Designing a Website is much like starting a business or even starting a family. You must plan before you begin. If you don’t plan out before you begin it is bound to be unsuccessful or might even fail. First of all you need to think about the purpose of the Website and what you want o accomplish with it. If it is to entertain, then you want to make sure it is entertaining. You must gather all the information you can about the company and their purpose for the company and the site. Organizing the information into some order of priority is helpful to starting the planning process.

You also need to determine who the audience is and plan accordingly. You should map out the site and make sketches and wireframes before attempting to put anything on the computer. You may want to check with the client every once in a while to touch base with them on what you have so far.

The last step should be to arrange the information and design it in such a way that it blends, contrasts, and compliments the other elements on the page. The page should be visually appealing to the audience as well as be user friendly and easy to navigate.

This has helped me because I often look at the information and just begin to put it on a page and move it around until it is pleasing and it makes the most sense. I can see the importance of planning out the whole thing start to finish before beginning any designing.

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