Web Design for Kids: Design Basics

1. Web Design for Kids: Design Basics Welcome to our cool lesson of web design for kids. As the IT industry has taken over the entire digital market, it makes kids curious about learning various skills of web industry from web design to different app development techniques. They want to get in hands of various web technologies to bring their ideas into the real world. In this article, we will discuss some key points needed to create a good website. Though we have already talked about various elements in our previous blogs, here we will talk about the decisions you need to take to bring a design to life. Today, Internet has become an important part of everyone’s life so it’s never too late or early to start learning web design skills. If you are a kid itself, enjoy the ride: The User The User, the most important object of this web design world. The main reason behind creating a website is to improve your sales or converts. All the design we have created have the same goal that is to make a website easy to use and

2. understand. If users find difficulties while browsing your website, they will simply leave. So create a super –enjoyable experience for the user. The main decisions involve things like content, organization, layout, empty space, graphics, color, and typography. Content Content is the most effective part of web design. It won’t really matter how your site will look if your content doesn’t meet users need. Display a clear message or information that is essential to them. You can provide enough of details by narrowing down content that will actually help the user get more information in the end. Content Organization and Layout Once the content is ready, organize it into different groups and categories to improve the flow of website. It will also help you find anything without any hassle. Don’t allow users think too hard where to go next. If you put too much content on the website, the layout might look clumsy. The Visuals Make sure your website is easy to navigate, think about the look and feel of it to improve the overall user experience. This includes images, typography, color palette, hierarchy and so on. Graphics and Images Graphics and images are another important factors that make your website look attractive. Make sure you use high quality images in the right place, must relevant to the content they were placed with. If you run an ecommerce website, minimize the size of your each image so that website will load faster than the usual. Images are used to grab user’s attention. Icons Icons are small graphics that are visually interesting to sustain the user’s attention. A good icon is easy to read and well understood and can communicate with the user without using text at all. Visual Hierarchy

3. Visual hierarchy is all about showing the relationship between different elements of a website such as: color, size, use of white space, and positioning. Choose carefully where to put these empty spaces. Similar content should be grouped close together and distanced from unrelated content. In this article, we have discussed some key web design concepts that will make things easier for each kid to create a simple yet modern website from scratch. Typography is another important element, for details read this article – http://imediadesign123.wixsite.com/imediadesignstech/single- post/2016/02/26/Typography-Is-the-Foundation-of-Web-Design