what I say

In the recent years websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even school kids have created personal websites or blogs. Blogs seem to be getting more popular these days because of the ease of blog creation.

What you need to consider before creating a website, are things such the cost, maintenance, use, web host and more importantly the purpose of the website. You’ll need to ask questions like, what I do want the visitor to do when they’re on your website? Do you want to just provide the information about your business or do you want to them make a purchase, or maybe you’re looking for their contact details.

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If you are someone who enjoys working with clients and creating designs then a online web design portfolio site would be essential for you. By design portfolios I mean a website with your best past design work. It’s extremely difficult to get clients if you don’t have any work to show, unless you willing to work for free.

Before you start designing your portfolio site on paper or in Photoshop you should try to get some feedbacks on your existing work. You can do this in a number of ways - the friend option would be a good starting point. After you get feedbacks from them you can then do the same on public places like a forum or contact someone who is already in the web design field. Things like the site layout, colour scheme, navigation, fonts etc. are some really essential parts of a website that are viewed the most. You don’t have to follow exactly what people say, but if five people tell you the same thing then chances are they’re properly right.

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