We
know your web-site is your dream, your passion,
your business, your hope and your connection to
the world. We work sincerely and passionately
to keep your dream alive and active all the time.
Any design work should be rich in content, informative,
have attractive layout, easily navigable in short
simple at the same time attractive. Websites have
become the most popular way of marketing your
company through the world wide web at affordable
rates. The kind of reach obtained in a website
is not comparable to any other medium which is
the reason why more and more companies are putting
their sites on the web.
Website Approach
When you begin thinking about creating a Web
site, you should follow a series of planning
steps to make sure your site succeeds. Even
if you are just creating a personal home page
that only friends and family will see, it can
still be to your advantage to plan the site
carefully in order to make sure everyone will
be able to use it successfully.
Determining Your
Goals:-
Deciding what your site goals are is the very
first step you should take when you create a
Web site. Ask yourself or your client questions
about the site. What do you hope to accomplish
by having a Web site? Write down your goals
so that you remember them as you go through
the design process. Goals help you focus and
target your Web site to your particular needs.
Choosing A Target
Audience:-
After you have decided what
you want to accomplish with your Web site, you
need to decide who you want to visit your site.
This may seem to be a silly question, since
most people want everyone to visit their Web
site. However, it is difficult to create a Web
site that every single person in the world will
be able to use. People use different browsers,
connect at different speeds, and may or may
not have media plug-ins. All these factors can
affect the use of your site. That is why you
need to determine a target audience.
Creating Sites
For Browser Compatibility:-
As you create your site, you
should be aware of the variety of Web browsers
your visitors are likely to use. Where possible,
design sites for maximum browser compatibility,
given other design constraints.
Not all browsers see your web pages the same
way. If you designed a great looking site using
Microsoft Internet Explorer, try also viewing
it in Netscape - it might look different ! Keep
changing it until it looks right in both browsers.
Organizing The
Site Structure:-
Organizing your site carefully
from the start can save you frustration and
time later on. If you begin creating documents
without thinking about where in your folder
hierarchy they should go, you may end up with
a huge, unwieldy folder full of files, or with
related files scattered through a half-dozen
similarly named folders.
Creating Your
Design Look:-
You save a lot of time later in the process
if you plan your design and layout before you
actually begin working in Dreamweaver. It can
be as simple as creating a mock-up drawing of
how you want the site layout to look on a piece
of paper. The important thing is to have a mock-up
of your layout and design so you can follow
it later as you build your site.
Designing The
Navigation Scheme:-
Another area where planning
pays off is navigation. As you design your site,
think about the experience you want your visitors
to have. Think about how a visitor to your site
will be able to move from one area to another.
Design the way your navigation will look. Navigation
should be consistent throughout your site. If
you place a navigation bar across the top of
your home page, try to keep it there for all
the linked pages.
Planning And
Gathering Your Assets:-
Once you know what your design
and layout will look like, you can create and
gather the assets that you will need. Assets
can be items such as images, text, or media
(Flash, Shockwave, and more). Make sure you
have all of these items gathered and ready to
go before you begin developing your site. Otherwise,
you'll have to continually stop development
to find an image or to create a button.
