Web Design Workflow Improvisation

1. Web Design Workflow Improvisation One of the most important things these days for web designers, developers and especially freelancers seems to be improving their every day workflow and doing more within less time. If this is done properly, it usually translates in less headaches and more profit. Planning and wire framing To make a proper plan, you’ll need as much information from your client as possible. The more you know, the closer the end result will be to his needs. Some of the most important details you should always be aware of are: project/client goals, target audience, what the competition does, specific needs and website functionalities, content, site map, design style, budget, what will the call-to-action be, etc Graphic design workflow There are a lot of things you can do to improve your graphic design workflow in Illustrator and Photoshop, but since I’m only using the last one that’s what I’m going to talk about. First of all, start customizing your workspace. In Photoshop, you can set up all your palettes and panels in the order you want. You’ve got some predefined workspaces like 3D, design, motion, painting and photography, but you can also create your own. Aligning elements To have a flexible design, use shape layers. They are scalable, so you can use them for retina display as well. To have your shapes perfectly aligned to the pixel grid, before you draw them, have Snap to pixels clicked. You find this under the shape options little arrow, next to the custom shape tool.

2. Use smart objects. They preserve an image’s content with its original characteristics, enabling us to make non-destructive changes to the layer. For this, you can drag elements from Illustrator to Photoshop or convert elements to smart objects yourself. Responsive Frameworks Bootstrap3 and Foundation 4 are the most popular CSS frameworks these days and they can save you a lot of time once you get to know them. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Bootstrap and that’s what I’m using for a long time. I have actually created a tutorial about including Bootstrap 3 in WordPress and it’s the first of a series called Create a Responsive WordPress Theme With Bootstrap 3 Use Right Editors It’s gorgeous, blazing fast, extremely extensible and customizable. You can create your own shortcuts and plugins install existing plugins (and there are tons of useful ones), have code completion for pretty much everything, create snippets, key bindings and have multiple cursors! For More Details Visit www.maastrixsolutions.com