15 Tips for Web Design

It is almost certain that once we have faced in designing a website. Our profession may not have anything to do with graphic design , but the disadvantage of facing a blank page with one 's own creation , at least, must for any that we engage on the Web How do we make our website Or our website, attractive , salesman , quick to download , attractive , and more attractive ? Well, basically , it's all about taste , try, try: err, be curious and take the network to see examples of good web design and try to follow these examples is the best thing you can do. There is a problem, it requires time and our message must be finished tomorrow !

What then ? So here we have a series of tips, tricks, and basic "laws" we can be very useful , whether as an intrepid graphic designer , or harassed by the circumstances.

Here we go : 1 - Do it all simpler. The power of good design is in its simplicity. Define the essence.

1.2- Do it all simple: Part 2. When final design seems too simple for the amount of time devoted , VOILA ! His work is now ready.

2 - Quit your inner world: contact . Learn to communicate and collaborate with all members of the professions key web programming, marketing , commercial.

3 - less glamorous and more order. Is not seduced by the way at the expense of content. web design content committed to contributing to a greater extent than one that gives precedence forms.

4 - Design for connections via modem. The most important aesthetic consideration to keep in mind is SPEED TRANSMISSION . If your work takes too long to download , leave everything aside and go back to paper and pencil.

5 - Texts . Bored? When you touch diagramming texts, FIRST READ . Think about how someone with less interest than his own, could take a look. Another thing that is helpful is the width of the texts. Often there are websites with text running from top to bottom of the page. ¿ How do you read that? ? Best concerned that their texts are kept to a width of 400 pixels, or at least a third of your screen.

6 - More color and graphics, fewer images and effects. The line art, vector shapes and color plane takes wonders with the web. To be clear , if their designs use more Photoshop Freehand , is confident that your page will load much faster.

7 - Graphics and text: no! Never, ever , insert text into a graphic. The text is text. The graphics are graphics. Not to be confused .

8 - Attract . With fluctuations in the web links to its status as a "slow" and other encumbrances , you have 3 seconds to convince a user to not use the BACK button on your browser. THREE SECONDS. Then put all your efforts so that what you want to display on a web page appears immediately, and interesting ways.

9 - Draw - simplify - go to what matters. You have 30 seconds to load a whole page in the browser. Perhaps least 15 sec.

10 - Focus on what matters . Users are not interested at all like work and navigate within your site, just arrived there for the content. Give it a quick and simple.

11 - Learn , learn. Keep abreast of new technologies. The web never stands still, so spend their free time to something that is new. It's past time that the big fish ate the smaller , now is the faster you eat the slower .

12 - Define your problem. The design is about solving problems, facing a question of communicating with a goal. Define what is yours and you have half the problem solved.

13 - Learn the principles of navigation.
a- People hate to wait
b- People hate to scroll
c- People hate reading
d- People prefer to scroll than to wait
e- People would rather wait to read
f- People are not necessarily rational or consistent , but sometimes .

14 - Look for inspiration . Talk to people who are outside its scope . The architects, for example, can give a completely new web design , maybe they can change their way of imagining is conceptualized as a site, transforming web pages into " web sites "

15 - Listen to music . If , when the music that accompanies their work becomes more pleasant and bearable . He even generate more inspiration. 

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