CAT | Web Designer

Jan/12

27

Custom-built Website Design

Custom-built website design means the website is tailored to suit your requirement. There are many types of websites on the internet today, including blogs, forums, tutorials and Ecommerce websites. It helps the company to present a good impression of the website owner. Besides having a consistent layout of the Ecommerce website, custom-built websites could be designed to be more appealing by adding flash openings about the company. One of the benefits of having a custom website design is that the website can have electronic reports, brochures and catalogues. This saves printing cost and also allows periodic updations to the reports, brochures and catalogues. This makes the customer feel more comfortable with the company since the product description given on the website exactly matches the actual physical product specifications. A custom website design allows the user to be more elastic with the website’s content and the design.

All Ecommerce websites are intended for making online purchase. An Ecommerce web designer plays a key role in building a website which promotes and facilitates easy online purchases. People stay on any website only when the Ecommerce web design is able to make a favorable impact. An attractive Ecommerce web design can get more customers to your site. Hence, deciding a suitable Ecommerce web designer is equally essential. There are some companies which offer professional web services like web designer, Magento developer and Ecommerce web design with custom built solutions for your business. Such companies can design a website according to your business needs.

While evaluating a custom website design and a normal template design, it is preferred to select the custom one. A website is constantly sighted by many users of the internet which is why it is essential to have a custom made design so that the website stays on in users’ memories. Once a user remembers a web site, he would absolutely visit the web site another time. Thus, a custom web site design is a better option.

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White space divides different website elements like texts and images. White space is an open space between design elements which can be present between letters, words or paragraphs of text. It is also present in and outside of graphics and between all of the elements of the webpage. It is necessary for providing spatial relationships between visual items. White space also guides readers while moving from one point to another. It is a significant component of layout designing. Any web designer needs to carefully take it into consideration.

Visually, since web pages put more strain on the visitors’ eyes than any equivalent printed matter, it is difficult to go through the same amount of web pages as print pages. White space provides eyes with a breather before they continue to imbibe the next lot of objects presented. A web designer should consider white space as more than just a background – it is a vital component to web page design and should be used appropriately in order to make web design easy for visitors’ eyes. While designing a webpage, the web designer should give careful attention to the spacing between webpage elements like graphics, images, text and paragraphs etc. Without sufficient white space, it would difficult for the user to read text contents and also decipher highlighting of the graphics. This, however, does not mean that spacing between elements needs to be kept very large, it only means that the elements should have balanced spacing between them.

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Jan/12

23

Self maintenance of a website

As a cost saving measure, self maintenance of websites is increasingly becoming prevalent, especially for the following types of businesses:
-    Those which are small to medium in size
-    Those who already  have their own websites
-    Those which allow online additions to their websites
-    Those which have budget constraints for website maintenance
-   Those which have databases that often need to be updated

Web designers have recognised this growing demand for self maintenance websites and are providing specialised services to cater to this segment. There are two chief objectives behind self maintenance.  The first is to save money and the second is to have control over website. Customers can save money by doing the website maintenance themselves. They also look for the freedom to be able to of make regular modifications, updates, additions and deletions to their website to reflect underlying changes in their businesses or products, than to work with third parties for the same. Many web designer companies are now offering a complete set up for Ecommerce websites allowing website owners direct control over maintenance issues of the website.

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Jan/12

20

Internet marketing

In today’s networked world, it has become important for all businesses to go online due to the increasing use of internet for searching and shopping for products and services. An increasing number of people prefer to compare prices and quality and shop online for their requirements.  When you take your business online, it is necessary to attract and retain a large number of customers so as to make sufficient sales and earn a profit on the development and maintenance costs of the website. To that extent, an Ecommerce website has become a profit centre in its own right, not unlike a physical store or any other point-of-sale. There are many web designer companies which provide development and maintenance services for internet marketing businesses.

Internet marketing can boost traffic to your business website to a large extent. The purpose behind nay business website is to maximise sales and profits. To make a sale, the first step is to attract visitors and ensure that they stay with your site. Using Internet marketing, you can enhance traffic to your website. By choosing a good web designer, you can ensure that your website is attractive and functional enough to retain the customer and make a sale to her/him. For this, it is suggested that you should take the help of professional web developers and web designers to build a smart and functional website for your business.

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The latest version of the Adobe Dreamweaver incorporates features which make designing of Ecommerce websites simpler. It is recommended that web designer familiarise themselves with these features, so that the advantages offered by them can be useful.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5
The Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is one of the best web authoring and editing software in the web design industry that has the potential to create different websites for different devices like desktops, tablets and any other devices supporting web functionality.  Now there is a support for media queries in the Design view and you can also apply various styles as you change screen dimensions. Code for the future with HTML5 and code with hinting and Design view rendering support. Live View now has support for video (with QuickTime) and <svg> tags.
JQuery & Adobe BrowserLab integration
With the jQuery integration in the Dreamweaver, you can get a highly developed interactivity through jQuery code hinting. JQuery is the JavaScript library with which you can easily include an extensive range of interactivity to web pages. With the Adobe Browser Lab integration in Dreamweaver, it is now possible to preview dynamic web pages and local content using tools like multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison.  BrowserLab is an adobe CS live online service that perfectly checks the web content across browsers and operating systems.

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