I’ve decided to use a new site design until I have time to re-design my own. Thank you to Michael Tyson for supplying such an awesome design free of charge. I have to say I especially enjoy the photo border around all the photos.
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1. Do your homework – I can’t stress how important this is. There are plenty of websites out there dedicated to displaying the best websites for design on the net. Looking at different sites that are designed beautifully can help you out in designing yours the same way. Now I’m not saying to copy their sites directly or at all for that matter, but you should at least take into consideration the layout, graphic work and typography that went into creating that beautiful site.
2. Learn Photoshop – I can’t tell you how much of a difference this makes. Yes you can design a spectacular website in just CSS and HTML, but sometimes it’s just easier to do it as a picture in photoshop. This being said, doing up a photoshop mockup first can be extremely helpful to get the layout down before any coding actually starts getting done.
3. Keep up with up and coming trends in web design. Websites like http://www.webdesignerwall.com/ have entire sections dedicated to keeping up with up and coming web design trends. Using these trends can help your website get all that it deserves.
4. Javascript isn’t a language from the past, it’s a language of the future(at least for now) so embrace it in your websites. Fancy sliders, menu’s and picture effects add pizzazz to your site and will increase user traffic. Using frameworks like JQuery or Prototype can give your site the ‘pop’ it needs.
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