Some helpful tips for web design newbies

Kevin Murphy

Wed, 06/20/2012 - 09:43

You need a website. Or you have a website, but you need a better one.There are lots of decisions to be made throughout this process. We discuss the pros and cons of doing your website yourself and other technical decisions onour new blog post
. We also run through the four important tips that will help you along the way, including finding the right designer, mapping out the site, finding graphic assets, and discovering production and post-launch strategies.

Have you recently designed a website? Did you do it yourself or hire a designer? What were some of the biggest challenges? Successes?

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Amanda T.

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 23:15

I have gone through the article. Must say some really cool tips.

Anna Lind

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 03:06

Thanks for the interesting blog post, Kevin. Reminded me of the time I managed website creation for a company I used to work for. That experience taught me a few points about planning and creating a new website. The lesson that sticks out the most is to always look carefully through the web designer's portfolio and see if their style corresponds to your expectations. They may listen to your wishes at your initial meeting and say they can do exactly that, but it's hard for a person to part with a style they've used for a long time. We actually had a designer who was trying to put flash animations on our site, while we expected a more formal and simpler look. I didn't pick the designer, someone else did, I just had to work with them. But looking at the designer's portfolio it was hard not to see that they use flash in all their works (and are really good at it), so hiring them for our website and expecting them to produce something completely different wasn't very smart. A great lesson though. ))

Maikel Cordeiro

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 10:39

I'm designing a website and blog (www.mizusoft.biz and blog.mizusoft.biz) and it's really a hard work to do.

My blog I contracted wordpress and it's working very good. I just don't know what magic I did because I was having 5...8 access day and now (overnight) 150...250 access day. And I don't know what I did and how to improve it.

Anna Lind

Mon, 12/17/2012 - 06:19

Hi Maikel. Maybe posting your website link here in this forum helped get the extra traffic. ;)

Ricardo Braga

Sun, 02/10/2013 - 13:28

Thank you Kevin for the blog (http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/06/18/web-design-in-four-steps/)

Albert Batlayeri

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 00:42

Im currently developing a website, named www.batlax.com , it hosted in blogger, but i wanted to move it to self-hosted website like wordpress, drupal or joomla, but i dont know which one is better to serve my site, im a newbie about javascript and html, and i have change a bit of my batlax.com html script by follow the tutorial, so i dont know which one of those host who can resembles batlax.com theme, (or; at least have a similar theme with recently batlax.com theme: with black, white and purple colours on it)

xegavega.batlax.com

Albert Batlayeri

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 01:56

Currently, I have developed a website named; www.batlax.com , it hosted in google's blogger and i have plan to move into self-hosted platform like wordpress, drupal or joomla.

But the problems is, i dont have any reference who have similarity with my batlax.com template on those three site, im a beginner about html and javascript and i dont know how to "convert" (if it say so) into those platforms.

xegavega.batlax.com