The first impression is the most important
No matter if the main goal of your website is to provide informations, sell products or services, or to build an online community, the most important thing is to attract visitors.
Website design
As it is prooven in recent studies, people are evaluating a website with their visual impressions in the first second, and if they don't like it, they move to the other website not looking the content or trying to figure out how does your menu work. An attractive and simple-to-browse website has a lot bigger chances to keep the visitor, and also to remind him to come back again. That is why the wbebsite designing is so much important.
What does one quality website have:
It should be attractive and in the same time it should allow users to see and use the content.
Design should be a connection between users and informations on the page.
Users should be allowed to recognize each page as a part of one bigger whole.
It should allow users simple and intuitive using of web page navigation.
The maxims and principles of a web use and visible design should be maximum used.
Basic principles/rules of a good web designing:
Alignment of elements on the page - it is refered to alignment of upper, bottom, centered or sided parts of all graphic or textual elements on a page; the left border elements alignment, for example, titles, subtitles and texts on a page gives a better perception of element connection and more clear and readable visual structure ofthe page.
Element's balance - symetrical and asymetrical, every element on a page has it "weight". For example, title size, intensity of the font colour or position of graphic objescts on the page can create a certain balance.
Element unity - a diiferent elements of a composition are in mutual interaction.
Contrast - it is putting different graphic or textual elements that is used to accent the web page content. For expample, serif fonts as Times New Roman or Garamound for titles and sans serif fonts - Arial or Verdana for the text content.
Element's consistency - gives a perception of elements belongingto a web page and of visual stability and identity of a whole web center. For example, a menu should always be placed on the same place on every page (e.g. on the top of the page).
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