5 Ordinances that Tend to Make Web Designing an Immaculate Zeal

It is often believed that zeal or passion never go along with any commandments or rules for moving ahead to make one achieve what she or he desires. However, in the professional world, this is not the case, especially in the creative field of Web designing. As a designer, one tends to focus on technical details, processes, and execution strategies by keeping in mind some fundamentals, principles, or commandments. This approach is essential for making the team of designers work in coordination with the same information regarding the processes and implementation. Ordinances or guiding principles remind one of the basics that can be even shared with the colleagues so that there is consistency in the final output. Further, they also help you sharpen your design process to face challenges that you may face in future. So, here are the primary ordinances for every Web designer to follow in this evolving tech world of diverse devices and incredible possibilities.

Mobile Support is Essential.

With the increasing use of iPads, tablets, laptops, and smartphones for accessing the World Wide Web; there is no doubt that your Web designing projects must be mobile-friendly. As per the latest statistics, 700k Android, 143k Blackberry, and 200k Nokia smartphones were already in use by early 2012. Further, even Facebook has reported that more people are using their most famous social network through mobile Web. This indicates that for any business to succeed, it is vital that it makes its site available even on the mobile Web. Therefore, one of the modern commandments for the Web designers is to ensure mobile support for the sites they design.

Customize Only after Optimization.

If something new is released after which real time monitoring indicate the need of second round of innovation, it becomes essential to prioritize that round. There may be a need of optimization as well as customization in this round. Optimization includes technical solutions for ensuring compact file sizes and greater site visibility; customization entails the ideas of improvements in terms of navigation, features, or content. Of the two, optimization must given more priority over customizations. When you speed up the access rate, you are allowing users to access and interact with your site, which is the sole goal of online business. This comes only from optimization. Therefore, optimization comes first!

Ensure Reusability.

This means that the designers must craft an element in such a way that it can be published almost on any platform. This is actually the sign of an efficient workflow. Here, the need is to create a sole, simple workflow that generates Web elements only once but distributes them effectively to all gadgets. Focus should not be only on looks and placements of these elements but also on quality, especially in case of content publishing. So, it is vital to model content types by keeping in mind the core needs coupled with the vision of multi-channel reuse. Such an approach with consistency and simplicity in terms of design and data feeds can be used by online apps and widgets as well for swift experimentation and innovation without making any initial infrastructure changes.

Develop a Flexible Visual Style Guide

Instead of maintaining a variety of unique designs, it is more efficient to have a flexible visual style guide that can offer aesthetic guidance for several screen sizes. The underlying ideal is to allow rapid design decisions for publishing on any target device. Having a collection of specific designs for specific scenarios or devices actually limit your ability to innovate and react quickly. There are a few tools and processes, which can help you to achieve this, so that the new experimental designs do not start with their own new route.

Bio: Vernon Sampilo is a certified Web designer who has gained an experience of seven years in the industry. His goal is to be one of those distinctively smart Web designers who ride their creative passion on the foundation of commandments.