Customer Street and UFindUs Web Design

Good day to you all. Today’s article is going give you the once over on webdesign.

Lets get started!

First of all open photoshop and select File > New ( CTRL + N ). Input the dimensions of your site ( example: 800 x 600 ). Remember length isn’t an issue but keep you width to a maximum of 800 pixels.

Think carefully about your layout and refer to your site map. Start from the top of the page, plan your banner and navigation, then continue down sculpting the first content areas and any additional navigation menu’s.

NOTE: When designing navgation menu’s try to make them look simple and uncomplicated.

The busier the site is the more professional it should look. Try not to pile to much content on to your homepage, ideally add a “Read more” or “Go to” link underneath the snipet of content to lead to a page with the full article on it.

As an employee of Customer Street I need to keep up to date with all the latest design techniques. The best way I have found to do this is to regularly read web design articles and look at some of the best web designs on CSS Galleries.

One common mistake a handful of ‘wanna be’ web designer have is to blatently copy someone elses work. This is where they take a copy of someone elses website, change the logo and content, and then try to pass it off as their own. I’ve seen some really extreme copies where they don’t even change the logo !

Have a look at these screen shots

I can understand using certain ideas from other websites as I do it myself, but I only ever use ideas from other websites if I can rebuild them and call them my own.

Remember: There is INSPIRATION and there is just COPYING. Don’t fall in the trap !