Basic website elements and its parts

Web design can be fascinating.

Creating attractive and professional websites is the dream of millions of designers around the world who use Internet technologies.

A website must be especially accessible, intuitive and pleasant.

The initial organization is very important to be able to effectively use the tools and make timely decisions.

Let's start with the conception of Web design, explain design strategies and how to organize ideas.

Understanding the project from this stage, allows a significant saving of resources at the time of implementation.

The Web

Internal pages of the Website, Possibly the term Web page is the most used on the Internet, precisely because when browsing the network it does so in search of electronic pages.

Web pages are the support of information on the Web.

The components of a web page are: images, texts and other multimedia content. The internal sections are linked so that the user can navigate from one page to another using hyperlinks, a concept of interactivity emerged with the Internet phenomenon.

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The parts that form a Web page are a set of texts, images, audio, video and other contents.

The Websites

A website is a location on the Web that contains several Web pages organized hierarchically.

Each site has a homepage that corresponds to the home page.

It is the first page that is displayed when you access a site by typing the domain name in the browser bar.

A site usually has more than one Web page and its main objective is to offer and provide the information that users need

NOTE:
Sometimes the term Web page is used to refer to a Web site. A Website is a set of Web pages. Web pages constitute unique files with an assigned name.

Elements that make up a Web page

• How is a Web page composed?
• What information should a Web page have?

The main characteristics that make up a page on the Internet are:

Text

Text on a Web Site: Text is the most significant element of any Web site because users surf the Web in search of information expressed in hypertext.

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The texts have made English the universal language of the network. In its goal to reach the widest possible audience, many sites offer their information and services in their native language and in other languages, mainly in English.

Images

Although you should not abuse of the use of images because of the risk of increasing the weight of the page, and therefore, download times. The images constitute an essential element to offer visual information of the content and to show an attractive and personal design

Web Space

For our website to be visible to all we need to place it on a server

A Domain Name

The Name is the first part of a web address that identifies the server that stores and serves your site

Hyperlinks

By itself, a Web page can not do much. Real magic begins when you link several pages through links.

Video

While the Internet is increasingly affordable, reliable and fast, video editing programs are closer to users.

Now it is easier to make a video from a digital camera or a mobile phone with a built-in camera and that ends up uploading to the Web to make it available to everyone.

Animations in Flash

It is an animated image, easy to create and above all that occupies little memory. It has different uses, from the creation of cartoons to the deployment of interactive drawings.

Sounds

An increasingly important element. The commercialization of new mobile digital devices such as the iPhone has potentiated this element.

In addition to incorporating sound into the Web sites, you can download audio files for your mobile devices.

The MP3 format is the best known and most used for its quality and level of compression.

Other elements

Other fairly common elements are:

Banner: A still or animated image usually used for advertising

Frames: They are a kind of independent box in which you can load a Web page

In this way it is possible to divide a Web page into different parts or windows, each with its own borders and scrollbars, loading an independent external web page into each of them.

Frames were used a lot at a certain time, but in addition to creating some drawbacks in the design, it is an option that is not recommended since search engines do not correctly index the sites made with frames.

Currently you can get the same results with CSS.

Form: Area to enter data or comments. A template or page with empty spaces to fill with some purpose.

It is also used to refer to the set of fields requested by a specific program, which are stored for manipulation and subsequent use.

Web Design

The Web has become the most important way of communication in the world thanks to its facility to offer information with a speed never before reached by any other media.

This information can be consumed by anyone who has an Internet connection from anywhere in the world.

Web development is a mixture of technology, content, site architecture, design and interactivity

The success of a site depends on the way in which these five factors are combined that determine to a great extent the speed with which the information is generated and offered, and of course the success of a site.

Before analyzing these factors independently, you should consider that they must ensure that the site is easy to maintain, flexible to resize and perform updates and visually appealing to users, interesting to your audience, practical for quick downloads and effective searches; also technically sound, with no broken links or inappropriate behavior.

Web content influences the presentation, design concepts and some common strategies of work on the Internet.

Visual elements such as color, typography design and images, make up the personality of a site and generate an emotional impact that determines that the site is attractive.

Although the ultimate goal of every designer is to convey a message to a certain audience, being a good graphic designer does not necessarily mean being a good designer for web sites.

Anyone, regardless of their artistic level, can get a functional design with good looks.

A little experience and knowledge of some basic principles of design plus a certain degree of inspiration, originality and good taste will make you have part of the battle won.

Observe the details of their surroundings, nature, art and, above all, the work of other creators on the Web.

It seems very elementary, but many forget the main more affordable sources of aesthetic enrichment.