Understanding your visitors
As well as researching the competition, it's important to have a good understanding of who your website visitors, or customers, will be. ...
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31
July
Web Design
How will you compete?
With a website, the competition is only one click away. When people see your site in search engine listings, they'll see your direct competitors at the same time....
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31
July
The purpose of your website
It might be tempting to dive straight in and start designing your website, but, before you do anything, you need to stop and think. Why are you building a website in the first place? What do you want it to achieve?...
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31
July
The diversity of devices
One of the skills a web designer needs is the ability to put themselves into the shoes of the website visitor. Web designers have to think about what their visitors know, what they will expect the website to do, and how they will expect it...
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29
July
How devices affect design
Different devices have different capabilities, and this should inform the decisions you make while designing your website....
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29
July
Introducing web technologies
A website is made up of lots of different technologies and types of file. Part of the challenge of web design is learning how to use these different tools and technologies together, and how to pick the right ones for each aspect of your design....
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29
July
DIY or outsource?
Should you design your site yourself, or pay somebody else to do it for you? It depends on what you want to achieve with your website design project....
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29
July
How to set up your website
Now that you understand the design challenge, you're ready to take it on! Here is an outline of the process, although your own project might include extra steps, such as getting the CEO to approve the content ...
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29
July
Website accessibility
You might be thinking that the solution is to create a different website for all the different user groups you have. You're not the first to think of this. ...
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29
July