What are the key skills in designing a website? What are the traps? Here, the world's leading web design experts, let you share their secrets, tell you: The secret to make the site fun, what should be avoided, what tools should be used and their favorite and offensive sites.
01 Clear Content
If you want to be a website designer and want to build a website, you should first consider the content of the site, including the site features and what your users need. Your entire design should revolve around these aspects.
02 Capture User
If the user is not able to quickly enter your site, or the operation is not convenient, the site design is a failure. Don't let the user down and turn to your opponent's website.
03 Optimized content
content is the core. About two years ago, the corporate web site was like a brochure, and even worse, the site used a lot of pictures, it seems to take several centuries to download the end. Chanels website is successful in some aspects of design, but the content is too greedy, and it takes a long time to find what it wants, so it is not a successful website.
04 Fast Download
There's nothing more
than spending a lot of time downloading pages. As an experience, a standard Web page should be less than 60K and take 30 seconds to load through a 56K modem. Some designers say web pages should be loaded in 15 seconds.
05 Website Upgrade
always pay attention to the running condition of the website. Well-performing hosts may run slowly as the number of visitors increases. However, if you don't want to lose your visitors, be sure to plan your upgrade plan carefully.
06 adhere to basic principles
Even if you don't understand HTML, you can create a Web site that looks reasonable by simply buying a copyrighted, WYSIWYG web design tool, such as Adobe Pagemill or Microsoft FrontPage Express. However, at design time, these packages do not require HTML, but they slow down the Web site.
in order to successfully design a website, you must understand how HTML works. Most web designers suggest that Web novices should look for answers in HTML books and use Notepad to make Web pages.
07 Learning HTML
uses HTML to design Web sites to control the entire process of design. But if you're just a novice in web design, you should look for a package that allows you to modify HTML. HomeSite4 is a great web design tool. In the design process, HOMESITE4 can help you learn HTML. It also allows you to switch to WYSIWYG mode so that you can preview your site before sending it to the Web.
08 with strokes a website frame
Sage Cloud: pens are stronger than swords. Before using a computer, use the frame of a Web site to show the interrelationships of all pages. Plan how your users can browse your site at the least amount of time.
09 "Never Find a good solution on a computer."
10 Site Map
Many designers put their site map on the site, but this practice is more harmful than benefits. The vast majority of visitors who surf the web are looking for special information, and they have no interest in how your site works. If you think your site needs a map, it's likely that you need to improve your navigation and sidebar.
11 "Open your eyes and pay attention to all the things."
's observation of the least relevant things can get the best inspiration. Observe the structure and design of a site. Understand the key elements of the site structure to ensure that your design is around the site browsing. ”
12 Click Rule
ever heard of a 3-click rule? For small Web sites, there is no single message on your home page that needs to be clicked more than 3 times. For large web sites, use navigation and sidebar to improve operations.
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13 special fonts
Although you can use special fonts in your HTML, you can't predict what your visitors will see on their computers. A page that looks pretty good on your computer may look very bad on another platform. Some web designers like to use to define features, which allows you to use special fonts, but you still need some workarounds to avoid the fonts you choose from appearing on your visitors ' computers. Cascading style sheet CSS helps solve these problems, but only the latest version of the browser supports CSS.
14 "Use realistic and simple naming rules." ”
15 Check Typos
good spelling is an important skill in people's life. Unfortunately, many designers lack this skill. Make sure you spell it correctly, and pay special attention to typos that are usually easily misunderstood.
16 Avoid long text pages
There are a lot of text-only pages on a site that are tedious and waste the potential of the web. If you have a large number of text-based documents, you should place them in Adobe Acrobat format so that your visitors can read them offline.
17 do not use roll strips
people are disgusted with rolling strips. The trouble website is a typical poorly designed website. It is based on a floating architecture, in order to read all text viewers have to use the roll bar.
18 experts favorite Web design tools: 1.Adobe Photoshop 2.Macromedia Flash 3.Adobe Illustrator 4.Adobe imageread 5.Dreamweaver 6.Macromedia Fi Reworks
7. Allaire homesites 8.Microsoft Notepad 9. Macromedia Director 10. Lightwave 11. Macromedia Freehand
19 Website Introduction
you should have a very clear website introduction that tells visitors what your site can provide so that visitors can find what they want. Effective navigation bars and search tools make it easy to find useful information, which is important to visitors. Tell your visitors that what you are offering is exactly what they want.
20 "website once released, the advantages and disadvantages of website design are all published in the world."
There is no way you can learn more than your own mistakes, listening to other people's advice and feedback from users. ”
21 flashes make a person headache
by using logos can draw visitors ' attention to a particular part of your homepage, but it also gives your visitors a headache. If you want to make your visitors patronize your site again, use this method less.
22 Background Color
background colors can also create problems that can make Web pages difficult to read. You should stick with the white background and black text, and you should also stick with the generic font.
23 forward and Back buttons
should avoid forcing users to use the forward and backward buttons. Your design should enable users to quickly find what they want. Most good sites have the same navigation bar on every page, allowing viewers to access any part of the site from each page.
24 "stick to your convictions." Strict adherence to various rules. Avoid being taken for granted. Never stop learning. ”
25-click Register
don't easily consider placing a striking click Register on your site. You design a website to serve visitors, not to sell what you think is important. Most viewers think the counter is meaningless. If you show how popular your site is, you'd better provide a link to show access logs.
26 do not use frame
As with registers, frames are increasingly popular on Web pages. On most Web sites, there is a frame on the left side of the screen. But the designers immediately discovered that there were many problems in using the framework. When using frames, it is almost impossible to display the entire site without a 17-inch display. The framework also makes it possible to bookmark personal pages within a site. Perhaps more importantly, the search engine is often confused by the framework, which makes it impossible to list your site.
27 Remove Image
in the browser even if the image function is removed, but also to ensure that visitors to your site to achieve satisfactory results. For those visitors who use ISDN connections and turn off the image feature, they also get good web load performance. You can meet your visitors ' needs by providing additional links at the bottom of the page and using alternate text instead of images.
28 Reuse Image
Some websites miss the chance to use better techniques because they use a lot of images that are not duplicated. When creating a trademark, it is a good way to use the same image multiple times on a Web page, and it will be quick to reload once they are loaded.
29 Avoid using images that are too large
do not use images that span the entire screen. Prevent visitors from scrolling the screen to the right. The screen width of 75% is a good suggestion.
30 "Avoid the use of ostentatious skills." ”
