The Process Of Web Design

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It’s interesting, it’s imaginative, it’s creative – but it requires a process to abide by. Web design is for a born artist. But you cannot let the imagination run unregulated. This is a process to follow. There are some steps to follow.

Let’s take a look at the detailed steps that web design requires:

•Define the purpose of the site. Right – you must know what the site needs to portray. Whether it is a site that is used by a professional large enterprise, a bank, an ecommerce business, a knowledge management site, games website etc. Once you know the purpose of the site, you can plan the design accordingly.

•The next step would be to plan the web design. Plan exactly how you would like the navigation to be, decide the site map, decide the shopping cart features (if needed). Decide what you want the site to be before you open an editor to start designing.

•Now start the design. You can now get straight to the point, open your editor and start with the layout, decide the colour scheme and theme.

•Site content should be gathered and uploaded after this. Text, graphics and ...
... multimedia if needed. Gather all content for your web design before you actually start putting things together.

•Build your site. Now all the planning and information gathering is over. You can start with building your website with known tools and putting it all together with HTML, CSS and such other technologies.

•Always test your website before you declare it finished. Check for a preview of your web pages, ensure that the HTML and CSS are in sync.

•Finally, the step of maintenance is the most important. Keeping up with time is important too. Re-designs are a part of it. If you feel the website has become old school, re-design it, pep it up, and keep it up to date with latest trends and technologies.

On a closing note, web design is crucial for your website. With the perfect web design you can create the best impression for your website. With a little planning, a little design and help of appropriate technology you can develop the best web design for your website. Well, testing is equally important. With thorough testing you can be sure that your design works well not only at your end, but also with the customer’s browser, well, all popular browsers for that matter. Understand that the design we make is the one that can or cannot attract thousands of visitors and drive traffic to a business. This traffic in turn can be converted to customers.

So, web design is not just imagination, fun and frolic. It is a well thought of process and uses a well defined procedure and appropriate technology to implement. Well there are many factors that you need to consider as well – like compatibility and technology. With this view let us all as designers work towards designing nothing less than the best and the most appropriate sites for our clients.