How to Design your first website? – Some tips and tricks

Many people will have doubts regarding what all things they need to know for starting a website? But, before that, why website? People feel more cozy and try to get everything with a click! People believe in internet reviews rather than a neighbour’s advice. Also, internet is the trend! Running a website can help you get more viewers – if you are running a business, then it will get you more customers! You can also advertise your brand over the internet and drive people towards your business. So lets see how to get kick started with this!

Start with HTML

HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the basic of all the languages and the latest version HTML 5 also helps incorporating videos without the need of Flash player. HTML describes the basics and contents of a web page. There are six things to create in order to make your content pleasing to the viewer’s eyes. They are:

• Text
• Lists
• Links
• Objects
• Tables
• Forms

As more and more companies are relying not on Flash, this is rather an advantageous move. The less-security of Flash was first put to Adobe by Steve Jobs of Apple,Inc. stating that it was less secure and thus the devices were more vulnerable to attack. This hurt Adobe and they stopped developing the Flash player for iDevices and eventually all the Android devices also ceased support for the player.

See some of our demos on HTML5.

Beautify with CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It helps decide the looks and formatting. Its main purpose is to style documents return in HTML or XHTML (Extensible HTML) but it can also be applied to any XML documents. There are 12 steps/objects to CSS designing. They are:

• Selectors
• Advanced Selectors
• Box Model
• Values and units
• Texts, Fonts and Lists
• Backgrounds and Borders
• Web typography
• Media Queries
• CSS Gradients
• CSS Animations
• Flex-box and Multi-Column layout
• Transitions and Transforms

Do you know the CSS can really make your website rich and stylish? Yes, and CSS3 has taken things to the next level, so you could just make all animations and transition using only CSS3 either than to do them with javascript!

Checkout more demos on CSS3

Choose an appealing background for your website

Choosing a perfect background is the first step in styling your website. Choose an appropriate image or make yourself one or put a pleasing texture as your background. You may like to choose patterns or textures as they look pretty good behind and any of your content might appear bold. Here, we have an excellent article that gives you more than 40+ patterns to choose and  all this is done just with CSS3 – so you could reduce the load time of your website by cutting the background image load time. You might also choose to have HTML5 gradient backgrounds, read this tutorial for more.

Make use of Twitter Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a front-end framework that could help you to in faster web-development.

Get Bootstrap here.

Make your website responsive

We have a lot of devices and OS platforms  like the  Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, RIM, Symbian, Mozilla’s Firefox OS, Tizen, Sailfish, Ubuntu for mobile and many more in the market now with each having its unique set of features. And these may run on laptops, tablets, mobiles or even smart tv and Washing machines. But what you need to develop, is a website which can be viewed properly on all of these devices! Don’t panic it’s easy, there are ways to do this. Read tips to develop smartphone apps across multiple platforms. Always remember to make the website in the middle of the screen so you don’t have to optimize it for tablets as well as smartphones. If it is in the corner of the page and you zoom in, it will rather look odd.

You might also read a number of our articles on Web designing.

Test your website

Before making the website live, be sure to make recursive test and assure that the website works as desired. Any fail, after public release will get you a negative point.

Make your Website Secure

Be sure the content is secured and it is not hack-able easily.

Read our article : A Definitive guide to Secure your Web Server – 50 Best Practices for best practices in secure coding and hosting.

Choose a Hosting for your website

There are many Web hosting sites that allow you to put up your website, if you have a domain name and your content ready. Check out the infographic for top hosting services.

Source : Whoishostingthis

Finally, Market your website!

Now check out this video which states the importance of a website and its digital Marketing!