Web designing has direct link to visual aspect of a web site. Effective web design is necessary to communicate ideas effectively.
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Web desinging is subset of web development. However these terms are used interchangeably.
Key Points
Design Plan should include the following:
Details about information architecture.
Planned structure of site.
A site map of pages
Wireframe
Wireframe refers to a visual guide to appearance of web pages. It helps to define structre of web site, linking between web pages and layout of visual elements.
Following things are included in a wireframe:
Boxes of primary graphical elements
Placement of headlines and sub headings
Simple layout structure
Calls to action
Text blocks
Wireframe can be created using program like Visio but you can also use a pen and paper.
Web Designing Tools
Here is the list of tools that can be used to make effective web designs:
Coda 2
Coda 2 is a powerful web development & designing tool, comes with better user interface, text editing, file management, clips, sites, design and better Mysql support.OmniGraffle
OmmniGraffle is mainly used for wireframing. The downside of this tool is that It doesnot have interactive prototyping and It is available only for Mac.Pen and Paper
Pen and paper can be used to draw the appearance of the how the web site will look like.Vim
Vim is great web desiging tool.It supports full customizable auto-intending of code, multiple buffers for storing cut/copied code, and recording of actions for automated repetition.
