Friday, April 12, 2013

How to Design Beautiful Websites

By Lori Buenavista


Back when the web initially became popular, there were many unattractive web pages: sites with glancing, clashing, fluorescent colors, sites with irritating flash animation pop-ups, internet sites with hokey backgrounds featuring flowers or smiley faces. Fortunately, web page design has improved enormously in the last ten years. If you adhere to some basic recommendations, it's easy to design a beautiful internet site.

Color

Color is easily the most apparent characteristic of your site. Guests quickly form a viewpoint of your internet site and your company in accordance with the colors you've used. While you don't need a comprehensive art education, it's wise to understand the fundamentals about color rule.

Color wheels have been in existence since Sir Isaac Newton developed the first one in 1666. There are many versions, but all are structured in the same manner, with the same color families next to each other.

Artists don't just randomly pick their best colors and throw them together; some colors look best with others. The key of choosing the correct colors is called, "color harmony." There are many strategies to obtain color harmony.

Pick analogous colors. Pick any 3 colors which are alongside each other on a 12-part color wheel. For instance, green, yellow-green and yellow are analogous, so all three work efficiently together. You'll choose one to be the dominant color in the style and design.

Pick contrasting colors. Two colors that are exactly opposite from each other on a color wheel are called, "complementary." For instance, blue and orange (in varying shades) complement one another nicely.

Select colors from nature. Nature has an fantastic color sense. Here you can observe how red and numerous shades of green work together. Besides color harmony, make certain that your web page features colors which are easy on the visitor's eyes. A hot pink backdrop with white text will be impossible to read, and it looks tacky.

Font. When selecting a font for your internet site, pick an element that is easy to see. Sans-serif fonts are often best. Cursive fonts could work for large text, but they are extremely hard to read in more compact body text. Should you don't want your website to look like it was designed in 1997, avoid cutesy print styles just like comic sans.

Layout. Beautiful internet sites have a simple, easy to follow layout with a lot of white space. You don't need to crowd every page on your site with textual content and images-the information will 'pop' when it has room to breathe.

Arrange your online site so that text and images balance one another; don't have all of your elements of design on the left side of the page, as an example. Look at each web site of your site as if it were a stand-alone poster. Will it be visually desirable?

Navigation. Lovely web design contains effective navigation. Links to other pages should be easy to find. Use standard layout-either across the top, running down the left-hand side of the page, or both-for navigation. Visitors shouldn't need to search an entire page to find what they're looking for.




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