Archive for February, 2011

A small introduction to Web design

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Although Web design covers a large amount of trades and practices, if we stick to its original definition, it is so … well design drawing.

Drawing, yes, but applied to the very specific dimension of the web, with its own constraints, its codes, its modes of representation, all this at the service relationship that is sought to establish with visitors from backgrounds as diverse and varied, visitors will never know which one or the face or social profile.

Web design says that is a set of technical procedures is commonplace. Recall that the Web design is primarily an act of artistic creation is perhaps worthwhile to look for what can sometimes be found on the web!

However, if the web design must be considered an aesthetic approach, this is not the aesthetic itself which will take over during the web application development of a website project. We noted earlier that the goal was to establish a relationship with visitors and that is what it is: through a combination of graphic elements designed to provide a pleasant visual experience, visitors must be able to know as soon as possible if they are in the right place to find what they want.

Therefore the challenge of creating a website far beyond the mere aesthetic concern because a user who is seeking information, product or service will not take a moment to admire a site “pretty” on which it will not find what he hopes to find.

So, by extension and beyond the hardcore graphics, webdesign will also focus on how people perceive a web page to how useful the information will be distributed on this page, how which visitors can move within the site as smoothly as possible … and this is an enormous task!

For if you do not want in your neighborhood between ten different bakeries, web, internet are faced with an almost infinite choice of possibilities and one click without hesitation may be enough to send a website to oblivion!

Observe yourself how and why you are selected (e) or repelled (e) a site or another, take time to notice what attracts you or repels you, what makes you feel at the comfortable or not on that site or another – not to mention the very purpose of the site in question – and you already understand many things about web design.

You will understand if a particular site was well thought out or not, you understand (or not!) What was done to provoke such a reaction from you or another, to lead you to do such gesture or another and so more …

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