Quality web design makes your website stand out

 

The main aim of web design is to attract more visitors, generate more business leads, promote more sales of company products and services, and also to gain more return on investment. One has to build website with good professional touch so that each visitor turns into potential buyer. The different areas of web design includes web Graphic Design , interface design, standardized code etc. Web designers use different tools depending upon the requirement of website, the tools may be updated with new standards and software but the main principle concepts behind them remains same such as from HTML to HTML5, CSS to CSS3 etc. There were times where the layout of basic tools was very simple, but now it has enabled web designer to think beyond the point of HTML which leads to development of more progressed powerful sites.

 

 

There are few things to know when you start building a website, firstly familiarize yourself with HTML.It is an acronym of Hyper Text Markup Language.

Hypertext allows you to move around the web page by clicking on a special text or link, which will direct you to corresponding web page. HTML is easy to learn, it is constantly going under revision to elevate its function better and meet with the requirements.

 

Many new features and standards have emerged with the advance of HTML5. Now HTML5 is a big boom to market; it is a component for web and mobile developers. HTML5 enables apps to run without internet connection, but for the first access to the app an internet connection is required as the browser needs to use app cache to save the required resource locally. A single batch of code leads to less maintenance and a lower life time cost. HTML5 offers more reliable storage options, wherein internal and external customers can reload a previously visited web page fully even when they are offline. It also enables designer to use more fancier forms, and also it is easy to see which part of web page is header, footer, aside etc. 

Difference between Static and Dynamic website

 

When you come across the term website, it is important to know the difference between static and dynamic website so that you can determine best solution for your website.

 

 

A static website cannot be changed until the web master or someone else who is familiar with HTML does so. Since many people are unaware of the process they often pay a web savvy person to update it. Web browser sends request to web server over HTTP which is identified by URL and based on the request they provide information using HTML without using additional web application like database, web script etc. Static websites are cheaper to develop and host, but prove to be expensive to maintain.

 

 

Adynamic website offers the owner, ability to upload information on their own; these websites are produced by content management system or database with images, without the need of HTML knowledge. Dynamic websites are cost effective to maintain. It provides response after processing client side scripting and database driven content.

 

 

CSS is an acronym of Cascading Style Sheets helps you achieve such layouts, with the help of CSS you can specify details of an element only once, it will automatically apply the style whenever that element occurs, by this it will save a lot of time, instead of copying and pasting over and over again.

The look and layout of a site can be changed beyond recognition just by altering the CSS file; it reduces the bandwidth of the server and in turn allows faster download for your visitors. However, CSS alone cannot be used to create a web page. It works with HTML. CSS makes a website look good.

 

CSS3 has more power, speed and updatability than lower versions of CSS.The big advantage of CSS3 is that it allows web designers to create website with fewer requirements in terms of coding. It can handle more visual effects than previous versions of css. Another advantage of CSS3 is that it is now supported by majority of web browsers. HTML5 and CSS3 makesit easier for alternative apps to be developed and supported.

 

 

Content Management System (CMS) is used to manage the website, it is always not necessary to concern webmasters who have expertise to manage the creation and modification of a website. With the help of CMS content manager can manage the website without knowing the HTML language. It provides many tools to enhance the ability of a website to tailor its content with user specific characteristics.A CMS designed for web publishing provides options and features to index and search documents for search engine crawlers.CMS features vary widely from system to system.

The very famous and most popular open source CMS are Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal.All these CMS platforms need certain authorizations of server to install, and make use of PHP and MySQL languages.  

 

With the use of Joomla a website can be customized according to the user needs. JOOMLA offers many extensions and modules to add in your website in order to make it unique. It is used all over world to power websites of all types and sizes. It is easy to install and setup even if you’re not an advanced user. JOOMLA is developed to overcome the problems which are faced in static web pages. For example, to add another navigation button in current page ofa static web page you need to rebuild entire navigation system.

 

Though JOOMLA is a very popular CMS system, there are other CMS platforms that are also widely used by internet users.One of them is WordPress, which is intuitive and is easy to use than the software used by Joomla. WordPress is used more as a blogging platform than a website builder, it is more suitable for beginners wanting to create website for the first time and also for the web masters who are in between intermediate and experts. WordPress provides easy way for making fully functional and fast running websites without much technical knowledge. Although JOOMLA is also a very powerful CMS system, WordPress is bit easier to understand once user gets the feel of it.

 

Drupal is also one of the powerful CMS system, it has more secured code. Drupal requires greater technical knowledge to implement and control website. Drupal is basically a solution for small and medium traffic based websites.

 

 

Depending upon the requirement one can choose different CMS systems, but the main goal is to satisfy user needs and attract them to your website. WordPress website is the ideal solution for the vast majority of small to medium sized business looking for an affordable internet marketing website. Since it is the popular platform and the support community is very large. JOOMLA is a best choice for websites when a large number of active users need to publish content as a team. Drupal is an equally good choice.All these are extremely robust content management system options.