Here the novice web designer can learn the basics of web design in six simple steps. Build a web site giving you great results and be search engine friendly. We recommend professional software such as "Adobe Dreamweaver" or "MS Front Page" there is even online software such as our Site Builder. We will explain the concept behind good website design as follows.

Design and layout should be simple and clean looking. Your website should have proper link navigation, by linking your web pages that you build through out your web site and include a site map. On this page you reading right now the layout and design is simple and effective. You can see very clearly that we have designed a 2 column web page with a small heading logo and using small topic graphics i.e. step images. We have also used a white back ground, this is important for several reasons, white backgrounds make your website easy to read for all visitors and more compatibility with design and color schemes.

Here in this section we will explain the use of "Web Graphics" and "Web Design Options" including "PHP scripts". Note: Scripts are very cool, they automate your website and are very powerful asset to include in website design. If you are interested in using scripts we recommend PHP, it is very easy to learn and apply to your website design.

It is easy to get carried away with colors, the computer can display any color you desire. The key to good web design is to use only 3 to 4 colors that are in the same family group. Choosing these colors is more difficult then one would think. It is best to choose lighter colors simply because it is easy on the eyes. We have a handy color scheme picker that can help you pick the correct colors, it is super easy to use and will give you a better understanding on how to choose the best colors for your web site. color scheme picker

Once again you can get carried away with fonts just as you can with colors. It is best to stick with professional looking text for your web site. The text you are reading is "Verdana" we also recommend using "Arial" or "Tahoma" these 3 fonts look great and are very easy to read. Sometimes when your building your first web site you the tendency is to get to "Funky" unless this what your website is about. When building a website to sell products or services you should use the fonts we have suggested for better over all results and guarantee a well designed website.

Here in this section we will explain the use of "Web Graphics" and "Web Design Options" including "PHP scripts". Note: Scripts are very cool, they automate your website and are very powerful asset to include in website design. If you are interested in using scripts we recommend PHP, it is very easy to learn and apply to your website design.

Step 4. Choosing Graphics

Limit your graphics and images on your website. Some designs can go way over board causing your web pages to load slowly, even on a high speed internet connection you have to be careful. We suggest 1 or 2 images per page, if you have a lot of images you may want to display them on a single web page as "Thumbnail images" having each thumbnail image link to a separate page for your larger photos, images or graphics. There are many image file types used in web design. JPEG, PNG are common for larger image files. GIF is used for small images like the ones used here on this web site i.e. Step images.

Step 5. Design Options

Before you design your website you should know about Cascading Style Sheets commonly known as CSS. CSS Style sheets are amazing and so powerful it is truly incredible what you can do with them. A advanced CSS expert can design an entire website from style sheets. A style sheet is a text document that use the standard tag attribute used in your html code. We are currently writing in detail how CSS works and will publish it in the near future. CSS is simple to use once you under stand the basics, the best way to learn is to experiment.

Step 6. PHP Scripts

Using scripts for website automation is what made Ebay, Yahoo, DMOZ and countless other web sites owners very successful. Back when the web became public a few certain programmers knew of scripts and how to write them. A script is able to call information from a server and is able to store data in a database known as SQL, almost all scripts are controlled by a user control panel making the script easy to manage.

We hope you enjoyed our quick guide to web design. These are just a few very basics of web design we will be including more web design articles in the near future. Please bookmark this page and check back with us.

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