Website is an online advertising tool which is widely used for personal, informational, and business purposes which can be spread in a larger scale through the worldwide web. One of the ways to achieve its purpose is by having an effective web design.
What is a web design?
Web design is an internet application which utilizes both design and graphics to compliment contents on the website. The design of the website commonly coincide its purpose – personal, informational, business. A web design is supported by modern technology such as HTML, CSS, ASP, SSL, PHP, XML, etc… in order to function.
Things to consider in creating a good and effective web design
1. Purpose
First of all, in designing a website, a web designer/developer must consider as to why the website is to be created and for what purposes it may serve – for personal, informational, or business purposes.
2. Simplicity
Most of the legitimate websites offers a pleasant view for site visitors, and should coincide with its purpose. It must be presented in a user friendly way.
3. Consistency
Consistency throughout the site’s web pages is vital for an effective web design. Uniformity, pattern, and the color selection should be systemized.
4. Loading time
Loading time of a webpage must be considered so as not to consume much time in opening the webpages. Though you have a very significant web contents in the site, visitors tend to prefer another site because it’ll take some time before they can view the web pages. Thus, it is important to keep your site simply yet useful. Do not place insignificant contents in the website so that it’ll not overload which results delay in opening its contents.
5. Easy navigation
A website must be design is such a way that it will be easy for users to navigate around the site. It is also important that links and hyperlinks be placed to enable users to easily look up for the desired page or information.
6. Proper color usage
It is worth to note that a website also depends so much on visual appeal, colors are also used to highlight and identify important web contents, and thus the use of proper colors can have an effect on the overall appearance and presentation of a website.
Tips on how to use proper colors in web design
Color scheme
- To make a website visually appealing, proper colors should be used considering its purpose. It is also important to have uniformity or sequence in the usage of colors.
- Textual context should be in a white or any other light colored background to provide users a proper visualization of the text.
- Use of too many colors must be avoided since it can cause confusion to the users. The use of dull colors must also be avoided so that webpages will not look boring.
The choice of colors in a website can be a deciding factor in order to determine whether your website is effective, poor or clumsy. Thus, it is very important to design your website in the most effective way possible.
Loading time really matters… Coz users always want the webpage to be the fastest!
I agree, Chris. If you do have a fast website/blog, it will give a good user experience. Web hosting plays a major role in this.
I just have a little question!
What is the page speed of the theme u are using?
i am using Swift theme for http://www.sparkwiz.com It showed 90+ before I started using Google Web Fonts. Now its only 85.
thanks
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hey… if you are talking about google developers pagespeed insights, it is just 86. I am sure it is not good. I am planning to move to thesis very soon.
86 is better..Its good to invest in Thesis
All the best!
These are quite interesting tips and I love the way you described the each point. I think apart from loading time easy navigation is the second most important thing for a perfect web design because a proper navigation ease the switching from one page to another.
Consistency is something that you should observe not just in the content that you deliver, but also in the designs of each and every page you have. It’s also what you need to observe when you’re making content for your site. If you break the trend of consistency, there will be a chance that the website might be completely ignored.
Effective web designing require some creative concept and also effective techniques. It’s better to use THML5, CSS3 and improve knowledge about latest trends of website designing. Web designing is important part of any website which helps to increase visitors. Your given tips are really useful for any website designer. Thanks for sharing it.
I think usability is the most important thing for a website, as most of the users are novice users and want things to be performed with ease. In such a simple design and arranged navigation is the most desired feature of a website.