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Web Design Tips: Visual Design
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your website is to look at other sites to help you define the style you want. You should collect a list of websites
and note what you like about each one. As you look at each site, here are the specific elements to look at. |
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Colour Scheme
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Overall Design Style
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Backgrounds & Top Banners
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Buttons, Icons, Dividers & Other Graphics
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Page Layouts: Sections & Columns
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Organization: How Content is Grouped
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Navigation Menu(s)
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Headings, Subheadings & Font Styles
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Web Design Tips: Text
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You might
not think that the words you choose have an impact on the design of a website but they most certainly do! If you
have a lot of text content, it will impact how your website looks. For example, if you want a clean, minimalist
looking site, it will need to have less text to achieve that. If you want the WOW factor, exciting text both in
words and visual enhancement of those words (graphics) will be key factors.
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Simple, Effective Page Names
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Catchy Visual Section Headlines
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Purposeful Subheadings
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Short Paragraphs of text
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Pull Quotes
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Bulleted Lists
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