What is web designing?

•September 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Website designing or development has two facets — creative and technical. The creative aspect involves visualizing and conceptualizing. While, technical aspect takes care of converting the designed layout into HTML, giving it effects with Java Scripting and using AJAX. The initial step of creating a website starts with the web-designer surfing the Internet to take ideas from other websites or using his own creativity, creates a design template. After the client approves the design, the technical phase of the site starts.

The pay
For web practitioners who do not have a degree, the average starting pay is around Rs 10,000 to 15,000 per month. However, for graduate web designers, the pay is about Rs 2.5 lakh per annum. For someone at the mid-management level, it is about Rs 9 lakh per year, which also same for a graphic designer with a team of three to five people and a Master’s degree. For someone at senior level, it comes to around Rs 18 lakh a year as a creative director. For a graphic head, at GM/VP level, it can reach to about Rs 27 lakh a year. With 12 years’ experience, a person can lead a team of more than 10 people.

Required skills
Imagination, imagination and loads of imagination. Along with willingness to experiment, learn and grow. Aptitude to understand a brief clearly and thinking of original and creative solutions.
Analytical thinking is also important. Team spirit is an important aspect as designing is not a solitary activity, it involves a number of tools and professionals.

How do I go about it?
After HSC i.e class XII, one can join a web designing course conducted at many institutes. To become a designer, one needs to learn all about the web, HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language), PhotoShop, Dreamweaver and Flash, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet, for managing content formatting) and at least one programming language such as ASP, ASP.NET or PHP.

Web Designers India

•September 8, 2009 • 1 Comment

The web is about to enter a new decade – Web 3.0 – which is currently making waves. There is always an engineering focus on either ‘the front end’ or ‘back end’ of the Web , and this happens decade after decade. Web 1.0 was a back-end decade, Web 2.0 was front end, with a heavy focus on users and usability, clean-looking sites, and people making connections with one another. In Web 3.0, the emphasis will revert to the back end, with a renewal of the web’s key index – the essential data that is catalogued by search engines like Google. That in turn will make way for Web 4.0, another ‘front-end decade’, only with more advanced programs than the likes of Facebook. A prime example of a Web 3.0 technology is ‘natural-language search’, which refers to the ability of search engines to answer full questions such as ‘Which US Presidents died of disease?’ In some cases, the sites that appear in the results do not reference the original search terms, reflecting the fact that the web knows, for instance, that Reagan was a US President, and that Alzheimer’s is a disease. “Our engine reads every page of the web sentence by sentence and returns results by drawing on a general knowledge of language and what specific concepts in the world mean, and their relationship with one another,” said Barney Pell, chief executive of Powerset, which is developing natural-language technology. The firm, based at the prestigious Palo Alto Research Centre, in California, is sometimes talked about as a Google-killer, should its offering – which is not yet widely available – become popular. It’s not just search that will be overhauled in the web of the future, however. One of the recurrent themes in the presentations at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was ‘open platforms’, the idea that a website or device, like a mobile phone, should be able to accommodate whichever features or applications its user wants. Think of the iPhone as a folder into which an owner could ‘drag and drop’ any application – a weather forecaster, an e-mail service – without Apple having to approve such an action. Some of the world’s largest technology companies – Nokia, Apple and MySpace – all made announcements embracing the idea of open platforms, suggesting that the web will become a place where much more mixing and matching of different services will be permitted. Alongside this will come more mature virtual worlds, or what Silicon Valley’s faithful – perhaps to get away from connotations of the computer game – have started referring to as ‘immersive environments’

Web Designers India

•June 12, 2009 • 1 Comment

The first and foremost step of creating a website is to create a good, practical design. The design should be creative and useful, unique and realistic, and above all, should be at par with the brand and reflect the ideology of the business. As Web Designers India, our aim is to provide all our clients with good designs that will represent their business and company on the web.

Everyone is getting up to the benefits of having a good website that ensures their web presence and in turn generate business. Thus, web designing in India is a big thing and the demand for creative designs is more than ever.

Web Designers india

•May 11, 2009 • 1 Comment

The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago.
Dr. Jakob Nielson, the usability guru has made a remark stating that 80% of
website principles are still an issue
today. 10% of the issues have gone
because the users have changed and the other 10% because the technology has changed.
Also, citing examples of sites like Google, ebay, Amazon, he said this websites have been popular owing to their usable and creative design. He stresses on the point that the usability aspect of a website’s design is very important nowdays, in order to make the website a hit.
http://www.elivepages.com/

Tips and tricks – Good web design

•February 26, 2009 • 1 Comment

We list here some essential tips that are important towards a good website design:

Typography of content should be appropriate which means that font style, size & spacing between sentences is proper and textual material on your site is easily readable.

Resize images to reduce the page load time & also make sure that the important sections of the page load quickly.

Content is important which helps sell your product. Make your content user friendly by writing short sentences/paragraphs which makes easy reading.

Clear navigation section is one of the most important parts of your web design layout. The navigational links should be easily readable and to ensure that they do make easy reading keep the font size, text size & also color different from rest part of the content.

Test the website to check if all the links are clickable & the desired page open.

Ideal web design practices

•February 25, 2009 • 1 Comment

Some basic points are to be kept in mind so that visitor after coming to the site does not leave and goes through the different sections of the site.

  1. Good site design
  2. Judicious use of meta tags
  3. Easy navigation
  4. Create table less design structure
  5. Instead of inline use external style sheet
  6. Special texts for formatting such as Bold & Heading to be used wisely

Many designing companies have good web designers India as well as designers catering specific needs for other countries too. A company with a portfolio of varied web designing projects would be the best option to select for your web designing assignment.

Correct process of web site designing

•February 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Correct process of web site designing

a. Web Designing – First Step

  1. Beginning Step – Trace the purpose of designing the site
  2. Who will be the target audience
  3. What the site will offer to its target audience
  4. Who are the competing websites
  5. In the specific industry, how the market is structured

b. Decide upon the feel & look of the site.

c. Developing pages & selecting underlining technology

d. Proper project management & ensuring quality of work.

e. Final step is to check if the site design is as per the structure that was planned at the beginning.

Note:

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User-friendly website design

•February 17, 2009 • 1 Comment

At the time of designing a website the designer should always keep in mind the following important points:

1. Set layout & theme

2. Take note of what the website conveys

3. Plan for design of the website

4. Navigation & sitemap

5. Use of text & images

6. Download time and page size