Tips for creating your new website.
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We all know that planning process is very importat before every project and it is the same with a new website. Beforehand we have to think how we are going to organise our website and what elements it should have. Nowadays it is important that our website content adapts to different devices and that’s why we should use responsive design. I would recomend mobile first approach where we start our designing process from mobile device and then we adapt it to tablet and laptop versions.
When we finish the planning phase, we can start coding. It is important to indent our code, which helps to make it clear and legible. It’s so much easier to work with the indented code and add to it new changes and adjustments. We should first focus on functionality of our website and then on fancy design. All the features and functions should operate properly before we start adding extras to make our website more atractive. To check if our code is up to W3C standars, we can use their code validator.
Accessibility is an important aspect when creating a new website. It refers to the ability to access our website and its contents by all the people, regardless of their disability or technological knowledge. We have to structure our website using correct HTML labels that are semantic. If we use photos, we need to add an alternative text to them with the information about the image. The alternative text can be read by screen readers used by blind people and it also appears on the website when one of our photos fails to load. More information about accessibility we can find in WAI of W3C.
The last thing that I would like to share is that we also need to make sure that our website will appear correctly in different browsers. It is imposible to make it look perfect in all the browsers, but we have to make sure that it looks good in the browsers used by our users.
