Often we find that a typical website: “Welcome to my homepage,” an animated e-mail, background with italics (diagonal), animated lines, tables with border-dimention and three others. This happens because of the facilities provided by the software template web makers such as: Frontpage, Corel WebDesigner, and so forth are intended to facilitate users in building websites.

If you are satisfied with the results of your work to build a website with a template facility, well enough to reach here. But if you are not satisfied with what you make, and you feel like better, then you need to know how a Web Designer to build a website, regardless you have artistic talent or not.

1. Unique: In creating any work of a designer to have the awareness to not imitate or use other people’s work. Similarly, a Web Designer must have a culture of shame for using icons, animations, buttons, etc. which have been used or created by others.

2. Composition: A Web Designer always pay attention to the color composition to be used in a website made. Use always Palette WebColor 216, which can be obtained from Adobe.com, this is to prevent the occurrence of dither in GIF format images. In building a company website, Web Designer always adjust the color used by the company’s Corporate Color. For example: his Telkom Corporate Color is blue, Coca-Cola: red and white, Standard-Chartered: green and blue, etc.. For then the colors had been used as a dominant color or as a supporting element (line, background, buttons, etc.).

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The first page of the blog is good and beautiful to help make visitors feel at home and we are optimistic as the blog owner when our visitors become repeat customers, especially for first-time visitors to visit.

In order to achieve this, one key question here, “Do you know what visitors want (or unwanted) when they see the first page of the blog are you?” Hold your questions answered and begin our step-by-step.

1. The selection of appropriate themes.

2. Tagline brief and clear.

3. Putting page navigation menu / category.

4. Short and Simple

5. Customization and review

5. Create an HTML: After that we tidy up the layout of our designs such as placing a few buttons and images, add text, edit the HTML script, create the form layout in HTML format. For that we need an HTML editor software such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage and Allaire Homesite.

6. Programming and Scripts: For e-commerce websites, classifieds, auctions, databases, create guestbooks, counters and a discussion forum. HTML file we will need programming to perform such activity. Programming and scripting can be made using ASP, Borland Delphy, CGI, PHP, Visual Basic. And please note that this script programming and design of the homepage is usually done after we have finished.

7. Upload the HTML: Once we have a html file with pictures and script. We need to upload our files to a place (hosting), so that everyone in the world can access our html pages. Usually Macromedia Dreamweaver with FTP sites and facilities with Publishnya Microsoft FrontPage has been providing this upload facility. Or can use software such as WS-FTP, Cute FTP, Bullet FTP.

8. Personal Homepages: For a personal homepage or simply want to try it is usually after a ready-made html files can be hosted at places for free, use free counters and guestbooks and add a variety of accesories in enhancing the personal homepage.

Various steps used our web professionals to create a homepage. The following is the general process carried out most of the web profession in Indonesia to make the web.

1. Creating a Sketch Design: Designers could have ideas for making a homepage interface in the form of sketches on paper first. For most people, this step is usually passed directly on the step and make the layout design using software.

2. Create a Layout Design: After the sketch was finished, we use software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia Freehand sketches to refine the design.

3. Dividing the image into small pieces: After the layout of the homepage design finished. Gambarb files are broken up into small pieces for mengoptimize download time. To do so can use Adobe Image Ready software. This software can be directly cut the big picture and the auto had also made it into the html format. This step can only be passed if we do not image size too big.

4. Creating Animation: Animation is needed to turn our homepage in order to attract visitors. Macromedia Flash and Gif Construction Set can be used to do so.