Most people under estimate the design of their website. That’s because most people tend to think in functional terms of the underlying site. They also tend to have their own perspective on the site – on what they would want to see. But design is a very important aspect of your website. It isn’t a “frilly” thing that shouldn’t be considered. Let me give you some reasons that you must consider design and then move onto some ideas for getting a good design.

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There are lots of things to consider when you want to build a web site. A few of them involve:

• Layout
• Color
• Font/Typeface

Layout is important when you build a web site as this provides the limits/boundaries of site content and the flow of the site. A builder site web application can be useful for layout as it makes things easy for you to keep the layout and flow the same on all pages of the web site you build. Layout will also create an impression/feel for the site. If you look at a circle, you may have thoughts of openness, adjustable, more free. However, when looking at a square, you may have thoughts of structure, strict, confined. Thus, the shapes used for your layout (such as the navigation, body, and footer parts when you build a web site) will have an unconcious impact on the user browsing. Keep in mind that the shapes may not be defined immediately with lines but parts put together build the overall structure and layout of the site.

When you build a web site, the color also plays an important rule as colors also create various types of feelings. You’ll notice that a lot of tech companies use the color blue, web hosting included . This is because the color blue promotes a new, advanced, innovative, technical feel. If you choose to build a web site related to home trends, colors to consider may be shades of light green or light reddish brown colors. Before building your web site, you may want to visit sites that obtain similar content and take a look at the type of color schemes used. A builder site web application is also helpful here as it will more than likely pick a color scheme for you when you choose the overall theme of the site.

Font and typeface, just as color, provide a specific type of feel when you build a web site. When you look at sites that have a ‘modern’ feel, what type of font do they use? Likely they use a variant of the font Arial, or another type of a sans-serif font (opposite of serif fonts, that have an extra ’serif’ at the end of strokes on letters). Keep in mind that your font choice when you build a web site will provide extra meaning and feelings about your site. Again, a builder site web application may be helpful here with pre-defined fonts based on the overall theme.

However, when using a builder site web application for your site design, please keep in mind that you may not have the type of freedom you have when you write the code for the site yourself. But then again, writing the code yourself requires some knowledge in at least HTML and likely a programming language such as PHP or Perl. Have fun with building a web site