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The Work Factor

Doing It Yourself?

We couldn’t lie about it even if we wanted to, because building a website from scratch is hard work! And it’s even harder if you have no experience doing it. But if you’re willing to take the time to learn the required skills, be prepared to learn a lot. As the sole person responsible for every aspect of website design and maintenance, you’re going to need all the right tools and every bit of knowledge to use them.

Here’s a brief introduction to three essential tools you’ll need and want to use as a web designer:

Links

Text Links

In the past, it was rather easy to recognize hyperlinks on a webpage because they were traditionally blue and underlined. Today, hyperlinks can be any color, and they may not be underlined at all. With a little advanced scripting, today’s hyperlinks can move, jump, swirl around, and do a little bit of everything short of inserting a coin into a jukebox and selecting a song to dance to. While that’s pretty fancy, they can be hard to locate on a content-dense page.

Wondering what the magic ingredients are that make an effective and successful website design? Well, I should say that it would no longer be a secret. I am going to let the cat out of the bag.

It is one thing to design a highly fancy site and wait for your visitors. But, the smarter designer would opt for simple yet winning elements that keep visitors pouring in.

The best way to starting off with a good website designing plan is to chart out a site framework. This covers the complete navigation elements including tabs and widgets, levels of navigation, pages, frames, and colors. Most importantly, website designing should be done keeping in mind the content and images that would finally go in to making your site complete.

A website contains a wealth of information for a visitor. It is usually concentrated on a specific area of interest. A website is basically a digital book, with individual web pages being the pages of that book. Each web page has a bit of information on the subject. In total, all the web pages, provides comprehensive information.

The creation process of a web site is known as the web designing. A website is for providing information online. It has a large target audience at its disposal. HTML, XML and XHTML etc are used to encode text, graphic etc information in a web page. More complicated sites include animations, vector graphics and videos, sounds etc to attract visitors. To run these media, the websites require plug-in software. Such software includes Flash, Java, and Quick Time.

A web site is a compilation of information on a particular subject or topic. Thus designing a website is basically to arrange and create the web pages that make up the website. A website may be compared to a book, with the pages being the web pages. Each webpage has some information on the subject matter. All the web pages together provide the complete information package for the visitors of the website.

Audience-Oriented Business Goals

At the very least, history has determined that a professional website must strive to reach at least 5 specific goals:

1. To appeal to a global market
2. To operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
3. To instantaneously deliver its products and/or services
4. To automate its back-end operations
5. To work within a simple interface

Although these goals are rather broad in scope, their specifics are what give a website the complete focus and direction that it needs to be successful. Some of those specifics include setting up a secure ordering system, providing customer support, advertising, marketing, and hiring employees. However regardless of its level of detail, each goal of a business website must always address the needs of its target audience.

People Still Judge A Book by Its Cover

Trust me! People still judge by looking at your website design first before moving forward. Poor design will not benefits you. So, its necessary to get a neat and nice looking website. When we talk about websites, we’re not talking about simple web pages that look like the efforts of the local nerd or enthusiastic script-kiddy. Nor are we talking about the retro websites of the early nineties either. Serious businesses require serious websites.

Today’s New Necessity “The Website”

I bet most of you should know that for those of us who’ve spent any real time on the Internet, it’s hard to imagine a business without an online presence. It has become a nature where almost everywhere we look, we find a business URL plastered somewhere on a coffee mug, novelty pen, or refrigerator magnet, and there are several good reasons why.

There are two important things to remember when looking for a web designer or choosing a website design company:

First, it is important to go with a freelancer if you are looking for a small and simple site. You can probably get one done for $80 to $150. There are many freelancing companies on the web that you can tap into to find the designer for you but make sure they are genuine and you get what you paid for.

Creating a website is not so much a feat, if we compare it to the education of other technical skills. Most people tend to give up and pack their bags as soon as they hear the word “programming” and “technical”. They think it’s too much of a hassle to actually learn a whole computer “language”. HTML, the most basic computer language in building websites, is actually pretty simple to understand, as long as we have the interest in learning new things.

What is HTML?