Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Building dreams takes somes nights to sleep

It's a fallacy that you will build your website in one night and it will be your favorite for life.  Odds are, if you build a website in only one night, you will find some way to improve it.  No matter how good you get at it, your great ideas aren't going to come on until you've had some time to look at it in whole.

A good way to circumvent that, however, is to draw it out first.  It sounds silly, but drawing your website out on notebook paper first makes a big difference and makes it a lot easier.  Think templates.  Where do you want what modules and what do they say.  Get notebook paper, assume the whole page is your webpage.  Will your banner be at the top on the left?  If so draw it there.  See how it looks and add your menu bar.  Where does it look best?  Visualize and put it there.  Put in content, even if it is written words.  Seeing what you plan to write down, next to the menu bar and widgets you plan to have will help in finishing the design layout of your site.  When you are happy with the way it looks on paper, make it your duty to copy it exactly in digital form.  Even with a WYSIWYG editor it should be completely possible.  With the forethought and planning you expended in making quality webpages your end product will be dreamy and creamy.  People will love it if you love it, that's general rule of thumb.  So keep thinking like that if you want your website to be a superstar or popular.  That is the goal to your domain being a success.  Good work! 

Just remember, even drawn out, it's good to give it a few days before you attempt to produce your art for the world.

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