5 Perfect Rules for a Website Design Project
Success is perhaps the ultimate reality and a direct result of failure! You have to fail to be able to succeed perhaps in all endeavors of business in order to pick points that would slowly but surely tailor and unforeseen path towards accomplishment and contentment. When beginning a web site design project, it is imperative to remain optimistic and also realize that if it’s your first design project, there are those learning curves where one may think they have the expertise already but, there’s always room for improvement. Always! This for example is your first client and all you have in mind is how to win them over with your design? Perfect! That is perhaps the only motivating factor that would contribute to your intuitive ideas. When leading from the front and managing a project, try and minimalize the business aspects aside.
Think about it from the client’s perspective, even before you begin, because this ultimately is their project and you are playing the significant role of bringing it to life! That is where you have room to enlighten the client of certain vital tips and touch ups to the complete project to bring about a certain uniqueness along with creativity within the website, beyond the clients expectations. 5 distinct yet significant rules could lead your new or existing project towards a path of evolutionary success and probably help in knowing the base of every other website design project.
Client Collaboration
Knowing what your client wants and doing exactly that is fruitful. Nevertheless a few hints and tips would always be beneficial for both parties. Their overall objectives, purpose of the website, a specific audience to be targeted, unique features to be incorporated as per the client & the immediate goals of the client must be on your mind. If you as the project lead and the client or on the same page of the above, then you may proceed with budgeting.
Once you and your client are on the same page in terms of the website goals, the budget would be outlined and easily determined. Obviously this will be confirmed on a written (legal) document for both you and your client’s peace of mind, holding both you and the client equally responsible for the complete project with given deadlines if need be.
Research & Planning
Now that budget is outlined, Research is to be thoroughly conducted, as you already know what costs how much & now the client would need to updated and educated of the costs involved with reasoning. A tutorial or a presentation would be the ideal approach. Research and planning would include more of UX (User Experience) to understand different design patterns and their responses to conclude the best suitable developing strategy.
It is necessary to understand the wireframe of a client’s website. Knowing what is to be added, altered or edited from the client directly is always beneficial. Nevertheless, if you find an approach which isn’t compatible with the website, a professional nod of negation or an appeal is sufficient as the website project is yours but the ultimate ‘website’ itself is the client’s. You just have to respect that!
Design
Well this is the real deal for a website design — CODING. Most website developers are in love with coding and different variations of Java and CSS. The smallest errors occur when browser compatibility isn’t checked or the basic diagnostics is skipped. A tested website design would have the utmost respect with a client when compared to that of a website that which hasn’t been given the trial and error run. Coding was always considered complex and is still for those who haven’t spent time on it or those who aren’t aware of its functionality, but a website design project is equally challenging and considered a Hercules task with constraint timescales.
Path to Success
Alterations or additions of any kind must always be considered before coding. Reason being, coding is a final process after theoretical and practical approaches and conclusions towards, content, use of logos, headers & sub-headers, social networking options, footers, e.tc.
Upon the Mock Up process, once the complete design is finalized, with the approval process of Reviewing and Client feedback, a bit of alterations here and there & the final acceptance — the most significant step of all would come to play — Layout of Typefaces. Elements that are legible at various resolutions must be considered, dark color schemes would get twice as much as traffic (up to 35%) considering light color backgrounds.
As long as the interface is free of clutter and integrated with intuition for ease of access, the next step would automatically form path for final development and launch.
Trial & Error — LAUNCH
Well, now that the complete set up is in its final stage, the curve begins to narrow down for the complete website design project. From the development phase more than 49% had been on HTML 5 code in the past, or at least as of 2013.
The implementation alternatives still include Application Frame Work and Content Management System.
This would conclude your project, it’s all set up. You look at your website for the first time and feel like it’s your brain child. Well you should, you gave it life and people all over the world are going to use it for betterment and use of ecommerce.
Oh but please don’t get carried away, the final steps before concluding and presenting the same with the client is to run diagnostics, check for browser compatibility and last but not the least check the chat functionality and the social network slots. If it’s all good. Then you are ready to hand it over!
Conclusion:
The above is a basic synopsis or an everyday happening in the life of a website designer. All it takes is a bit of positivity, responsibility, professionalism and adherence to timescale to develop and launch a strategic website. But if you can manage it with flawless capabilities and just that 1 or 2 revisions, then word of mouth would lead to your success as a website designer.
