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Web Design That Works
This is a known statistic that you have only a few moments to engage a user who browses across your website. There are millions, aliens a websites are competing for a user’s attention, how are you able to get someone to spend time at your website, you have to get them engaged and interested. Most of the people who visit a particular website, if they don’t care for something, they are gone within seconds.
In order to have an engaging website, one that grabs the attention of the user, focuses on action words, color and placement designed to catch the eye; you must have a professionally designed website. If you are new to the online world, and you simply throw together a website, without having an end goal in mind, often you will do more harm than good.
How to Begin Excepting Sales and Generating Leads Online?
One of the most important ways to use your business or company website is by introducing new people to your business, also called generating leads. There are multiple website design teams, focus in particular areas of web design, take the time to research the person or company you’re considering, finding out if they have experience, and the talent to create a web design that does you or your company justice.
You’ll want to find a company that not only will create an online store, but one that can meet the look and feel of your brand, that focuses on monetization, and provide user interaction and ease of navigation. Your website should function quickly and easily, without undue complication. It does no good to have the fanciest graphics and latest animation, if they simply add confusion to your message. The final goal of an e-commerce website is to generate sales, make money, and convert the visitor. The reverse is also true; you do not want to confuse your user, instead of making them feel cared for and comfortable with your website. Done properly your website can be a 24/7/365 sales machine, allowing you to live the Internet dream, and make money while you sleep.
You’ll need to find a web designer who can provide content, logo design, and the necessary form interaction. Besides simply concentrating on design, and making sales, there are many other factors which are involved with creating a successful online business; your website must have quality content, which helps with the search engines, and allows the customer to feel they found what they are searching for.
Having a custom design and logo, will help you begin the journey of building a brand for you and/or your business. It is crucial to have a business management platform, designed into your website, that can handle your sales and keep track of clients.
In today’s world it’s not difficult to find a talented web design team. Make certain you are dealing with a company you feel comfortable with, has a good an established track record, and a staff that can quickly and easily answer any question you might have. When you accomplish this, you can be assured of having a web site you’ll be proud of well into the future.
Web Design All-in-One For Dummies
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All you need to know on web design in a thorough new edition If you want just one complete reference on web design, this book is it. The newest edition of this essential guide features 650+ pages on the latest tools and new web design standards, such as HTML5, CSS 3, and other core technologies and page-building strategies. Five minibooks provide deep coverage: essential pre-design considerations, how to establish the look of your site, building a site, how to test your site, and taking your si
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An awesome set of mobile web design principles for the mobile web by +Jenny
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jesus the voice….too squeeky
View CommentI thought this was an excellent edition of +Talks at Google
*Design principles for a better mobile web*
thanks to +Cedric Middlebourne for sharing this with me 🙂 #fb #tum #twt
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An awesome set of mobile web design principles for the mobile web by +Jenny
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Google’s excellent, yet quite obvious(?) design principles for mobile web
sites. Is your site already perfect?
#Google #mobilewebdesign #mobilewebsitedesigning #mobilewebsitedevelopment
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are you kidding?! all this talk, and your own Google+ site is HORRIBLE on
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forcing people to use the app!
Muito interessante esse video falando sobre Mobile Web Apps… Vale a pena
View Commentassistir ! #MobileWebApp
Its like learning Design principles from Mary Poppins! Love it
View CommentHere’s my presentation at Google I/O – it’s all about how to design for a
View Commentbetter experience on the mobile web: Google I/O 2014 – Design principles
for a better mobile web
Tipical google bullshit. Just becuase users dont have mind to order trough
View Commentdesktop cumputer, lets build a whole industry around mobile sites. Retards.
Here’s my presentation at Google I/O – it’s all about how to design for a
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for a better mobile web
Google I/O 2014 – Design principles for a better mobile web <-- Link Mobile best practices for better design +Google Developers
View CommentVery useful session from I/O 2014 on design principles for Mobile Web.
#googleio2014 #design #bestpractices
View Commentinteresting video about designing for mobile..
