an insight into web design for business and site owners

What are wireframes?

Wireframing is the art of creating an outlined prototype or storyboard of a website purely to illustrate placement, alignment and hierarchy. It comes into play just before the design phase and focuses on the content and site goals rather than design so there are no distractions when it comes to deciding on the placement of the information. It’s also a great way of highlighting any potential problems before getting to the design, where it might be harder to change elements.

Visually it will represent only the bare bones of the site. There will be no graphics whatsoever just like the wireframe represented on the left.

The wireframe should be preceded by a detailed sitemap which outlines every page so it’s easy to visualise the user’s journey through the site.

Used together the sitemap and wireframe are the perfect tools in planning out a new website or redesign and will make the design and build processes much smoother. Continue reading »

The background:

Lorem ipsum is the name given to the filler text used in the digital and print media industries. It originates from a piece of classical Latin literature from 45BC but the text you may see used nowadays has been used since the 1500s.

Over time there has been many variations on the traditional Lorum Ipsum text, some with hidden humour, others with made up words. But the traditional text uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words as well as standard sentence structures. Continue reading »

Web design and many closely associated areas of expertise can be complex subjects for the uninitiated and unsuspecting business owner. So as the title might suggest, this blog aims to dispel the myths and offer some explanation to the processes and jargon that surrounds the wonderful world of web design.

There will be articles exploring everything from the importance of design, good copy, user experience and Twitter, to simply explaining what ‘branding’ is and why it is important.

Not only this, but there will also be offerings of advice and guidance to those who have a shiny new website and know not what to do with it. Your website’s life starts at upload but it will only grow and achieve what you want it to achieve if you love, nurture and encourage it, much like a child of your own.

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