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Learn Web Page Design for Beginners
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Doing web page design can be overwhelming and confusing to most beginners. This article will hopefully put that aside and let you finally begin to learn web page design with ease.
First, do not get scared of all the techy stuff you will face. Most of this isn’t needed anyway until you decide to be more creative and want to mess with html, php, etc… but remember you do not have to know any of this to get started.
Understand where you are going with your website and how you want it layed out, where you want the navigation and wether you will be capturing email addresses or just selling a product.
When just starting out remember to keep things simple and easy for your visitors, always keep them in mind when writing and creating your website. The easier you make it for them the longer they might just stay on your page and sign up for your newsletter or purchase your product.
Keep your colors to simple black and white, you can have the background of the main page any color you wish, but again, don’t go overboard here.
Keep your images small and easy to load, the last thing a visitor wants is to have to wait at your website for it to load. The larger your images are, or even animation, the longer it will take to load. Also, remember to give your images alt tags and titles, this will help with search engines.
I couldn’t possible tell you all the steps you need to learn web page design in this article, but here are a few important things to keep in mind when you are starting out:
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Have an idea already of what the purpose of your site is
Have your product or newsletter ready to go
Get at least 3 to 4 articles or newsletters ready for follow up
Get all the tools you need before you start building
Do Not put alot of images or animation on your website
Keep the colors of your main area white background with black letters.
Keeping these tips in mind before you get started will defintely help with making things a lot easier for you to learn what you need to learn. Like html and driving traffic to your website.
I’d like to highly recommend you pick up a copy of ‘Introduction to the Basics of Web Design’ that will walk you through step by step on how to build a website of your own.
There is a lot to designing a web page, but don’t get overwhelmed with most of it. There isn’t that much to learn on web page design to get a website up and online.
I hope this article has helped and please do pick up a copy of the Introduction to the Basics to Web Design it is a must have.
7 Simple steps to Web Site Design
Posted by: | CommentsNo matter what Niche you are in, there are 7 simple steps to web site designing you should always follow. These 7 powerful yet simple steps will make building your web site better for you and your visitors.
Listed below are the 7 simple steps to follow:
Number One:
Your layout – your layout is very important. One thing to always do is have your main background white with black letter, this makes it easier for your visitors to read your page.
Number Two:
Ease of use – you also need to make sure that your web site is user friendly. Make sure that things are easy to find on your website. Keep things simple and always in the same place on each page.
Number Three:
The one key to making or breaking your website – CONTENT!! This is a must and you must do it properly. Also use original and unique content whenever possible. You can either write it yourself or hire someone to write it, but keep it short and to the point. Put together a newsletter or free report so visitors can opt into your site and learn more.
Number Four:
SEO – Search Engine Optimization – this is a must if you want to get as many targeted visitors as possible to your web site. Remember, thousands of visitors is not as good as a few hundred of targeted visitors. Using SEO with keyword research and implementing them is the appropriate places is a must.
Number Five:
Meta Tags – these are special tags on the source code of your website that tells the browser about your website. It helps you rank with search engines also. The tags are invisible to a normal visitor. It is important you know what your meta tags are and how to use them wisely.
Number Six:
Your Domain Name – Besides just building a website, things such as hosting and domain name play an important role in website creation. Choosing a domain name can mean the different between success or failure. Choosing the wrong domain name can definitely hurt you. For example; If your site was about dogs you would not want a domain name referring to golf.
Number Seven:
A Sitemap – having a sitemap on your website is always a good idea. This will help with search engines. It also makes finding things on your web site easier for your visitors and search engines. There are a few different ways to accomplish this, you can list all your pages on one page and name it sitemap, or you can put some articles relating to your website. Whichever way you choose, always put a sitemap on your web site.
Keeping these 7 steps in mind while designing your website you will be on your way to having a good web site designing technique. One of the things I’ve learned is to keep your web site simple and clean, don’t get carried away with putting a bunch of banners and flashy things up, it only distracts your visitors from doing what they came to your site to do, either buy from you or sign up for your service or product.
