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Looking to find work in website design? Well first of all: Nice choice. There’s a ton of work out there in that field, so there’ll always be money coming in as long as you know how to design good, professional looking websites. So… How exactly do you do that? Read on… Never Slack Any website could be your calling card for the next job, so don’t offer to do a site for a friend at half cost and then give them something lazy and weak. Every site should be your best work, no exceptions, and no matter what you’re being paid. One bad site is all it takes to ruin your reputation. Be Clean It’s tempting to want to stuff a site with every single feature and option and doodad and gimmick and this and that that you can, but please, resist the urge. If your sites are loaded with bells and whistles, but impossible to navigate, then you’re probably not going to get much in the way of returning clients. Nobody wants to confuse their visitors. Have Fun Develop a style that’s uniquely your own. Yeah, you want to exercise some degree of restraint when putting in embedded media and interactive content and so on, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give each site a cool color scheme, or that you can’t develop a really neat, eye-popping look for each one. Practice self-discipline, but don’t bore yourself to death, either. Study Art In particular, you want to study interior design and comic books. Okay, you know why you need to study interior design; to learn how color schemes work, but why comic books? Well, look at the site you’re reading right now. It’s actually composed of a number of parts, each one serving its own purpose, but they all work together to form the whole. You’ll find this skill mastered in the work of Osamu Tezuka, Will Eisner and on the pages of Tin Tin. These comics are masterful at showing you how to lead the eye from one piece of a page to the next. An exclusive look at the basics of website design now in our complete Website Design Software overview on http://www.websitedesignsoftware.org.uk
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