Sunday, February 21, 2016

4 Quick Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills

Designing your company website can be challenging propositin.You've got to juggle the expectations of many stakeholders , and you can often hit obstacles that prevent new ideas from emerging.

1)Design in shades of gray, then add color

If your web designer creates wireframes prior to visual designs,then you know the value of starting with shades of gray. Turn your wireframe into a grayscale visual design,add your photography, then carefully add color to design elements one at a time.
This will prevent an"overdesigned"website and help to place on just the items that  need it.

2)Bury those social media icons 

You did all  that work to get people to your website, and yet you're inviting them to leave? That's
what you're doing when you place social media icons in a promient location of your website, like in the header.Bury the icons in the footer.
If people are on your website,you want them to stay,learn and perhaps inquire about your services,not check out company picnic photos and bowling outings on Facebook.Social media should send people to your website,not vice versa.

3)Remove sidebars

The sidebar has been an especially popular web design trend for the last ten years, especially on blogs.Many companies are finding  that when they remove sidebars from the blogs,it encourages reader attention to the article and the call to action at the end.

4)Increase your font size

Typography is incredibly important in web design. Text is hard enough to read on a computer screen,so you have to make the important things stand out.
One way to do this is to increase your fint size, especially for important blocks of text. Consider increasing the size of your normal font,too.     
 
 

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