So keep it simple and clean!
For more information and detailed step by step tutorial pick up your copy of Introduction to the Basics of Web Design
What Does HTML Do and What Does it Mean?
Posted by: | CommentsThere are a lot people out there building thier own websites not understanding what it is they are actually doing.
It is important to have a general concept of what all that coding is and what it means. The coding used to build a website is known as HTML. This is how a browser reads a webpage and then interupts it into what people see in the window.
HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language.
Some Basic Things You Can Do with HTML
-change the fonts style, color, underline it, and Italic and bold it
-change the font color
-create a list
UL – for unordered list
OL – for ordered list
LI – for each line in the list
-create a table to organize your images or create a chart on your site
table – starts table
tr – starts table row
td – starts table cell
remember to end each cell and each row as well with a hash mark before the tag
-create a text link
text links are great
-add an image
img src
-create simple contact forms that include labels, radio buttons, and push buttons
-quote someone
blockquote – quoted text
-insert special characters and fractions into your text or blog post
these are just a small sampling;
&trade ™ trademark sign
&hearts ? heart
@ @ at sign
© © copyright
® ® registered trademark
¶ ¶ paragraph sign
¼ ¼ one-fourth
½ ½ one-half
¾ ¾ three-fourths
With HTML you can do a lot of different things with it within your website or even your blog. You can put images on your website and movies and video.
There is so much you can do with HTML to make your website more attractive and appealing to visitors.
But I must now caution you with this. Even tho many have found really cool things they can do with their websites using HTML coding, that it has made their sites way too wild and hard to find things.
Most people today will click away from these fancy sites, and instead be more willing to read a website that is simple and clean.
Keep this in mind while you are building your website, DO NOT get carried away with all the neat things you can do with HTML.
Keep it simple and clean.
To better understand HTML and how all this works, I highly recommend One Hour HTML
This little piece of software will save you hundreds of hours and money in learning HTML
HTML Editor Some Common Design Principles
Posted by: | CommentsA lot of people out there today are trying their best to design their own websites without knowing what they are doing. They aren’t using the right HTML Editor or coding things properly for success. There are many other things to know before just building a website, these are common principles most professional web designers know and use.
Your Website Color -
One thing a lot of people do not realize, that website colors make a big difference on how their visitors will react to their offers. There are some colors that will make people comfortable and at ease, while there are other colors that are difficult for people to read and even hurt their eyes and they have to strain to read the website.
Using these colors will make people click a way from your website before even reading one single word. Keep to using only two different main colors for your website and make sure the colors do not clash. The best put together websites, are the ones that use a simple white background with black text, this is the least likely to harm or strain someones’ eyes.
Your Website should stay in Balance -
Maintaining balance in your website can be done using colors that will complement each other. Some common colors people use is a dark color in the background and a lighter color in the foreground. Don’t make all your text different colors as this might look good to you, but it can make the text difficult for others to read. Always design your website with our visitors in mind.
Putting Lines in your Website -
Almost all websites use horizontal lines to separate different parts of the website. You can change the colors to these lines easily enough. Make sure that you do not over due with these lines, it can be confussing to your visitors. You can have the horizontal lines and even have vertical lines to separate things. You will see the vertical lines that will separate the navigation information that is nested on the left or right hand side, this makes it easier for visitors to understand what is the actual website and what the navigation is.
Making Text Stand Out More -
With most websites it is common to make part of your text bigger than the rest, as this is what you want your visitors to notice first. Don’t make this part too big or loud with color, it will be more annoying and visitors might just skip over it. Having things just a bit bigger and a different color (commonly red) a visitors eyes are drawn to this part and they will read this to get the idea of the text to follow.
One easy way to create this and all effects of a website is by using a good and reliabe HTML Editor. Be careful in choosing one as not all are the same. A lot of HTML Editors don’t always let you put your own pictures into the template and you can only use the templates they offer.
So when choosing an HTML editor, research what it does and does not do.
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