How to create an effective layout for your website

Key quotes:

• "Once created, your value proposition will play a role in your keyword strategy (section 4), sitemap (section 5), navigation (section 6) and your homepage design (section 8) as well as informing site-wide design and copy writing."
• "HubSpotMoz The role of the sitemap in effective website design is to show which pages will be built and where they will live within the site."
• "Users of sliders often put alternate versions of their supposed value proposition, company news or product launches in them, none of which tackle the real objective of getting a first time visitor to say ‘Hey, I’m in the right place’, and, guess what, those things are what the other pages of the site are for anyway."

Key quotes:

• "It involves brining life to the picture the client has in his mind with the help of images, colors, typography, navigation, layout, structure of the website and creating a user interface."
• "The style of font is an important element in a web design as it conveys the website’s purpose to the audience effectively."
• "Just like an attractive web design is necessary to lure visitors; a user-friendly design is the element that retains the visitors and helps them convert."
• "It keeps the website free from graphics and distractions and helps the user focus on the necessary product information in the webpage."
• "An excellent web design creates a good user experience and encourages the visitor to stay in the website."
• "An excellent website design will have a clean layout and seamless navigation enabling the user to understand the information in it."

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• "For this you need to be aware of the different layout options available in HTML/CSS and which of those is the right fit for your website design."
• "w3schools has a rather neat definition: “Responsive Web Design is about using HTML and CSS to automatically resize, hide, shrink, or enlarge, a website, to make it look good on all devices (desktops, tablets, and phones).” Now, if you want to make sure that your website is responsive and looks good on all kinds of devices then you can do something like the code below."
• "Add the following <meta> element to all your web pages: Modify the CSS to add a media query: This basically makes the website display as a single column for devices with resolution smaller than 800px (most tablets and all smartphones)."
• "CSS Flexbox makes it quite simple to design flexible responsive layout for websites."
• "Going by the example above, you can design a layout of your website using the CSS Grid as follows."
• "Comparing this with the earlier ways (the rigid structure of the tables, the cumbersome floats and the multi-level hierarchy of the flexbox), we can see how easy the CSS Grid has made designing a layout!."

Key quotes:

• "Newlineinfo, a professional web design and development company, will guarantee that your site is built efficiently, fulfills the purpose, and offers value to your target audience."
• "With the user flow and the conversion plan in mind, we create a sitemap."
• "Having a clear sitemap is the backbone to creating the right type of content for your website that yields positive results."
• "Depending on the sitemap, page title, keywords you wish to target, headlines, and body copy, the created content should be easy for the users to comprehend quickly."
• "Wireframes make it easier for you to plan the layout of the website according to how you want your user to process the information."
• "Though clients may feel that the wireframes are unnecessary, it serve as a bridge to ensure smooth transition from content to design that give results."

Key quotes:

• "It’s essential to get to know your website design clients by asking questions that will tell you about their business."
• "Basically, wireframes should define these main elements: You can’t start your website without knowing where things go."
• "Style tiles are based on visual preference discussions with the client The usual elements consist of the logo, typography, colors and tone of voice."
• "It will help you make choices about how to use the elements of design in a way that the client will understand."
• "With a style tile, you are able to maintain a look and feel by creating a set of rules which the design follows."
• "Instead of composing your full designed website in a certain style, now you can update your style tiles with the client’s requests in a quick and efficient way."

Transcript: Hey guys so this is gonna be a tutorial on how to make Photoshop layout for your website and as you can see right here I designed my website completely in Photoshop and then I went over here and you can see I turned into a workable webpage so it's a pretty handy way to design your webpage if you want something a little bit more artsy and not so commercial first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna explain how my layout works if you're not into web design just kind of like run down the rough basics if you already are aware of some of this stuff feel free to skip ahead towards the good stuff but right here you can see I'm gonna code this is an iframe and it holds my recent Twitter activity right here so this is an iframe it basically what it is it's a webpage that's kind of stuck inside of a frame so just imagine like a box and your web page is gonna show in that box and usually you can have like scroll bars here if you want to completely keep it in the box I turned off scroll... See more →