Can a beginner design a website?
Web design is an important step in web development as it impacts how the users recognize the brand. Web design is a major factor in getting more leads to the website. Users enter the website and decide to either stay or leave it within a few seconds. So, a website should attract users within these seconds by providing a good web design.
So are you interested and concerned about designing a website as a beginner? With a creative mind, you can start your career from here. This article helps you how and from where to start your career in web designing.
Start with Basic
As a beginner, you might get discouraged while doing your first design project. So choose something simple like a landing page or blog. You can work on complicated websites like e-commerce once you gain enough experience. Creating designs from blog templates is an effective way to start. Changes can be made to the template and this gives you a basic idea of how designing is done and can follow these methods to start a fresh design from scratch in the future. Learning can be made easier with this.
Get inspiration from other designers
You can seek inspiration from other designer’s work and save or bookmark your favorite sites for your design reference. You can learn from their designs which will be a help for your career growth. Many platforms like Pinterest can be referred to for various design works on posters, blogs, and illustrations published by various designers. There are several designers and hashtags related to it on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Follow them to learn the latest design trends and new ideas.
Expertise in UI/UX design
UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) design is an important component of an effective website design. UX design focuses on the overall user experience to enhance satisfaction among the users. Meanwhile, UI design focuses on the look and functioning of interactive elements such as buttons, icons, and typography. A visually attractive and user-friendly website can be designed with a mix of UI and UX design.
A website must be easily accessible to all kinds of users including the disabled ones. Thus you have to focus on the design layout, color schemes, typography, and imagery to provide a visually appealing interface to the users. Navigation must be simple and provide clear calls to action to improve the user experience.
Knowledge in Web design SEO
Even if you create a visually appealing website design, it will be of no use if your website is not discoverable by search engines. Thus SEO has a huge role in web design for ranking and reaching your target audience. An SEO-friendly website design includes proper meta tags, keywords, and optimized images with alt tags to rank well and reach the target audience.
Steps to design a website
Following these steps can help you start a web design project and enhance your web design skills.
Choose a platform
Planning design
Create high-quality content
Designing the website
Website launch
You have to choose a suitable platform that matches your requirements before stepping into design. It can be WordPress, Wix, or Shopify.
Plan on the design to be done after selecting an appropriate platform. Planning includes choosing the color theme, font, layout, etc. based on the website's look to be made.
Create high-quality content relevant to your target audience considering their needs, thus the content can be made effectively. Content can be images, videos, graphics, or icons that are visually enhancing and represent the written content.
Install themes and plugins in the selected platform and start building the website. Beginners can easily build a website even without coding with the help of drag-and-drop editors available on website builders.
Once the website is designed and developed, the next step is to test the website to ensure proper functioning and can be launched.
It might be a challenge to design a website at first, but success awaits you with proper learning and experience. So continue to learn and try harder to improve your design skills resulting you with successful career growth.
