A detailed guide to web design and web development

Posted by Ricky Legros on June 7th, 2019

In the fast-moving world of technology, website designing is a vital service offered by many companies to their clients in Singapore. In the competitive market structure, it has become mandatory for any company in Singapore or any other country to have its own website so as to take their business to the next height.

In the dense market structure of competitors, it has become a tough job to design a website that can hold the attention of customers, engage him and let him spent time on the website. Besides, web development must be done in a manner that could ultimately help the company make its business grow within a short span of time. The web designing company includes web designers who are performing the most creative work of designing web pages with the help of web designing languages like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop, etc.

As the website of your company available online tells customers about the company’s product and service, that’s why designing the website is of utmost importance. You should also keep a keen eye to every minor detail involved in the official website of the company.

Principles to web design

• Balance

Creating a balanced layout is an important responsibility of professional website builders. Web designing consists of heavy and light elements. Here heavy means large and dark colours and light identifies small and light colours. The use of the correct proportion of both dark and light colour is quite important to achieve a balanced web design.

• Consistency

It is a critical web design principle that is also known as repetition or rhythm. A clean and consistent navigation procedure on the website allows the best experience to the users who visit the website of the company.

• Contrast in colour

When you hear of the word contrast you will immediately relate it to colour. Though the principle of colour is not limited to only colour, Contrast actually helps the user to differentiate the different types of elements loaded in a webpage. The website design of almost all company website commonly comes with a design where the page has a header at the top of the page, the body or content and then the footer; Thus, helping the customer or the website visitor differentiate one object from another. The web builder takes the help of different texture shapes and size to hold the customers' attention to a certain section of the website.

• Emphasis

Emphasis as the word suggests itself is a designing principle that is used to let the customer’s attention at a particular portion of the webpage that is the important element in the website. One thing that a designer should keep in mind is, he should know the particular portion of the website that must gain the maximum attention of the visitor. But if he keeps on giving emphasis to almost everything included in the website, he might end up emphasizing nothing.

• Unity

 Unity in professional web design is a term that shows the relationship between different parts of the website layout and as a whole the composition of the entire page. Here you can refer to gestalt theory; according to which unity is all about how the human brain arranges the visual information by grouping the similar elements in certain categories.

Web development: A detailed view

Web development is a step forward to the process of web designing. After the design is made by the designer, web developers or commonly known as programmers take the design created and transform it into a completely functioning website. The design created by the web designer is actually a non-interactive picture. The next step involves the role of a programmer who differentiates the design into different components. After that programming language like HTML or PHP is used to create various webpage included in the website. Content management system like word press is also used by advanced web developers to allow clients an easy way of maintaining and updating the websites. A number of interactive elements are used by the developer to convert a static layout into a dynamic website using interactive elements like buttons, active links, and content and image sliders.

Conclusion

 The above-written description of web design and development in Singapore will help you attain the basic knowledge about what the terms actually mean and how effective it is.