I too took Intro to Web Design, but greatly enjoyed and found a love in coding. Actually I had already experienced coding before, but had no idea what it was called. My days of tinkering with all the myspace themes came back to me. I still run into road blocks, but I push them with google searches and tutorials. I even reach out to past classmates asking about area's I remember them doing marvelous in. I currently continue to do projects in web design outside of school and work with my cousin.
How do you get started with designing a website?
- I get an idea what my client wants if I am designing for others. I talk it over with the client, and my cousin. We come up with a plan and sketch it out. Building it is always different, but the challenges make it fun.
What factors do you consider before designing a website?
- I consider how I want to build the website... what will be better based on the needs of the client. Such as using Wordpress vs. HTML... am I going to incorporate boot strap? What plug-ins will I need? Do I know how to build everything.. if not who can I reach out to help? I am currently building a contact list to find my way around on things I can't seem to accomplish on my own ... yet.
Where do you look for layouts and type?
- I ask the client to pull up competitors websites that they like. I do my own research on clients websites and look for what I think works and doesn't work - according to that particular business. For instance, a recent client has started an acupuncture business. Some of the companies had very plain formatted websites - that essentially looked like someone slapped up the basics. I wanted to make hers more modern, neutral colors.. but not so neutral you would skip the site. This helped me have an idea of what to do with her page.
Is there anything else important to consider?
Actually, I am not sure. Every site so far that I have worked on has had different expectations and aspects that needed to be thought out. I suppose just to be ready to challenged with each new project. One of the last things I didn't think of but my cousin did was the maintenance/ up-keep. We haven't fully figured this out.. but even though we do a website and viola (eventually its done), there is still an up-keep that has to be maintained. Glitches to look for. I have decided to try and not drive myself mad over the teeny tiny things that I played with for hours.. and find I don't like later on. The project never gets done that way. Then again, art is never fully finished I suppose (to the artist).
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