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Posted by admin on 7th January 2010
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5 Trends That Rock In 2010

With the New Year closing in, its time to do away with the old and get set for the new year. The web design world was ruled by a variety of trends in the past year, and there are many more that are paving way in the coming years.

Here are some popular trends that will make in big in 2010. though you don’t need to follow them blindly and revamp your website design based on them (unless of course you plan to redesign your website), it is important that you keep them in mind and introduce subtle changes as and how required:

Huge Headers & Logos

This is one of the most talked about trends and many experts predict it to be hugely popular in the coming season. Size definitely does matter! Headers and logos are what catches the eyes of the visitors immediately after they arrive on your website. And huge headers and logos make a definitive impression on your audiences. In fact, you can also have a full sized header graphic on your web page, that acts like a banner on which you can load your content. Instead of clicking on anything, visitors would simply have to scroll down.

Magazine Layout

As web designers become more experimental, they are trying out new and innovative layouts for the web. Magazine layouts give a feel of entertainment and are great to display short articles attractively! It enhances the look and feel of the website and encourage users to spend more time there. Add to it glossy pictures and images too!

Huge Images

In line with the magazine style layout, huge images and photographs are a hot trend. It creates an visual impact that visitors are sure to remember for a long time. They are what attract visitors to the website and provide them with great visual experience. In fact, they create a feeling that there is not much text to be read and therefore make visitors stay longer and ensure that

Hand Drawn Designs

If you lament about not knowing how to “draw,” stop right there. Hand drawn designs do not require professional artists to create aesthetic pieces of art. Rather, hand drawn designs aim to make a personal connection with your users and make them feel good. Consider saving all those rough drafts that you make before you begin design a website. It can give you great insight about how you can go about doing it.

Typography

Typography will reinvent itself with a fresh new approach in 2010. Web designers are often reluctant to try new and different fonts because of their impact on usability. Therefore, one has to be very careful while using typography on web designs. The latest version of Firefox 3.6 supports a range of WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts. So this will give designers more options to choose from.

Posted by admin on 7th January 2010
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Beginners Tips for Creating Website Design

Designing a website doesn’t have to be all that difficult, but it does take some work and a lot of attention to detail in order to design a good one.

There are a number of resources online that can help you with beginning page design, as well as programs that can be used in order to design a WYSYWYG (what you see is what you get) website. The following tips for creating your first web site might also be useful.

First of all, you need to determine the purpose of your website and what sort of content will best suit your purpose. If your new site is strictly for personal use, and you don’t mind having ads on the page, you can get a free Internet page and use the software they provide in order to create a basic website that will suit your purposes.

However, if you wish to use your website for a business or to make money online, you will want to do an ownership search, get your own domain name and sign up with a web hosting company, which should give you more flexibility and a more professional look.

Planning Stage

You will want to make sure to follow the basic beginning website design principles. This means that you want to have an uncluttered page that is easy to read.

Usually it is best to have a light colored background with dark colored text, and to make your links easily visible by using a different color and underlining them. Blue is a common option for this.

You will want some sort of navigation bar either on the top of the page or the side, or both, so that people can easily switch between the pages of your site to get to the information that they need.

Regardless of the type of website you are trying to design, you should keep your text blocks short. You don’t want to have huge paragraphs, as this makes it more difficult to read and many people will lose interest quickly.

Bullet points, tables, and lists can help to break up the text, as can photos. Try to keep the first page a general overview so you don’t bog people down with too much information. They can click on the links to get more information on the topics that they are interested in.

You want to keep your visitors on your page and entice them to move on to other pages within your site. The design and flow of your pages can really help with this. Take your time, plan and research to make your new domain the best it can be.