{"id":3439,"date":"2010-06-10T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2010-06-10T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:29:07","slug":"a-little-bit-about-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/3439\/a-little-bit-about-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit About Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people hear the term &#8220;web design&#8221; and get scared. You have to be an artist with years of good programming skill to make your own web site and have it come out nicely, don&#8217;t you? Well, this is not the case! In fact, making a good web site is not that hard at all once you know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Before you start working on the pretty part of the site, you need to work on your site&#8217;s content. After all, people are going to want to visit your page for more than just pretty pictures! Grab a sheet of paper and make a list of the main areas that you think others will want to visit. &#8220;About me&#8221;, &#8220;home&#8221;, and &#8220;links&#8221; are usually good pages to get your started.<\/p>\n<p>Once you know what is going to be on your site, it is time to organize it. Clump similar things together to create your main pages. For example, talking about your favorite book and your favorite band could both go under your &#8220;About me&#8221; page. Less is more as long as each main page is well-defined as people do not like having to wade through a lot of links to find what they want to know.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have planned out what is going on your web page and how it is organized, it is time to design your site&#8217;s layout. The three most important things are ease of use, visibility, and compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>Visibility means that your site is easy to read and pleasant to the eyes. Picking two contrasting complimentary colors for your web site&#8217;s theme is a good idea. The greater the difference in shades between the colors, the easier it will be to read. Generally light text on a dark background or dark text on a light background is the best. Do not use patterned backgrounds as they make it heard to read.<\/p>\n<p>Ease of use has to do with how easy it is for people to get things done on your site. All your main important pages should be on an easy to read menu that shows up on every single page. If you have a bunch of small subpages linked off your main pages (go easy on those, by the way!) adding a site map link to the footer of each page is a smart idea, too.<\/p>\n<p>The most important of the three concerns is compatibility. If they can not load your web page, they will not be able to enjoy it! Do not use things like flash or silverlight as they do not work on all browser or all operating systems and can crash slower computers. Also, check your web site across several browsers to make sure the code works well. Using W3C compliant code will generally help things out a lot.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, <a target='_blank' href=\"http:\/\/www.acromediainc.com\/\">web design<\/a> is not as scary as it sounds. With a little planning and care taken towards visibility, ease of use, and compatibility your web site will be just fine. Do not be afraid to try to go out there and make your site yourself, there is plenty of help out there if you get &#8220;stuck&#8221;. Have fun with your web page, the world is waiting to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>Does your website need of an overhaul? With over 10 years of web design and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acromediainc.com\/content-management\">content management<\/a> experience, this company is sure to help change the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acromediainc.com\/\">Toronto web design<\/a> of your website into something that would attract, keep, and convert people into customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people hear the term &#8220;web design&#8221; and get scared. You have to be an artist with years of good programming skill to make your own web site and have it come out nicely, don&#8217;t you? Well, this is not the case! In fact, making a good web site is not that hard at all once you know what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}