Thursday, August 29, 2013

Web Design - Best Practices

RESEARCH
5 Web Designers and their tips.

1. Pallasart Web Design http://www.pallasweb.com/tips.html
  • Reflect Your Brand Identity
  • Understand Your Website's Objectivity
  • Know Who Your Web Customers Are 
  • Focus On Converting Web Visitors to Customers
  • Brand and Message are the Most Important Elements of Any Website
  • Make Your Site Different. Stand Out in the Crowd
  • Set Your Design Standards as High as Possible
  • Be Fearless! Know What You Want. Believe In Yourself and Your Success
  • Be Big and Modern. Push the Limits
  • Always Choose the Very Best. Experience Make The Difference.
  • Two or three colors are enough
  • Two or three typeface are enough
  • Five to eight navigation items are enough
  • White space is not just for minimalists or art projects
  • People scroll...seriously, they scroll
  • Standards exist for a reason
  • Fast loading web site designs
  • Clear navigation
  • All resolutions
  • Browser compatibility
  • Readable and professional looking fonts 
  • Minimize the use of images
  • Use of white space
  • Check for browser links
  • Layout
  • Colors
  • Call to action
  • Use font size to indicate importance
  • Stock imagery
  • Keep the layout clean
  • Make the words legible
  • Easy navigation is the way forward
  • Added extras
  • The proof is in the testing
FAVORITE SITES
1. Pinterest https://pinterest.com/
  • Pinterest compares to my research because it has easy navigation, the layout is clean and organized,  it's different than most other sites. I like this site because everything is so easy to get to and really organized. 
  • Tumblr compares to my research because the layout is clean, the words are big and legible and it's fast to load. I like this site because of how the images are nice and big, the navigation buttons are on every page, which makes it easier to go to your dashboard or to log out.
FIND

Good Websites 




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