Global Design Websites
Unity of design is key to creating a good website. Think
about all of the big name websites that you’ve been to. When
you went from one page to the other, there are lots of similar
elements. Sometimes its just a logo on the page, and sometimes
its a navigation header that is on the top of every single page
on the entire site.
So, how can you implement a global design strategy on your
website? First of all, design your site with the best web
design program out there. Once you’ve gotten to that point, the
rest will take care of itself. That is because you can set
global preferences and create templates.
As an example, let’s say that you are running a website that
has some written content, like articles and tutorials, and also
has an online store that sells items mentioned in those
articles.
First, you’ll create some templates. You can use the same
one for every single item page and article page on the site or
use a different templates for articles and sales items. Once
the template is created (and don’t worry about that, because
you get a lot of high quality templates included with the
program) you can start filling in your content.
If something should come up later on down the road and you
want to make some changes, then all you have to do is make
changes in one place, not on each individual page. That’s a
real time saver.
Okay, so we’ve got our design philosophy worked out and
those design choices have been applied at a global level so if
changes need to be made they can be made easily. Now we have to
fill all of those pages with content.
Well, there’s an answer for that too. What you need to use
is a device called an Import Tool. Essentially, this tool will
allow you to take content that you already have (if you’re
starting up an online store, you should already have a lot of
item stats worked out) and quickly import that information onto
individual web pages.
Now, depending on the format you have your preliminary
information in, there may be some tweaking necessary, but at
the very least you will be saving yourself a lot of time, and
that’s what its all about.
You want to generate the most amount of content possible in
the least amount of time, and to do that you need powerful
tools.
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