The appearance of a website is no less important than its content. So you should spare neither the time nor the money for developing a professional, quality website design. This online resource is the face of the company, and if it is done badly it will not only fail to attract clients but may scare them away.
What do you need for a website design?
First, a competent specialist. Do not trust the development and creation of a website design to the first web designer you come across. Consider several contractors: both IT companies and freelancers. Pay special attention to their portfolio, read the reviews of other clients. That is advice for the client, and now advice for the contractor - learn and constantly deepen your knowledge of design, follow the new trends. Second, think through carefully what exactly should be on the website, down to the details: what the colour will be, what the icons and the animation will be, how the logo will look.
back to contents ↑How do you come up with a website design?
In most cases this is only within the power of a specialist who knows Photoshop and other graphic editors. To build a website a sense of style is no less important, as well as creative thinking and the ability to generate ideas quickly. To get the answer to the question «How do I come up with a website design?» it is enough to read the next few paragraphs of this article.
Before creating the main idea for a future website you should clearly define its topic, its target audience and other details that at first glance are not the most important. But already at the stage of building the resource these details will make the task much easier. Second, you need to think through the colour decisions of the web resource carefully. It is not recommended to use colours that are too bright or eye-catching designs for the background. It is better to prefer calm light or dark colours and to pick a slightly brighter colour for the text. That way the text on the page will «play» on contrast. Be sure to show on paper or in an editor the scheme of how all the details will be placed on the page: the header, the menu, the logo, the sections. To make sure everything looks exactly as you intended and as the client wants to see it, show this scheme as a sketch, for example in the same Photoshop.
back to contents ↑How do you make a website design?
Developing a website design, like any other process in building a web resource, has several stages:
- We look through other resources on a similar topic. There is no need to copy everything down to the images. But you can pick up interesting ideas.
- Make a mockup of the future site on a sheet of paper. Place all the sections, the menu, the header and the logo schematically. This will help you see how it all looks together and change or fix something.
- Lay everything out in a graphic editor. Most often web designers use Photoshop to create an online resource.
- Launch the site in test mode and then fix all the errors.
Building a website is quite a labour-intensive process. The markup alone takes from several days to several weeks. And all the preceding stages are no less time-consuming.
