Web Design for Everyone

     A bit definitions and the difference between design and art:

1. Design : As in the common definiton, design has two definition, those are defining a noun and defining a verb. As a noun, design is a process in making a project. As a noun, deisgn is a final result of the project. Overall, the definition of design is a drafting process of a project, not just about fine arts, but nowadays we can find something called as "design" in any field, like technology, in office's work, or else.
2. Art : a masterpiece that has an aesthetics. Refers to such as a fine arts like paintings, photograph, or else.

     The difference among them is can we see from those definitions, the design is something that made by someone called as designer that has a function and sometimes also conatining art. Usually use in architecture, technology, including building a website. And art is something that made just for make people feels amazed, not containing a specific function like design has.

     

     Related to a web building, a web designer not too much different with another design in some fields, but they have to know more about the segmentation of the website. There are 5 important things that required when we're gonna build a website, exactly an awesome website appearance. Those are :

1. Measurement. It's about the margination of the web appearance, like in header and footer, it has to had a certain pixelation so it can be more look attractive.
2. Typography. Sometime it also called as typefaces, including font character, font size, line length and spacing should be in 1,5 spaces, and also for letter spacing.
3. White Space. It's a portion of a page left unmarked.
4. Colouring. You have to find the common colour combination and try to make it looks eye-catching, and also comfort to see. You can do with analogue base, complementary base or nature base to pick the colours.
5. Tidiness. It's a re-check, is your website that you built has a tidy view or not, like the right position of the contents.

     For build a website, you can try a simple application for beginner, maybe in around years 2008 you know about the Microsoft Front Page, it's a simple application to build a website. Build the contents with some text and pictures, and publish it by using your email.

     So, still feel a bit hard to do it? Try more and more, don't be hesitate and surrender when you wanna make it. :)

                                                                                                         

Regards,

PIC Wednesday Class

*Has been delivered by D.W.A.N. in BritZone Wednesday Class, April 24th, 2013.