View Commentcc: +Dyah Ayu Susilowati +Mohamad Lutfi Sofan
Here’s my presentation at Google I/O – it’s all about how to design for a
View Commentbetter experience on the mobile web: Google I/O 2014 – Design principles
for a better mobile web
Here’s my presentation at Google I/O – it’s all about how to design for a
View Commentbetter experience on the mobile web: Google I/O 2014 – Design principles
for a better mobile web
Some interesting takeaways on web forms, but found the references to great
m. sites or mobile optimized sites and then references that Google supports
Responsive Web Design (RWD) a mixed message.
Sure mobile optimized sites should be better on mobile because then only
focus on one device type, but the fact that they split SEO and make share
problematic made referencing them with RWD a very poor narrative.
The talk would have been a lot clearer and better if it only talked about
View Commentthe benefits and pitfalls to avoid of RWD. By mixing in mobile optimized
sites the talk is less consistent.
Attention everyone: Mobile sites are garbage. Do not even create one. Just
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Great Reference Book For Designers,
All of this being said, I feel I should point out some of the things I thought the book was lacking. First of all it is a great introduction to web design for beginners, but it is not a step by step guide you can follow and have a site built by the end of the book. It is more of a list of tools and knowledge that you will gain to make your own creative site at a later time. Second, while the book is geared towards using Adobe Deamweaver and Photoshop to make your website, it does not teach you how to use the actual software. It occasionally gives tips on how to use certain functions of the Adobe programs, but not much more. Finally, I really wish the author would have tied all of her examples together at the end and shown a completed website’s coding and the physical appearance. It would have been nice to see how everything looks all put together, instead of little bits across the chapters.
If you are brand spanking new to the world of design, this book will be a valuable asset in the future of your work. It will not teach you all of the basic knowledge required to use the things learned in the book though. I would say this is really more for intermediate to advanced designers. As a current web/graphic design student I am pleased with this purchase and look forward to using it as a reference in the future. If you have no prior experience I would recommend buying additional books teaching you how to use the software of your choice (Adobe is the leader in the industry but there are other options as well).
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|Great Book – Very comprehensive & resourceful,
The early part of the book starts off with a discussion of the business aspects of web design & development side by side with the actual design aspects. On the business side you will see discussed such things like having a statement of purpose (IMO very important), doing informal marketing research, hiring free-lancers or copywriters, getting royalty-free vs. rights-managed stock images, publicity, visitors to your websites, shopping carts and so on. For all of this Jenkins provides good information and a host of links to sites where you can do follow-up if you want to. On the design side you will see discussed wireframes, sitemaps, image formats, color optimization, mockups, image slicing and so on.
As the book moves forwards, it develops more into a discussion of the basic code that you use to build a website, viz. HTML & CSS. Other issues such as responsive design and mobile are also discussed here.
The books ends with discussions of more technical coding aspects (to me anyway) such as JavaScript, jQuery, testing, code cleanup, roll-over effects, etc. and how to go about actually getting a website set up (DNS registration, ftp, etc.). Note one thing – while the new tags that come with HTML5 (e.g. <article>, <section>, <header>, etc.) are discussed, they are not discussed in depth.
I found the book to be very readable. It really is for dummies. The book is also very comprehensive. Jenkins really knows her stuff. She has her finger exhaustively in every aspect of the web design process. Added to all of that she gives a lot of good resources for follow up.
If I had to recommend any changes it would be the following:
(1) On the internet (even this morning on a youtube video) I have found people confusing wireframes for mockups and vice versa. They are not the same. They are quite different. While Jenkins distinguishes between the two, she discusses them in depth in separate chapters. Maybe they should be discussed side by side in the same chapter.
(2) I think at certain points, the pictures could have been bigger. For example the sitemap picture or the mockup. By nature people will tend to analyse these sorts of figures down to the writing on them.
(3) Perhaps more should have been said about Typography and HTML5 since it seems to have become such a big deal these days. Other than these minor nits the book is excellent.
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|Good book but too focused on Dreamweaver,
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