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.).

3. Simple: Web Designer many use the principle of “Keep it Simple”, it is intended to display the website looks neat, clean and informative.

4. Semiotics: Semiotics is the study of signs. In this case expected to see signs or images, the user / audience can easily and quickly understood. For example: Do not make the picture / image that impressed buttons, yet it is not the buttons / links.

5. Ergonomic: Web Designer always pay attention to ergonomic aspects. Here is in terms of ergonomic comfort and speed of the user in reading the user to browse the website. Web Designer Fonts choosing the right size so easy to read, Web Designer put a link in such a way that is easy and fast to access and more importantly is Informative.

6. Focus: Determine the hierarchy of priorities of the messages to be delivered, for example: The title should be big, but not to eventually be a conflict with a similarly sized subheads. This will confuse the user / audience to determine which messages must first be read / viewed.

7. Consistent: Decide what font will be used as a Body-text, title, sub title and so forth, so that the website will look disciplined and tidy. Adjust font used by the mission and vision of the website, eg: avoid using the font Comic in building a company official website.

Thus some aspects and principles used in a Web Designer create a website, the rest are the expression of the author’s own website which manifested itself in preparation penggayaan website.