Website Designing Methods and Trends: Web Design Tips
Showing posts with label Web Design Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Design Tips. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2013

Tips to Design and Develop Mobile Applications

There are numerous trends emerging in developing attractive mobile applications by using various tools and technologies. You can hardly find a single place when you start to develop your application. Some tips will enable you to design and develop mobile based applications as listed below:


1. Make a strategic plan:

Prior to designing and developing any mobile based application, proper planning and strategies are essential. It is necessary to cooperate between the design and development teams and for those clients who are developing the application.

Include various factors related to your business while creating an application:

• For instance, if you want to create an app for your restaurant, then include the latest menu of your restaurant where users can place their order as soon as possible.

• Suppose you have a retail firm and want to boost various operations, design such an app which helps to improve in organizing tasks into the business.

2. Create the design simple:

Keep the content and images as simple as possible which you want to display on the mobile devices. Don’t reduce the functionalities and content which you are displaying in the application but it means that your app should be working perfectly for different screen resolution. If you have lot of content, then divide it into different pages, which is easy to navigate on different screen resolution.

3. Select perfect framework:

In the mobile app, design and development frameworks are important. There are several frameworks available for designing and developing mobile app, but the most useful is jQuery Mobile. Two options are available for choosing the framework -- one is use full platform for the design needs and the other is mix or match framework to design and develop the app.

If you are a developer and using proper framework, know the ins and outs for getting better results of the product.

4. User experience is important:

To make any product or app successful in the market, user experience plays a decisive role. The reason is that your product or app is used by people often and one should also understand for whom it is catered for, whether it is meant for the youth or the elderly.

5. Ensure performance of the app:

When you launch the app, ensure its true value as much as possible. For instance, if there is a back button, then see it slides backwards. Ensure the use of colors which you have chosen and include them as they highlight the information.

From the strategic point of view, you should provide content with your mobile app, thus helping you to increase the brand value.

6. Ignore inbuilt button styles:

When you design an app for the mobile, you should ignore the default buttons which are provided inbuilt. If your app design sounds boring, then the default button style will not match up to your expectations. You can either use the inbuilt styles of the buttons or design custom buttons for your app design.

To sum up:

There are several things you need to include during designing mobile app. You should include the graphics by the graphic designers into the app. It will assist you to get the quality work and feedback for your app. When you finally create the app, you should take a look as to what has already been created.

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.