What kind of Designing Consistency Challenges are Faced When You Start Designing Any Website?

Every designing choice that you choose is going to have significant influence on every online website viewers in every one or the other ways. How you choose to design your website defines how long you can keep your viewers intact. Every time its people who choose to visit your website for the first time, will definitely leave a huge impact on your designing styles that will further help you decide your designing styles. However,  viewer's response towards your website designing style is what makes you renowned among other brands that lets you define your organization and years of achievement.

Our next step defines various checklists that might affect your web designing styles. One way to achieve it is by keeping a proper track on whether websites that users view are actually consistent enough to engage them for a long time?  Taking a step towards  a proper step to design any website will surely  benefit your process of designing styles.

Here you can have a look on few criteria that you should consider while maintaining designing consistencies:

•    Typographic consistency level.
•    Vertical consistency rhythm.
•    Typographic alignment consistency.
•    Typeface consistency.
•     Typographic navigation procedure across the web page.
•    Graphical consistency patterns.
•    Convey a consistent information through various website  images.
•    Color matching patterns.
•     Image texture consistencies.
•    Maintaing a single image size across the website efficiently.
•    Colour consistency level across your whole webpage.
•    Proper Icon and button consistency placing methods.
•    Initiating same icon across the webpage.

Above are few points that every web designer should consider while designing any website.

What kind of consistency challenges are associated while designing your website?

Well, maintaining your web designing  consistency is extremely an important factor to be taken into consideration to avoid any kind of consistency issues by initiating users to understand about your website goals. Almost half of the web designer  fails to develop a professional  web designing consistency level that is highly important for attracting more and more online viewers to promote your website as well as for promoting your brand power. So what kind of consistency challenges you can face in terms of web designing process?

Here are key points:

•    Loosing brand identity easily
It's quite an usual thing that most of the viewers might get distracted from any website page that they are viewing. One of the key reasons for this is, sudden changes that are made into your designing styles for your websites to match the current market trends and as a result it often leads to loosing your brand name.


Solution: One way to avoid this is: it should be
kept in mind for every web developers that they  
should constantly look for how other brands, how
they are maintaining their designing consistency
level to promote their brands and websites.

•    Difficult to maintain a consistent website designs
To acquire all the web designing consistency features, it is necessary to keep your website contents updated everytime to increase the traffic of your website in various search engines.

Solution: Such challenge can easily be overcome by working with wide range of web designing styling guides. But yes this is also true that frequent website content monitoring process can be highly beneficial for  maintaining any website's consistency level.

•    Working with fresh web designing patterns

Maintaining high quality content on your website can sometimes be a challenging task. Designing consistent websites plays a vital role for promotion of your newly developed  brands. Adding new events and fresh designing styles will initiate a unique platform for every viewers to stay on your website for a long time.

Steps to enable a high web designing consistency rates:

•    Distinct and Consistent Typography

•    Following a simple designing pattern
•    Enhanced visual treatment

Why designing consistency is important for developers?

•    To avoid confusion
•    To engage more and more viewers on your website
•    For branding purpose
•    Increasing your returns


Types of designing consistencies:
•    Internal Designing Consistency

Within internal web designing consistency, there are few methods to be included:

Color
Color consistencies for your website designing throughout your website plays a vital role.

Layout grid and navigational structure
Every web designer should follow a proper layout patterns as well as proper navigational process throughout your website designing patterns.

Working with proepr background elements
Attaching Advance Web logos
Working with advance and enhanced web logos defines high website designing consistency levels of website. Working with proper icons help users learn about your website easily.   

•    External Designing Consistency.

External Designing Consistency deals with the following designing rules:





1.    User interface elements.
2.    Layouts.
3.    Links.

Creating style guides:

•It describes regarding advance web designing consistency guidelines and standards for different types of products to ensure high designing consistency rates of your websites.

•Offers a deep understanding of basic templates, style sheets, designing rules and various designing methods.

•Every web designer should concentrate on reading an entire style guide document before working on any website projects.

Clarity
 
Clarity is another consistency feature that plays a vital role in designing your website with high consistency level. Here are few facts that you should take into your consideration in terms of consistency rates of your web designing styles:

•    Website's screen information must be short and relevant.
•    Should be able to convey users about various products easily.
•    Apply  minimum keystroke effort on your websites.
•    Obtain relevant inputs for designing any website
•    Should be easy to understand your website content.

