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Question About Layouts
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I`m starting to think about a website for my jewelry design...and I want something unique. I do custom jewelry (wire and glass) - and even though I want to show a gallery of the items I have available, my main goal is to get orders for custom pieces over selling the pieces I already have done.
From all the feedback posts, I`ve seen that most everybody seems to go for the traditional upside down "L" shaped sites with the logo banner along the top and the navigation down the left side as your frame and then just changing the stuff in the "data" area....kind of like a spreadsheet.
That`s not my style but I don`t know what I want...I`ve looked over different web designers portfolios and they all look like variations of the same templates with nothing unique. Any suggestions on how to find someone who can give me the "outside the box" web development I`m looking for?
From all the feedback posts, I`ve seen that most everybody seems to go for the traditional upside down "L" shaped sites with the logo banner along the top and the navigation down the left side as your frame and then just changing the stuff in the "data" area....kind of like a spreadsheet.
That`s not my style but I don`t know what I want...I`ve looked over different web designers portfolios and they all look like variations of the same templates with nothing unique. Any suggestions on how to find someone who can give me the "outside the box" web development I`m looking for?
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Second, I hate the way those sites you listed look and I only deal with them for the bargain prices I can get there. My jewelry is custom made - hence, not bargain - so if I want my customers to pay the prices for custom jewelry, I don`t want a website that looks generic - a carbon copy of Ebay - if they want Ebay jewelry, they`ll go to Ebay.
Lastly, my question was how to find someone who can design something for me that`s outside the box, not should I do it. Instead of trying to convince me (the customer in this situation) that what I want is wrong, why don`t you answer my question as to if you know of anyone or how I can find someone who will design outside the box? If the only thing web designers know how to design is the "F" layout, then just say that and I`ll figure something else out.
So you are seeking to have a web site developed but you don`t know which type of layout you prefer? Well that is a question that I come across almost every week. As a web designer and developer the first thing I do before I start on the coding is plan (site architecture phase or the doodle stage as I call it) I take one thing into consideration. Which is try not to use the conventional web design style or the so called "L" style you are mentioning. The "L" style is to old and customers are aware of this. Although, many critique this issue, standing out from the rest is your best bet. Give your customer not only a well thought out web site but a nice shoping experience if you are going to use it to sell anything.Here is what`s happening on the internet, Everyone wants to copy eachother, the same look, the same Navigation scheme, and the same corporate look. With this in mind, you are giving your customer confidence "He starts falling under the confidence gap category" the confidence gap is the buyers inability to judge whether any product or service is better, worse, or cheaper than others. The buyer doesn`t have the control, so they stall, think, compare, and will try to gather as much information as possible.What you need to do is gather all that information and somewhere in your web site try to address every aspect or question your client may have. It is not in the "LAYOUT" but in the content of your web site. Along with the content of your web site, comes another issue "A good HTML" Programmer,Although WYSIWIG`s are good, there are times when a programmer needs to get his hands dirty in the code "My Style is I prefer hard coding".Other things you may want to educate yourself with are web site standards, and compatibility, make sure the lay out you choose is going to display correctly in Safari for the Mac People, Mozilla, Netscape, and of course IE 6.0, All these features need to be addressed in the lay out of your choice. need to know more about HTML and the standards visit http://www.w3c.org</A>This will give you an idea of what having a well thought out and coded web site needs to look like. It will explain to you the rules of HTML and the what not to do`s and it gives all developers the knowledge they need to output a clean web site.Nuevolution2006-4-30 0:29:16