Beginner Web Design is Not Always Computer Science

How to Build a Personal or Business Website

You have access to a free web page, as well as a fertile brain brimming with ideas about what to do with it?  You have claimed a domain name and paid your hosting fees for the next twelve months. 

Your next challenge is to create and design a website that will do justice to your dreams.  A good understanding of the foundations of beginner web design will be very beneficial to you as you go through the process of building your site.

Designing a website involves equal attention to both the front and back end of the site.  The front end is what visitors will experience when they click onto your domain, and it contains the HTML and JAVASCRIPT codes that are interpreted by browsers.  It is important to do all you can to assure that the front end of your page is compatible with the several most popular browsers being used today.  You certainly would not want incompatibility to be the reason your potential visitors clicked elsewhere. 

By contrast, the back end is the "guts" of the site, containing the coding that enables the successful completion of tasks such as forwarding e-mail, updating the database, or inputting forms. 

Although it may seem obvious, both visual appeal and accurate coding are vital components, and must be given equal attention as you create your website.  An overemphasis on one to the detriment of the other will ultimately lead to frustration with a page that either looks great but does not accomplish what it says it will, or which has all the nuts in bolts in place but is too ambiguous for the end user.

As you move forward in your plans, keep in mind that the most well-designed sites are visually appealing without being overcrowded or "busy," and are easy for the end user to navigate.  

Making it a priority to write the most accurate code possible will help to ensure that your page loads quickly and that it is accessible to all users, including people with disabilities who may be using alternative means such as speech or magnified text to access the information on the screen. 

All in all, a combination of concrete knowledge including nuts and bolts of what it takes to create a web page, combined with a keen sense of what will work best for your visitors, will assure that your site accomplishes its purpose.  Just as important, concentration on these details will provide your visitors with a place they will want to visit again and again. 

If you can do what it takes to keep them coming back, your hard work in beginner web design will have been an unqualified success.

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