Consistency in the Cross-Channel Experience

Users often follows a Cross-Channel User Experience process that are identified under four key elements of a usable cross-channel experience:

•Consistency.
•Seamless.
•Availability of designing materials.
•Context Specific.

Author Biography:
With the promising and effective experience Samuel Dawson has contributed a lot in website design and develpment industry. He has been a great developer who loves to convert website to WordPress files  in Rochester, USA. He shared a significant content above on the visual consistencies that are faced during web designing.

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Tread Carefully When Choosing A Content Management Solution For Your Business

Planning a company’s website strategy can be a tough. If you’re trying to decide on a content management system as the foundation to your organisation’s online presence, you’ve probably trawled through many possible options.

So what features are important? What CMS is right for your needs? Here’s some ideas to point you in the right direction:

What Are Your Goals?
How much content are you going to be publishing? What is the strategy for getting that content in front of your potential customers? If you’re leaving publication in the hands of your staff, then you need to consider ease of use. If you’re employing an outside company to help you, you need to consider the industry standard options. Once you’ve picked a CMS, you’re going to find it a real headache to change course if the feature set doesn’t allow for future expansion, or doesn’t offer the ease of use you require from day one.

Decide On A Budget
Open source software will offer huge savings over a proprietary system. You’ll have a wider range of customisation options and the opportunity to tailor every detail to your own needs. Open source solutions like Wordpress also allow you to tap into a huge pool of developer options, as this type of open source solution is hugely popular with a massive user base. On the flip side, a paid-for enterprise solution will likely be less customisable and cost more in terms of both monthly outlay and technical development, but will come with very strong security features and dedicated support staff for more complex applications.

Check Out The Competition
If large corporate organisations are using a particular CMS with a high frequency, it’s a good sign it’s a safe option. You need to know that your solution will be supported for years to come and that it has an active user base, or you could be left in the dark if it falls out of favour with developers and designers.

Behind The Scenes
Before you dive in and sign up for a CMS, you need to understand that the hosting required may differ in terms of software requirements and ease of set up. Not every CMS will work with every type of programming language, especially where databases are concerned. You need to make some investigations about this before you enter into a long contract with your hosting company.

Can You Use The CMS For Marketing Campaigns?
CMS systems from companies like Siteglide feature complex and comprehensive tools for managing your marketing campaigns. For more information please refer to : http://www.siteglide.com. If you need the ability to send emails, monitor your results and manage secure areas and ecommerce, then you might be better signing up for a paid-for, enterprise style service.

Can You Migrate?
It shouldn’t be a huge issue, but it’s worth making some checks to determine if your current content can be easily migrated and organised on the new CMS. This could be a potential headache that leaves you with unacceptable amounts of downtime and chaos.

Choosing a CMS for your business is a process that requires some careful planning and consideration. Check the competition, weigh up the available options, and only make a decision after you’ve checked out all of the options.

Wendy Lin is a freelance writer who specialises in guest blogging. She is a CIO of 2 businesses and is also a watercolour painter.

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New Choices for Domain Names for Your Website

In the spring of 2014 a vast range of new domain name extensions are going to open up, with industry specific extensions becoming available after the dot, such as .photography, .london and .wedding.

It's likely that in time what's after the dot could become as important as what's before the dot and it allows for the whole of your domain name to have meaning.  Some of the most popular domain extensions that will be available are:

• .photography
• .london
• .web
• .services
• .ltd
• .blog
• .hotels
• .football
• .wedding
• .training
• .media
• .holiday

The Business Week article - New Domain Names are in the Works has more information on the latest domain names.

This gives you a wealth of extra choice in deciding what you want to name your website and it's likely that these extensions will be become important for SEO (appearing high with search engines) too.

Given that there's more choice in what to call your website, how do you go about deciding on your domain name?  The infographic gives some suggestions that are important to consider when deciding what to name it, both from a user-friendliness perspective and from an SEO perspective, whether you're looking to launch your website locally, nationally or internationally.

The "New choices for domain names for your website" infographic was designed by Allison Carmichael at Indigoextra Ltd, a creative multilingual web design and SEO company.  Allison has 2 boys and created the infographic to compare naming a new baby with choosing the name of your website.  It wouldn't surprise me if people put as much thought into both!

Allison lives in Montpellier, South France and is a film fanatic of all genres (although there's only a few French films she likes) and is home educating her two boys.  For work, Allison is the Art Director of Indigoextra Ltd and runs the graphic design team.

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