Sunday, March 10, 2013

10 Important Ideas for Website Design

By John Rock


Create for Humans. We quite often focus on appearance of a site. We just want to create a beautiful site. We could make a direct impact with audiences. However, that is not enough to make your website to be highly valued. We need to step back and check out the general reason for website design. You can find at less one reason behind any design. Design is satisfying the needs of humans.

Design for Mobile. This is past news. All people are remarking mobile phones come to be the most popular source of Internet traffic. We cannot ignore the numerous mobile users. Design your site with mobile-first responsive design.

Evolution of Tools for Website Design and Management. Fresh tools and processes will be released in 2013. Since Adobe released serial new products under "Edge Brand" which is tools for creating interactive and animated web content. The hot web management tool - CMS should care for mobile support and boost CMS interfaces. This tends to empower content administers with better flexibility and location-independent content management ability.

Make your Website Scalable. Your website can support both low and high pixel densities if it is scalable. Considering users get into your site in variance devices and those devices have different screen size. This can also avoid breaking some details or images in your site.

Make your Website Touchable. Touchscreen is not only found in mobile devices. There are many devices grow to be touchable and connect to Internet. Such as touchscreen laptop, touchscreen digital camera, touchscreen PC and touchscreen TV... They all are able to connect to web. Adding touchable facility is the trend need to go on website design.

More Media. 2G will no longer available on the market, as 3G and 4G become the leading mobile network. The speed of network is raised day by day, so that we can load media in site in shorter length of time. Relative videos can enrich your site content that is a good option to make an impact with audiences.

No Flash. HTML5 and CSS3 arise and they are able to do what Flash do. Flash is simply dropping down. Some investigations mention Flash needed more workload of CPU. HTML5 and CSS3 are better across platforms and they don't need extra plug-ins. They can become the industry standard.

Optimize Search Function. Search become more and more important factor in every aspect of design. It is really the most reliable method to divide what we want and what we don't want. It is better to generate your personal design of search function with certain features. Otherwise, you may shift Google Search into your site to economize resources.

Typography Art. Typography is significant to website design, for the reason that text is the major medium to carry out your content. Picture and video are bonus and they are not the main dish. Typography will save page weight to enhance speed of loading.

Using Responsive Web Design. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a web design solution aimed at making sites to provide an optimal viewing experience-easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling-across different devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). You may disappoint several users, if you create a website without thinking about the user's experience on mobile and tablets. RWD is a big selling point of your website. Because users want to visit your website in several methods, RWD is the method to tackle it.




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