20 Tips to Get a Perfect Website Layout!
09 Feb 2017

Getting your hands on a perfect website does not come just like that. One will need to ensure quite a few things if the aim is to get everyone by surprise and enjoy the journey to success with the help of a great web design. If operating in Dubai, one will need to consider many factors, i.e., the chic environments, the advancements in technology, and the influx of business from all over the world that has added many flavors to these markets.

Following are some tips that will enable you to make the perfect blend of ideas and get hands with the website designs:

 

1. Put your thoughts on paper first:

Because we are so busy, our mind is not in the same state always. An idea may pop up, and before we enter the next hour, we may forget it. Therefore a best practice would be to jot everything down that comes your way so that you don't forget the coolest ideas. Professionals working in highly reputable web designing companies in Dubai follow the same practices.

 

2. Start sketching a top-level framework:

After drafting your ideas, you may start sketching them. Experts know this phase as wire-framing. This will allow you to decide on the looks and know which one of them may benefit you and to what extent. You may then plan to include or exclude some based on your needs.

 

3. Add a grid to your PSD:

Don't work in a random way; you may use the grid approach while using Photoshop. This will help you in the layout at the latter stages.

 

4. Choose your typography:

To add weight to your web design, you will need to come up with the best typographies. If you ignore this critical area, you may end up on a confusing or less appealing website.

 

5. Select your color theme:

Every color is beautiful; you can add extra to the extraordinary by choosing the right colors for your website. Once you have decided on the final colors, you must not then deviate from them.

 

6. Divide the layout:

Break the layout into sections and segments; each and every segment of your website will tell a unique story to the viewer; you cannot through things on your webpage with a random passion.

 

7. Rethink the established:

If you think that you are done, then this would mean that you were rushing out on everything. Not so fast, mate; the party has just begun. You will need to revisit all the phases and see what it is that you can add to make things further appealing as far as your design patterns are concerned. You will not be competing with laymen. Your competitors out there will make things difficult for you to achieve for sure.

 

8. Challenge yourself:

You cannot always fall or go for inspiration from other sources. It must be you who should be able to come up with something new. Challenge yourself and come up with something appealing; let others be inspired by your work this time.

 

9. Pay attention to the details:

Understand the industry, your target audience, and markets. You must pay attention to the details and should be aware of what is actually required from you.

 

10. Treat every component as if it could be presented to a design contest:

Treat each and every effort as if it is going to be used to contest others' work. The margin for errors shall be trimmed by you to a minimum.

 

11. Sharpen your work:

Remove blurry edges or images that are of low quality. If their pixels are going to break in real time scenario when your website is live, your viewers may not appreciate it, and they may not see it professionally.

 

12. Tidy up your PSDs:

We tend to make, revert, change, and make again, and this process may clutter the PSDs on which we may be working. Once you have got your hands on the final outcomes, you might as well tidy up things and remove all the unwanted elements that may have been excluded by you while designing the page.

 

13. Design the best-case scenario but prepare for the worst:

The battle between good design, content, technical and conceptual issues is not a new one. You must work while focusing on the ideal scenario; however, you must come up with designs that may work in worse scenarios as well. Excuses are not appreciated in chic markets like those of Dubai.

 

14. Obsess the design until you hate it:

Once you have prepared your design, you may place it everywhere, i.e., you make it your desktop wallpaper, your Facebook page banner, and everywhere. Spread it as much as you can so that you can see it everywhere until you start hating it. Once things start to happen and you start hating them, you will see the weak links, and this will allow you to pick those hidden weak areas that may have been missed by you while you were in love with your efforts.

 

15. Avoid spending too much time on a concept before sharing it with the client:

This approach will get you carried away, and spending too much time will take you to zones where you will start finalizing things. Once you have concluded everything and will share it with the client, he may have some reservations, and he/she may want some tweaks from you. This may cause irritation, and you may not be very keen or creative because of your unwillingness to make changes. The best approach here would be to ensure that you involve the client in each and every phase so that you get instant feedback, if there is any.

 

16. Be your developer's best friend:

As mentioned earlier, you will need to involve all those that are associated with this critical project. Web developers are very creative, and if you are among those who keep a close association with them, then they will find it easy to share their views with you without hesitations.

 

17. Presentations: explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old:

Give complete insight to your clients, explain and explain everything in a way as if you are explaining to a kid. The better and clearer the picture would be, the easy it will be for them to understand and add your thoughts.

 

18. Love each of your ideas but don't get too attached to them:

Any idea or every idea that may come your way may fascinate you; you may like them but don't fall in love with them because by doing so, you may find it hard to think of a better one.

 

19. Track down your design during the development process:

You must not let go of things; maintain a stronger grip all the time while designing the website layout. Match what you have created with the sketches and drafts that were made by you initially, as this will allow you to see whether you are on track or not. In case you find things deviated from the original plans, you may shape them and bring them back on track.

 

20. Show your work in progress:

Don't sit on your work progress for long; share it every now and then with the concerned ones, and reverting and pulling back will become easy for you. This approach, in addition, will enable you to keep the interest of clients engaged, and they will not panic because they will see that work is in progress on their allocated tasks.

In case the workload on you is too high and, despite trying hard, you are finding it difficult to give some time to your ideas and design, then you might as well get in touch with our professional web designers in Dubai and share some of the workloads with them by outsourcing it to them.

Contact us for further information.

 

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