Web Design

by Yorgo Nestoridis

The present web­site is devoted to Web Design Basics. The con­tent is designed to help begin­ners to find an entry point into the world of Web Design start­ing from scratch. The site will tempt to answer ques­tions you may not have wanted to ask.

The site will deal with tech­ni­cal aspects namely and less with the cre­ativ­ity process which is yet another world. But then, you don’t need to be a cre­ative mind to do web design. Web design is before all a skill any­one can learn.

Web Design is:

“… the skill of design­ing pre­sen­ta­tions of con­tent (usu­ally hyper­text or hyper­me­dia) that is deliv­ered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled soft­ware like Inter­net tele­vi­sion clients, micro-blogging clients and RSS read­ers.” (Wikipedia)

When you build a Web­site, you start with an idea, then you define your goals and you write down your plan. Web design is just one ele­ment of your Web­site, an ele­ment which trans­lates your pur­pose into an effi­cient com­mu­ni­ca­tion item. Web design is the make-up, the skin. Web design is defined by the cre­ative team work­ing on a web­site whereas the cre­ative work is clearly defined so that the designer can trans­late the ideas and visions of the cre­ators using his tech­ni­cal skill.

As you see, Web design has not much to do with Cre­ativ­ity. The Cre­ative Process is about fin­ished when the order is shipped to the Web Designer for exe­cu­tion. Web Design is the exe­cu­tion of a plan, of a con­cept, of the result of mar­ket stud­ies, fea­si­bil­ity stud­ies, of cre­ative ideas.

If you are look­ing for a web designer, look in the first place for a tech­ni­cal mind who knows how to code and how to use the best tools avail­able to imple­ment your plan, your needs in graphic design.

Under Web Design Basics we will discuss:

- Web Design Elements

- Web Design Layouts

- Web Design Navigation

- Web Design Colors

- Web Design Fonts and Typography

- Web Design Graph­ics and Images

- Web Design Acces­si­bil­ity and Usability

Under Web design Style we will namely develop top­ics per­tain­ing to the cod­ing lan­guage we use to trans­late the con­cept into visual reality:

- Web Design HTML

- Web Design CSS

- Web Design XLM

Our Web Design Work­shop deliv­ers a train­ing pro­gram for begin­ners designed by Ycad­emy. The Course is apply­ing the gained knowl­edge to a Word­Press based web­site. All needed mate­ri­als are avail­able for down­load from Semiomantics.

You will find a Gallery of Graph­ics and Images under Graph­ics and Images. You may use these Images for your per­sonal use.

The Show­case will fea­ture some of our Cre­ations.

Feel free to con­tact me using the con­tact form. Also use the com­ment form on posts and pages to inter­vene on a spe­cific topic. Thank you.

• Web Design Workshop
• Web Design Graph­ics Label with Variations
• Fonts and Typography
• Web Design Work­shop 3 – Site Title
• Web Design Work­shop 2

• gia­cometti
• gia­cometti workshop
• best use of typog­ra­phy web site design
• exhi­bi­tions based on ele­ments of design
• alberto gia­cometti expozition
• gia­cometti how to
• gia­cometti exhibition
• the gia­cometti variations
• exhi­bi­tion web­site design
• allinurl:web-design/comment-page

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Tags: Web Design Accessibility and Usability, Web Design Colors, Web Design CSS, Web Design Elements, Web Design Fonts and Typography, Web Design Graphics and Images, Web Design HTML, Web Design Layouts, Web Design Navigation, Web Design Showcase, Web Design Style, Web Design Workshop, Web Design XLM, Web Design XML, Yorgo Nestoridis

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