It is really simple designing a website. Just
open Microsoft Word or FrontPage select your stuff and save as
HTML and the web page is ready! By using web authoring tools like
FrontPage or save HTML from Microsoft Word, anybody can create
a quick website, but what about the design part? The aesthetics?
The appeal? The web site ranking? The integration?
It is here that the question for a step-wise
approach to professional website design arises. There must be
some path for website designer to follow, which gives his client
the best-designed website in the shortest possible time.
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Step-by-step
Therefore, this step-wise approach facilitates:
Design a website, that keeps in mind all
the basic elements like client's corporate colors, logos &
symbos, product photograph gallery, etc.
Optimization of graphic images so as to
reduce size of a page and thus enable it to load fast.
Converting a graphically designed page to
web format (HTML), so it can be upload on internet.
Providing dynamic web page content by integrating
programming languages to link databases.
What are these steps?
Design the Home Page and Inside Pages, using
Photo Editing software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photopaint,
Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc..
Optimize & Dice the pages using software
like Adobe Image Ready or Macromedia Firework..
Save as HTML through the Photo Editing software
and provide link using web-authoring tools like Microsoft Front
Page, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash MX.
Integrate programming languages like JavaScript,
VBScript, Java Applets, Flash ActionScript, CGI, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion,
PHP, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET to link with databases like Microsoft
SQL, Oracle, Microsoft Access and XML.
