At this point, you’ve an idea of what you want your website to be…
John Mignano
You know what you will be selling on your website.
You’ve chosen to make a sales, retail, or marketing website, so the rest of this article will be dedicated to you…
Maybe you’re considering investing in a high quality web designer and an even higher quality web developer?
You will need all of the help you can get in making your own web application or informational business website.
Designing a website is actually a very simple process, even if you have never done such a project in the past.
You really have two choices at this point, as far as the website design is concerned.
Build the site yourself or hire someone else to do the heavy lifting for you.
Building the site from scratch by yourself is going to be the more cost effective solution…
What if you have no prior experience or you need your website up as soon as possible?
Well, hiring a professional may be your better option.
No matter which route you take, there are a few tips you need to consider if you want to make sure that your website looks exactly as you want it to.
Whether you’re building your business website yourself or…
If you have hired someone to do it, you need to make a template for how you want your site to look.
If design is not your thing, there are plenty of resources out there that can help you get started.
Take a look at websites like CSS Beauty, Design Snack, and Smashing Magazine for all of the inspiration that you could ever possibly need.
These sites highlight some of the best in web design and are perfect for anyone who is having a difficult time coming up with some ideas.
When you have settled on a basic web design for your business website…
You need to a website color scheme that would work well with what you’re wanting to accomplish.
A sales website, for example, will make use of whitespace and only a basic palette of three or four colors so as not to be too hard on the viewer’s eyes.
On the other hand, a marketing website will use big blocks of text with effective highlighted words.
Often the site makes use of brilliant colors like reds, blues, and yellows to attract the reader’s eye to important points.
What if you’re having trouble coming up with colors?
Ccheck out sites like ColorBlender and colordb to help you choose the perfect palette for your site.
Once the basic template and color scheme have been decided on, you need to make the decision to build your site yourself or hire someone else to do it.
If you hire someone, all you have to do is pay them the appropriate amount and submit your early designs and color choices.
The web designers will do the rest and you’ll pay them the full amount on completion of the project.
Go ahead and skip to step three if you’re planning to take the web designer route. If you want to go it alone keep reading…
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