Typography Use in Website Design

Typography Use in Website Design Typography use is not new and it helps website designers to create websites of the beauty and rich art. However, it can be said that most browsers recognize and display a specific number of safe fonts well only, this is why designers should choose to limit and reduce the variety of website typefaces to only a few which are of a similar and popular style, instead of using a wide range of typefaces or type styles, and mainly use them in order to avoid complications. This can also make the work of website design faster, more effective and safer. As the CSS3 fonts module supports font downloading and it has been also implemented in some browsers such as Safari 3.1, Opera 10 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5. So the use of font downloading is necessary and brings much convenience, as well as increases interest in web typography. In a modern design, the website designers make most site layouts to incorporate negative space to break the text up into paragraphs and also avoid center-aligned text.

Page Layout of a Website

Page Layout of a Website It can be sure that a part of the user interface design is affected by the quality and dynamic ability of the page layout, a designer may also consider whether the site’s page layout should remain consistent on different pages of a website when designing the layout. At beginning, the designers can decide to have fixed-width websites which generally have the same set width to match the current most popular browser window, at the current most popular screen resolution, on the current most popular monitor size and the current most popular need of users. In some cases, most pages are also center-aligned for concerns of aesthetics on larger screens. Fluid layouts became a trend around 2000 as an alternative to html-table-based layouts and grid-based design in both interface design and coding technique, but they were very slow to be adopted as the designers had no control over screen reading devices and varying window sizes. Accordingly, a design may be broken down into units (header, footer, menu, content blocks, sidebars or embedded advertising area) that are sent to the browser and will be fitted into display window or screen size by the browser, as best it can. As the browser does recognize the details of the reader’s screen (window size, image size and font size relative to window etc.) the browser can make user-specific layout adjustments to fluid layouts, but not fixed-width layouts and this was a new experience for the users. Such a display may also often change the relative position of major content units, sidebars may be displaced below body text rather to the side of it. This is a more flexible and useful display than a hard-coded grid-based layout that doesn’t fit the device window. In particular, the relative position of content blocks may change or differ while leaving the content within the block unaffected. This also minimizes the user’s need to horizontally scroll the page, and help to optimize the use of a website. Responsive design was a new top approach to website design in 2012, based on the power of CSS3, and a deeper level of per-device specification within the page’s stylesheet through a progressive enhancement use of the CSS media queries.

User Experience Design and Interactive Design

The understanding of the content of a website often depends on the understanding of how the website works and displays, and this is called the user experience design, a part of user-oriented design. User experience is related to layout, clear instructions, easy navigation and labeling on a website. How well a user understands how he/she can interact on a site may also depend on the interactive design, in general it may also be called human-computer interaction. If a user perceives the usefulness of the website, he/she is more likely to continue using it and stay in longer each session. Users who are skilled and well versed with the use of a website may find a more distinctive, yet less intuitive or less user-friendly website interface useful nonetheless. However, users with less experience are less likely to see the advantages, the beauty or usefulness of a less intuitive website interface. This drives the trend for a more universal user experience, look and feel and ease of access to accommodate as many users as possible regardless of user skills. Much of the user experience design and interactive design are in the process of the user interface design of the website design.

Advanced interactive functions may require plug-ins if not advance coding language skills or it is an effective replacement. Choosing whether or not to use interactivity that requires plug-ins is a considerable and selectable decision in user experience design. If the plug-in doesn’t come pre-installed with most browsers, it will be a bad decision as there is a risk that the user will have neither the know how or the patience to install and use a plug-in just make a website more functions. If the function requires advanced coding language skills, it may be too costly in either time or money for the designer to code compared to amount of enhancement the function will add to the user experience by using outside components. There is also a risk that advanced interactivity may be incompatible with older browsers, low resolution screen or hardware configuration. Publishing a function that doesn’t work reliably is reputation lost and potentially worse for the user experience than making no attempt. It depends on the target audience if it is likely to needed, useful or worth any risks.

Marketing and Communication Skill Design

Marketing and communication skill design on a website can identify what works for its target market including customers and representatives. This can be an age group, top interest or particular strand of culture, thus the designers can understand and catch the trends of consumption.

Designers must also understand and use well the type of website they are designing, meaning, for example, that e-commerce website design considerations might differ greatly from a customer targeted website such as a sales, tourism or restaurant website. Careful consideration and examination might be made to ensure that the aesthetics, richness and accuracy of the content or the easy navigation of website.

Designers may also consider, protect and even support the reputation of the website owner or business the site is representing to make sure they are the best choice.

Website Design Tools and Technologies

No tools can be used for all works, they are a variety of choices, depending on what part of the production process website designers are involved in, they will use the best right tools and their choices are different from each website designer. These tools are updated continuous and over time, some can go to be ended. The newer version will have newer standards and software but the core principles behind them remain the same.

The website designs use graphics tools to create web-formatted imagery, PNG images or design prototypes and they can be vector or raster graphics. Primary technologies are used to make a website design, include W3C standards like HTML, CSS and XML which can be hand-coded, built-in component or generated by WYSIWYG editor. The website designers can use validators to check their websites of standard conformation and other testing tools for usability, measurability or accessibility to ensure their website to compete strongly in the World Wide Web.

Website Design In Discussion

Website design includes many different technics, skills and disciplines, these are used to product, update and maintain websites. The difference from other fields, the website design requires special components, they can be the main areas such as graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardized code and proprietary software, user experience and SEO. Often there are some individuals working in a group to cover all different aspects of the design process, it is suitable for large and medium sizes. In small size companies, one designer will cover all the works. The term website design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up, tags and codes optimization and guarantee. Website design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of website development, it is an essential-needed segment in order for the website design goes further. And one thing is sure, website designers are expected to have an awareness of usability, look and feel, and economy and if their role involves creating something new and beautiful then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility knowledge.

Development Trend Of Handheld

The handset is called mobile, convenient and dynamic may be mentioned as tablets, smart phones, mobile phones. Users easily take with you even in the process of moving and not meet any obstacle.

Currently these devices has overcome problems like size, fashion styles and tastes are emphasized. The material used to fabricate devices such as metal, plastic, wood is used in combination with color and fashion ability.

Display size greater than combined with touch capabilities to enhance the user experience, coupled with the web surfing for smartphones and online conferencing capabilities for machine tablet above the media functionality of the device.

The operating system is usually supplied with the device, the major equipment manufacturers now as Apple, Google, Microsoft, ... and the ability to download, install thousands of applications expand.

Apple users tend to be stylish and striking, with the acquisition of Nokia mobile carrier Microsoft products are considered new flow.

The new version, upcoming tablet like the Galaxy Tab S2, Tablet G Pad II, of Smartphone like iPhone 6S, Galaxy Note 5, Sony Xperia Z5, Microsoft Lumia 940, HTC One M9 +, Motorola Moto G, ... user can look forward to enjoying the benefits that technology brings.