#web design 101

[jageun-ai]

So. My professor said the topic could be ANYTHING we wanted. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Probably not going to turn it in. I was just practicing using the templates inside Dreamweaver and then welp. I decided to have fun and make it ALL EXO.

You can't read it but I wrote out a brief intro of who they are and what they've done and about their fan out reach and success and made a member page explaining who everyone was.

[linchpinseo]

Maybe you’re thinking about having your first one made …or maybe, you just need a new, better one. In any case, you should know at least some of the basics about web design. …and no worries, it will only take 3 minutes. First of all, let’s face it: a Website is the core of your online marketing activities. If you look at all the marketing channels and techniques, what they actually do is bring visitors to your website. And the main purpose of a website is turning these visitors into customers – in marketing terms, this is called CONVERSION. A bad website will basically cause you to waste money on other marketing methods. Because you don’t need more VISITORS if can’t turn them into CUSTOMERS.      So the better your website is, the more visitors are CONVERTED into your customers…and it doesn’t really matter whether you sell consumer products online, provide local services or build houses. Many people in the industry call themselves web designers, but they really are just a bunch of geeks with some basic coding knowledge. Of course, without much planning, they will pretty quickly create a website for you – with lots of information, photos, contacts… But the question is: “Is that the way to turn the visitors into your customers? …Is that what you need?” And the answer is simple: “NO!” What you have to do is to look for someone SERIOUS about web design. Well, that’s where Linchpin SEO, a Chicago web design company come in! This is how WE make websites – by following this 7-phase web design process: Phase 1: ANALYSIS The first step is always about information gathering – identifying things like the website purpose, goals and target audience Phase 2: PLANNING A plan includes a definition of the site map, structure and technologies that we’re about to use. Phase 3: DESIGN Not only we focus on wireframe models and the visual style in this stage, but also on the usability of the user interface for the best possible user experience. Phase 4: CONTENT   A very important part of the process is choosing the right texts, photos or videos – all optimized not only for your visitors, but also for search engines. Phase 5: DEVELOPMENT Here we actually CREATE the website using the HyperText Markup Language and Cascading Style Sheets with some help from databases and other technologies as well. If needed, our websites can be made accessible to mobile devices too.    Phase 6: TESTING We test all the technical features, like code and scripts, compatibility with major browsers, but also we ask ourselves if the website really fulfills its purpose. Phase 7: DEPLOYMENT After we launch the site, our job is definitely not done yet! We always monitor what’s happening after the start, enabling us to fix any possible deficiencies. And if you want, we can also manage the future maintenance and updates for you. As you have just seen, web design is a very complex process, but we believe this is how websites should be done. And our customers agree! And if YOU share our passion for high quality websites, let’s get in touch! We’ll be happy to help you with what we do best!

Learn more at http://linchpinseo.com/web-design-company-chicago

[greggharrison-blog]

What is Web Design?

Seems like a pretty straight forward question. It's the process of creating webpages, right? Actually, there’s a bit more to it than that. Web design is creating content using hypertext or hypermedia that is delivered to an end user over the internet via web enabled software such as a web browser, rss reader or blogging client. It places emphasis on the aesthetic features of a web site.

Many new web designers are often overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge that they are expected to master. Terms like HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, jQuery, .NET, XML, FTP can be intimidating at first. I always hear, and I must admit that I asked the same thing when I first started, “I just want to design web pages, do I really need to know all this?” The answer, in my opinion, is a resounding yes. Think of it like building a house, if you only concentrate about the outside portion that people are going to see, chances are that house won’t hold up when it really counts. Your websites are the same. If you have no idea what’s going on behind the eye candy or how to structure them properly then you’re just setting yourself up for failure.

So do I really have to learn everything before I can start designing good websites? Well, no but I would suggest starting your journey by learning HTML and CSS as well as keeping current with web standards. This will ensure that your sites are always structured correctly.

[niniblack]

It was bitch to get it working right. Note to people designing tumblr layouts: never center align all your text. Never.