Website Building

Once you are ready with the basic website plan, website structure and content for the website, it is time to actualize what you have imagined and made on the paper.

It depends on you if you want to do this step on your own or want to delegate the same to a web developer. If you want to give the development and designing part to some company or a freelancer, then there are various websites offering this service, you can search on any search engines as freelance web designer or web designing company.

If you want to design your website on your own then you need to be equipped with some tools and knowledge about few programming language, the most important is HTML.

static web page is made up of html tags. It may contain graphics, multimedia items, and scripts, which add the dynamicity to the HTML page. As you are reading this page few questions must be popping in your mind, like..What is HTML and HTML tags? Do I need to know and learn this mark up language for website building as there are many WYSIWYG HTML editors available in the market? Well, the answer is…if you want to become a good web developer and want to have control on your web pages, you should be able to type the HTML code with hand. You can use the Text Editors to write the HTML page. Get a quick look at the HTML tutorial to get familiar with the mark up language. You can try out few of the example with HTML tags to gain some confidence in the language.

There are also good WYSIWYG HTML Editors available in the market. To begin with you can start with free HTML Editors available in the market like Nvu, Arachnoid

You might want to use the graphics in your website. There are free resources available on the net from where you can get good images and use them in your website. You don’t need to be a great graphic designer to edit those images. The best software for image editing or if you want to create the graphics yourself is Adobe Photoshop. You can learn the about the basic tools and filters available in Photoshop and start working . Rest you have to apply your imagination, creativity and practice to become an expert in Photoshop.

Clear Purpose

The purpose of your page should be very clear as what you want to convey to your reader.

Clear Design

The Design should be neat, clean and give a professional look.

Clear Navigation

Navigation not only helps your visitor to go through your website but is an important factor in Search Engine ranking. Navigation should be simple and try to maintain only two levels from the home page, if possible.

Use of appropriate Colors and Fonts

Use colors and fonts as per your website theme.

Maintaining the color scheme, text and style

The web pages of your website should look in synchronization, rather than making the visitor think that he is visiting some other website when he clicks on the next page of your website.

Use light graphic

The graphics, if used should be relevant and not very big in size as it determines the speed with which your page is downloaded in the browser.

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