be with presence of the latest SEO ethics and terms.

Remote acquaintance: Look through portfolio of the company you liked. Decide whether you like their works. Remember if the site has been made well then it can do well in ecommerce; that is how the trading and promotion of products and services over the internet works.
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