Webpage Design
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The home page
So what do you want on this most important first screen? You naturally want the title of your website and you want to let visitors know what the content is as briefly as possible. Use short phrases and short paragraphs. You also want to provide links to the main sections of your site (making sure to include text links).
The home page of your website is its front door. Most search engines will index your home page (i.e. index page) before they will index the other pages in your website so it is critically important that you give a great deal of thought to its layout and design.
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Setting a theme for your website
In addition to designing a home page, you are setting the tone/theme of your site with this first page. Here you are presenting what visitors can expect to see carried out on every page within the site. This is should also be true of the website navigation system you use.
Using a theme for your website provides a convenient way of placing certain elements, in the same place, on each page. Navbars, headers, footers, etc. should all appear in the same place on each page for the convenience of your visitors. At a glance they can find what they are looking for, this will enhance the usability of your website.
 Website Navigation and Theme
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Organize the pages of your website
You want to use contrast to guide the eye around your pages. And, to be effective, the contrast must be bold. Also, any good web page design must have a focal point. Something on the page must be the dominant eye catcher. If everything has the same level of importance, then nothing is important.
Group items and information that belong together using white space so that the eye knows they are together. Also, your webpage layout should be consistent throughout the website. Each page should present the same appearance and have related elements in the same place on each page.
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Alignment
The alignment of elements on the page - both vertically and horizontally - is also very important. Choose one alignment and stick with it. That doesn't mean you have to align everything along the same line; it means things should be aligned the same on the page. The following examples will help to explain what I mean. |
 Poor Alignment: Unjustified text and graphics example Good Alignment: Justified text and graphics example
Special Website Design Considerations: Special website layout and design considerations
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Website templates
The perfect webpage is one that blends into and compliments the overall design of your website. Each page represents a part of your total website and it should reflect the theme, navigation and focus of all the other pages. |
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A good website layout should be themed and provide a clean navigation system. There are a multitude of templates available on the internet, some are free and others are yours for a fee. Whatever you do be sure to decide on the template that suits your website theme the best.
Once you have launched your site using a template stick to the same design throughout the website.
How to use Website Templates
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Designing Web Pages
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Designing Web Pages
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Designing good webpages begins with good webpage layout. So what do you want on this most important first screen? |
Designing your Homepage
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Believe me, you want your visitors to stay as long as possible. This is the only way your site is going to succeed. Your site must be interesting, persuading, and easy to navigate. |
Professional Webpage Layout
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Examining the methods of professional webpage layout. The individual pages in your website must have a layout that allows the visitor to find out as much as possible about your webpage at a glance. |
All About Design Principles and Elements
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Basic website design elements to consider. A truly shocking number of web designers are unfamiliar with the basic principles and elements of design. |
Importance of CSS in Web Development
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CSS style sheets have made it easier to handle web pages during web development. CSS or Cascading Style Sheets as the name suggests is a style sheet that allows you to easily link to other documents in your website. |
Critical Web Design Rules
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Content is King! If you want a website to generate back-links and have quality content the search engines love, be sure to make it readable by both people and search engines. |
An Easy Way to Choose Attractive Color Combinations
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Lots of people struggle to come up with attractive color combinations when designing logos, banners or web sites. So, here's an easy technique that only takes a few minutes. |
Creating a Basic Web Design Template
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A "template" is simply a design format which you can apply to all (or most) of the pages in your web site. |
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