A tryst with CSS

Hi All,

Well I am going to share my experience regarding my attempt to create a website.

I was quite enthusiastic as it was my first experience with CSS and  initially I have decided to apply a lot of font colors and style. But when I finally completed the home page I, myself did not like it. Then I have googled about CSS and thanks to my mentors, who helped me in learning the basic things.

I should mention about one of the many terms, which attracted my attention. It is "Clean Designing".

I realized that clean designing means, designing your website in such a way that it should convey the message to the user in just first few seconds. In other word the user should be able to find out what he is looking for.

Design should make user comfortable enough to go through the website , and it should help him in finding his required information but should not divert the attention on unnecessary things.

As we see in common user point of view, if we are visiting any website for the first time we do not spend so much time there if we do not find the desired content immediately.

We should mind few things while creating a website like :

* What exactly the user want from this website.

* How he expects the information to be.

So , in my opinion the visitor should be able to find out the desired information in minutes.

If he feels it is good then he can even re-visit the site.

Few more important points which I have learned.

* In  corporate website there should not be many colors.

* It would be better not to have more than 2 primary colors.

* Content should be legible and short and clear. (Here clear means, it should convey the meaning properly)

* The user should be able to find the required information immediately as soon as he enters into the website.

* Data should be properly divided into sections.

*Related things should be grouped in using tabs etc.

For example, if it is a site regarding Indian tourism, the visitor expects the content should be presented region wise.

* The color theme also needs to match with the purpose of the site.

For example if the site is all about nature and wild life, then the color should not be red, it would be better to use green color.

* Important thing is, we should design the site in a such a way that we should force/guide the visitor to look or go through a particular section which we want(we can persuade the user by applying different colors and design to the particular section).