The Basics – What You Need to Know About Web Design

Even though Web design is a new industry, it’s becoming a basic and fundamental part of every business’s image, and advertising campaigns.

Web design includes graphic design and web development.

Graphic design is the creation of the actual look and the layout of the website.
It is very important to create designs that are attractive and functional at the same time.

The graphic design of the website may include: designing the website itself, designing logos and banners, creating flash animations.

Some of the most used softwares for this purpose are: photoshop, xara and corel draw.

Web development is the creation of the “non-design” part of the website

It includes: coding and the creation of internet applications among other things. Web developers are required to understand everything about web technologies, browsers and programming. The most used softwares for web development are dreamweaver and golive.

Some Important Tips:

* Use small pictures (up to 15kb per picture). Using big pictures may cause your site to load very slowly.
* Do not use too many graphics.
* Use graphics that feat the content of the website.
* Use normal layouts. The 3-column layout is probably the best option here.
* Don’t use too many fonts. Using more than two or three fonts will make your site look amateurish.
* Make sure that your website works on all the most popular browsers (firefox, internet explorer, chrome and safari)
* Don’t put too many ads on your website; if you do it, your readers will not stay too long.
* The ads should feat the graphics and the design of your website.