Website Designer Essentials

A website designer is employed for designing the appearance of a website or designing a web page. A web designer is often confused with a web developer whose task is to develop the background codes or programming for the website. The website designer manages the user interface or front end portion of the website. Some website designers develop the programming skill and can handle the whole project of developing and designing the site alone. Although a large and complex project may bring experts from various disciplines under one roof for developing the whole website with assistance of a project manager. Anyone can design now their own website with the aid of various online tools guiding the procedure.

Before designing a website, the designer must be very clear about the purpose of launching the site, client’s expectations from the website, its targeted audience, and intimate details of every aspect of the business which are concerned with the proposed website’s content. These are the preliminary things a website designer must know from the client’s end.

Imagination, creativity and a good sense of presentation is essential for a good
website designer
. A good sense is more than just knowing about the colors, shapes, fonts and images. Your eye for beauty can establish life even in the beast, so awareness about the basic principles, elements and tools of design is equally necessary along with technical skills. This essential knowledge may not be necessary for a web developer or programmer who is concerned with generating background codes for the website.

The technical skills essential for a website designer are as follows-

1. Master the HTML

Being the basic markup language, knowing HTML very well is prime need for designers. Although there are other markup languages, most W3C has standardised HTML as websites’ markup language and it has wide use. There are Advanced HTML, DHTML and other latest versions of these languages which will allow addition of advanced features on the website.

2. Learn CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) offers more flexibility to influence the layout and appearance of a webpage. This is advancement over HTML and most browsers supporting latest graphic displays allow CSS programmed websites.

3. Scripting languages are power skills

A website has two faces, the client side or user interface and the server side or back-end interface. JavaScript, Ajax are user side scripting language, and PHP, Java, ASP, Perl etc. are back-end scripting language. These are power tools for development purpose.

4. The Database empowers you

Essential for the developers, a database (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL) technique teaches you to manage, store and update informations.

5. Multimedia is the last word

Multimedia has the tools by which you create graphics, animations, import picture, images, create audio and visual effects or add animated figures in your website. Adobe Flash animation software, Kool Moves 7.0, Toon Boom, Maya 6.5 and 3D Studio Max 7.0 are some popular multimedia software.

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