Web Design Basics

May 9th, 2008No Comments

This section features tutorials on all the  basic skills for web site design and designing good usable web pages, through insight into the core thinking that supports the design of effective and usable web sites.

Using web sites should be easy and pleasant, just like a great experience in a shop, hotel, or library. I believe that the all Web sites can be made lovable – easy, rewarding and pleasurable to use.

To learn more, please make sure you’ve read “Save the Pixel – The Art of Simple Web Design”, a complete handbook to best web design practice and graphic design techniques, from planning to layout to spacing to copywriting.

Most web sites suck, even ones created by experienced and highly-paid web designers. They’re either hard to navigate, confusing, cryptic, badly organised, badly written, stupid, obscure, rude, over-designed, under-designed, or simply don’t give us what we want.

Too often we are left feeling either stupid, let down, frustrated, or angry. This situation is not okay any more.

These articles look at the web browsing experience (See: How people use web pages, People are impatient; No-one looks at the screen; Scanning, Other online factors).

Web design is a complex discipline, and there is a tension between designing for beauty and designing for function. However, you can make web sites both pleasurable and functional, appealing and usable. In fact, this should be your goal as a designer. (See: Web sites and buildings, Sphere of Design; Using your Ink)

Kompufix Web Design offers affordable custom website design. Our full service website design company only hires certified website designers. Please contact us today for your next web site design project.

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