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Good Web Design Could Still Be Available To Beginners Like You

By: Mahoney Home | Internet-and-Business | Web-Design


Web sites have been in existence for more than a decade and the idea of web design has changed considerably during the years. In the nineties, you could find web pages with web design as simple as text for its entire body with a graphic or two strewn here and there. Such web design was perfectly acceptable then and frequently relied only on tools as simple as notepad to create. Nowadays, most web sites require considerably more advanced web design, often calling for entire teams of web content creators to make them. If you're new to the field of creating web sites, how do you learn to make web sites that you would truly like to visit?

First of all, you need to visit many web sites and be critical of them. Ask yourself what elements of their web design impressed you? What elements of their web design did not seem too functional or were just plain ugly? By knowing what it is that you want, you could be taking the first steps to becoming a really good web master.

Next, you just need to learn the basics. Much of web design coding during the nineties for these web sites still function as the basics for these new more colorful web sites. Yes, web design still relies on good old HTML. Visit any tutorial online and after an afternoon, you're sure to be acquainted enough with HTML to make your own site, albeit a very simple one.

Now, with this knowledge of the basics of HTML, you can revisit your favorite web sites and see how it is that they were created. Use the browser's ability to see the coding for these sites and you'll find out what web design tricks they employed. Did the site use fancy moving graphics that responded to your mouse's clicks? Then it might just have used flash in its web design. Did it have music embedded into it as mp3? Then find out just how the web master did this using your browser's view layout feature. Any of the best web sites' web design tools are always just there, ready for you to see how they were put to use.

After this, the next step would be to emulate the sites' features. It's not too difficult as you can just copy anything using copy and paste. Place these codes into the site you're trying to create. Don't be greedy and copy every feature from every site all at once. You need to start small with one feature at a time. That way, if a feature does not work, you'll know just where the problem is.

It's not all about using the web design features, though. You should only use web features that are useful for your sites' purposes. Are you building a site only for yourself? Then try to have web design that expresses your self. Are you building a site for your families' company? Then maybe you could keep it simple and straight to the point, just giving the company's details. After uploading your web site, give yourself a couple of days rest and look back at it. That way, you'll have a fresh take on your own web design; good luck.



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John Mahoney is a freelance author who writes about various technology related subjects including web design. For more information about John visit his website: www.techstore.ie


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