Archive for the 'Creating a Site' Category

The Open Design Community: Free CSS Templates!

December 30th, 2008

If you’re most people out there who don’t know CSS and have no time, or care, on how to do one for your blog, then the next action for you woulfd be to find a place where you can download one for free. Thank goodness that there are a lot of sites out there that [...]

Your role as a Web Designer

August 22nd, 2008

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Website design is of course not giving the visitors with another plain piece of text. Go as per the old saying “the beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Here the beholder is the visitor of the website that you are going to design. So as a skilled website designer you should [...]

Online Shopping Portals Design (Part 3)

April 16th, 2008

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Until today, people are still scared of giving their personal information on the web. The threat of fraud still exists in online shopping. Therefore, it is important that the users coming into your site feels free and secure to bring out their personal details. You have to make sure that you give [...]

Online Shopping Portals Design (Part 2)

April 14th, 2008

bloggersgallerio.blogspot.com
So before you begin the task of designing your shopping portal, you have to make sure that you concentrate on the following feature: Trust. This is the buzzword of online marketing today. Since you will not be visible to your customers, it is important that they trust your services. Therefore, in your [...]

Online Shopping Portals Design (Part 1)

April 10th, 2008

www.boomeranggroup.co.uk
Can you imagine yourself in a shopping mall, where the showrooms are dusty and shabby, and the sales executives are nasty and uninterested in welcoming you in? Do you feel like you want to shop in that place? Of course your answer is no. The same applies to an online shopping portal. [...]

Low Bandwidth Design

April 8th, 2008

www.tidydesign.com
Plan your website so that they can be accessible at a variety of connection speeds. If your pages download slowly because they contain complicated animations or large and detailed graphics, your users will leave before they ever see your content. Yes, there will be a time when a majority of your users will [...]

Craft the Website Feel and Look

April 4th, 2008

www.ashfieldtrainingsolutions.co.uk
The feel and look of a website where the user must navigate often is called the interface. When users explore the web design of your site, they create their own paths through your information, they dent on the freedom of your design, they view graphics, make association with links, and read text. The [...]

Design a Website

April 2nd, 2008

www.webtastic.net.au
When you are designing a website, remember that the destination is not a printed page, but a computer. The language is not linear text, but hypertext. Your job as a web page designer is to create web pages specifically for the computer screen. Because of this, you must consider the colors, fonts, [...]