Website Designing Methods and Trends: December 2012

Monday, December 31, 2012

Hidden Advantages Of Wordpress Web Design


Currently, all business enterprises run on the internet. But, some entrepreneurs believe that to create the website for the business, you need lots of investment. But, it is totally wrong when you choose the Wordpress software for developing the website.

Wordpress is one of the most powerful open source CMS for designing and developing the website. It is useful and provides different facilities for developing your own striking blogs and websites for your business as well as personal use. Additionally you don’t require investing lots of money and also it is easy to use.

There are several advantages attached with the Wordpress web design as listed below:

  • Modification :

Wordpress provides several free templates for designing an impressive website for your business and you can easily download the zip file. After unzipping the folder, you can upload it onto your server. Thereafter, you need to login in to admin panel and choose it to your website. You can also edit the entire template as per your needs. This is how you get to see the template displayed on your website after refreshing the web page.

  • Easy to maintain :

Wordpress is easy to use and also the newbie can easily maintain the entire blog or website from the admin panel. You can easily add, edit and delete the post from the blog without any knowledge of HTML language.
 
  • Design of Website or Blog is Search Engine Friendly :

There are various Plugins available in Wordpress which enable you to design search engine friendly website or blog. This allows you to create the Title tag and Meta tag for your content. If you will publish the new content on your website or blog, it will give alerts to search engines about your content.

  • Generate RSS feeds for the blog :

It allows web developers to improve the true value of a website by using Wordpress, which is viable with RSS feed included in Wordpress websites and blogs. Most of the websites will not generate RSS feed automatically but Wordpress allows to create it automatically.

  • Interactivity :

Wordpress permits users to post their views and feedback in the form of comments on your blog posts. Besides, they can also subscribe to your RSS feeds. You can also promote the blog posts on social networking websites by putting the buttons of social networking websites.

  • Multiple Plugins :

It gives the facility of several Plugins to improve the ability of Wordpress CMS. Wordpress Plugin allows users to use and work in the website with complete easiness. It is efficient for developers to exploit several Plugins without any kind of manual code entry.

  • Open Source Platform :

Developers can easily view the source code and the main reason is that Wordpress is an open source CMS. It allows programmers to work within the code to get the required operations and functions. Additionally this application has complete documentation which will aid anybody with some skill of PHP to work on it without any trouble.

  • Wordpress is self updating :

You can pick the Plugins with its features to get any updates. If you want to install automatically regarding to that update, you just need to click the links.

  • Easy and quick to install :

The installation of this software is quite efficient to use. To install it, you just need to follow the basic instruction. When the installation is completed, you just need to give general information that will assist you to install the Wordpress for the website.

There are several other advantages of Wordpress based web design like Plugins for database.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Different types of layout for the website design

In the technological era, the use of Smartphones is used day by day. For this purpose, it is impossible to avoid the resolution of the browser on different devices whether it is an iPhone, windows based mobiles or a tablet as everyone wants the best experience on the same design of the website for various devices. As a professional web designer, they should offer the users an excellent experience to the users.

Currently, every owner of the website wants their website works properly on both computer and on mobile devices. It is quite a challenging task for the designers and not possible for the designers to create the same design for various devices.
To design a website, there are various types of options available to select the layout of the website design. There are different types of layouts explained which can be used in the design of the website:

Primary Fluid Layout

In the fluid layout, the layout is based on the units rather than complete pixels. Nowadays, this kind of layout is created by the designers which are created in the percentage.
It is a simple process whereby designers will give the size in the percentage rather than giving inflexible width in pixels to the layout. Fluid based layout adjusts the width of the website in the whole browser.

Adaptive Layout

Through this, designers can use fixed size layout instead of using the percentage based layout. Designers will acclimatize those sizes based on the width of the browser and it will created by using various breakpoints.

Responsive Layout

Responsive layout is nothing but the combination of fluid and adaptive layout. It uses the units of fluid layout and break points from the adaptive layout.

Image Based Layout:

The skill and imagination are hidden in the opting of the images rather than creating a framework in the image based layout. Designers have to give suggestions in choosing the images or creating the custom images where the entire look of the website is dependent on various elements like colors, backgrounds and graphics.

Sometimes it is possible that the place of images is changed by viewing the image based layout in different browsers. Additionally, designers should optimize the images properly to increase the speed of the website.

Layout contentious to utilize the images

Apart from coming out from the disadvantage of the image based layout like the copyright images, designers can use different colors and fonts based on layout to design a website. There is minimal use of images in this kind of the layouts and also there is no any issue of downloading the images from the internet which can increase the look of the website. For that you have lots of space for content to optimize for the search engines.

Header, Body and Footer based common Layout

By using this type of layout, designers have to divide the entire website into three main parts -- header, body and footer. Sometimes, designers can divide the website in two parts -- top and bottom. It is easy to design for the designer and the reason is that the middle part of this layout contains only the content. Mostly all the designers include the products and its features in the top and the navigation menus in bottom.

Flash based layout for the website
A design creativity and technical implementation of the flash or animation plays an important role for the flash based layouts. In flash based layouts, designers have several options for creating the gorgeous websites by including good audio, video and graphics.

Designers should have to just check how user friendly the flash based website is. The only problem of creating flash based layout is that if you want to update anything in the website, you should take help of professional designers and also it will take more time for updating the details.