Software Tools

Designing website require software tools as well. The software itself we could found it out there, starting from the open source into software that worth of hundreds of dollars.

I’d like to try to discuss the basic software tools we could use to design website. Although the software I used might be difference with yours, but at least it got the same function. Lets start it one by one as below:
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Cookies and web effectiveness

Managing cookies could impact on your site effectiveness. Rather than a tasty treat stored in a jar on the kitchen counter, cookies on the Internet refer to bits of information written, by the visited site with the help of the browser, to a file on the user’s computer. These bits of information allow the site to manage user preferences, keep track of items placed in a shopping cart, or perform other activities that often relate to maintaining state across more than one Web page. State is a record of current choices, settings, or other information that traditionally cannot be passed from one Web page to another.

The Web is inherently stateless because the connection between Web browser and Web server is severed after each page is delivered. When the visitor clicks a link to move on to another page or to perform an action such as placing a product in a shopping cart, the Web server has no nascent knowledge of whom that user is. Cookies allow the server to keep track of who’s who, even if only labeled with a number, and to manage the broader user interaction across the site.
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Make magic with Fonts

Create unique design is the key point to get users attention on your site. Just like working with traditional paper documents, fonts can make a really big difference in the way your documents look. You can invoke a wide variety of feelings just from the look of the type. You can go from a formal, almost rigid look to a whimsical or childlike presentation. You can use fonts for the same effect on the Web, as long as you keep certain limitations in mind.

Three major terms are used to describe the styling and presentation of text on both paper and the Web: typeface, font family, and font. A typeface is a specific design for a set of characters. The design is what gives the characters their
unique look. Is there a curlycue at the bottom of the letter g or a long, waving top stroke on the capital letter F? Does the whole set look like the handwriting work of a five-year-old? All sorts of features like these go into designing the typeface, which is given a name by its designer. Continue reading »

Colors and Design

Some attractive sites usually play with various colors. Using color effectively depends on understanding and following some simple rules about how eyes perceive color and how color affects people. Now that you understand the vocabulary, I’ll dive into some choices that you will have to make. Then what would be your options when choosing colors and combination of colors to present your message?

Colors affect the way you see other colors. This phenomenon is used over and over in advertising, design, and decoration. You choose colors to enhance and emphasize other colors much as you would select a mat or a frame for a painting or a print.

Have you ever heard people describe themselves as a “winter” or an “autumn”? They are talking about their personal coloration—their skin tones, hair color, and eye color. When you purchase clothing, you automatically sense this—often unconsciously. Have you ever tried on a sweater that looked great on the shelf but appeared to make you look pale or ill? Do some colors of clothes make you look good? The reason is a color relationship between your personal coloration and color of clothes.

The Psychological Impact of Color
Color has a strong impact on people emotionally. Consider the following phrases:
1. They’re seeing red right now.
2. I’m having a blue day.
3. She has a yellow streak.
4. He’s still rather green.
5. She told him a little white lie.

Each of these statements is immediately understandable without a description of the situation or the emotions involved. Color has the same effect on the viewer it sets a mood or a feeling.
Warm color might have it own different user segment as well.

Add Multimedia on your site

Designing attractive web, instead of balance on every content inside, adding some tools to get a sophisticated multimedia experience, could be another alternative. The first comes out on users usually from their first taste with animated graphics. Sound could be embedded in the page using proprietary HTML markup in each major browser, as could short movie clips by using plug-ins, the helper applications that work within the browser. Then came JavaScript, and graphical menus could change when the mouse passed over them.
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