Anyone can make a website. What’s difficult is creating a website that captures your target audience, delivers the right information and creates an enjoyable experience.
There are millions of websites out there that are flawed because the people involved didn’t ask the right questions at the start. Whether you’re a designer, developer, business owner or just someone who wants a website, there’s a bunch of questions you need to answer before you even think about buying URLS, designing pages or even asking someone else to make you a website.
This session is all about the key questions you need to ask and answer at the start of any website project. You’ll need to bring along an idea for a website, could be real, could be fictitious. Then during the session we’ll go about answering these questions like ‘Why the hell do you even want a website?’ and ‘Who the hell is going to use it?’. The answers to these will form the foundation of your website project and help you create a site that is focused, relevant and well structured. The process you’ll learn can be applied to any web project so you can use it time and again to help you get off on the right foot.
All resoureces are linked below and downloadable in PDF form.
A name says a lot about you so it’s important to get it right here’s some sites to help you out.
Personas are all about defining potential users of your site so you can design for them specifically. The resources below go into real depth on how to create accurate and detailed personas.
These sites are great for helping you define a style for your website. It’s always best to learn from the best in the business.
Before you start any project you should be looking at what’s out there already to help push you in the right direction. These sites showcase the best of the best so check them out.
Beautiful images can really help bring designs to life and they’re even better if they’re free. Here’s a list of some great free stock sites but check the licensing to ensure you’re using them legally.
There are so many free fonts out there but the majority are terrible so you need to sift through them to find the gems. These sites are full of great free fonts so should get you up and running.