Website Design Advice & Help Given

[ourlittlestudio]

Hi ladies,

My name is Vicky, and I'm a website designer over at Our Little Studio. I have been a web designer for well over 12 years now and specialise in boutique design for WAHMs and small business.

If you need any general design help or advice just let me know and I will be glad to help in any way that I can.

Best Wishes,

~ Victoria

[WriterGig]

I'm interested in a new website template for one of my sites, but I want it to be html based with a css. Do you do that type of web design?

[GregPrice]

I would love to know what the benefits of WordPress are. I have only used Weebly but it seems that most individuals that have been designing sites for a while use Word Press.

[merankorii]

Hi! I have been into web design for about 3 years now. I did take classes online from eClasses.org and I enjoyed these thoroughly, however I do not feel that I received the foundation in web design that I could've received if I had pursued at least an associate's degree.

As far as being self taught is concerned... I am not the greatest at that. I can code, don't get me wrong, but I really feel like there are holes in my education. I am insecure.

Any advice? Do you think an Associate's degree would be helpful in this economy and in the web design world?

I am considering Sessions College for Professional Design - Online Design School

[Orlando Web Design]

Originally Posted by GregPrice

I would love to know what the benefits of WordPress are. I have only used Weebly but it seems that most individuals that have been designing sites for a while use Word Press.

The only benefits of wordpress is that its easy out of the box. if you dont know much about web design, this is the tool to use. but if you do know web design and need your site hard-coded with much more such as ecommerce, social networking etc, its no good for that. while individuals and small companies love it, programmers hate it because it only allows you to get what you get. everything is so out of box, that a programmer has a harder time editing it versus building from scratch. nonetheless, its great for beginners.

[coachkat]

As a user of wordpress, the items mentioned that you cannot get or use within wordpress...you actually CAN. Wordpress has the flexibility and plug ins available to make a large and complex site, including ecommerce, storefront, social networking, etc. You just have to know what you are doing with CSS and be very familiar inside and out of the wordpress platform.

I built my first website in 1995 and I've done both hardcore coding and wordpress coding, my preference is wordpress because Google LOVES wordpress sites. Because wordpress is a blogging platform (although you don't have to use it AS a blog because you can disable the blog functions), it appears to be a more valuable site to google just for the simple fact it has wordpress installed.

Now, I am referring to a self-hosted site that you install wordpress on the root directory. NOT a blog account at the wordpress.com site.

I hope that helps!

[jones02]

I agree Coachkat, Google loves Wordpress You should go on eclasses.org to find new classes.

[johnlee5757]

Hi vickey as i saw your post i wanna help from you regarding Website Design .I wanna make perfect Website Which includes Flash, good navigation and look and appearance of that site so please tell me how should be navigation some information regarding website.

[FantasyBelles]

Originally Posted by johnlee5757

Hi vickey as i saw your post i wanna help from you regarding Website Design .I wanna make perfect Website Which includes Flash, good navigation and look and appearance of that site so please tell me how should be navigation some information regarding website.

Flash is old hat and a dying technology. It isn't supported by 90% of the mobile devices out there and Google have a very hard time reading Flash files. You can do just as much with JavaScript or jQuery and still be mobile and SEO friendly.

[FantasyBelles]

Originally Posted by coachkat

my preference is wordpress because Google LOVES wordpress sites.

Erm...no. Google LOVES websites that are built to valid web standards and it's almost impossible to get WordPress to churn out anything even close to valid.

Just put your website address into the W3C Validator to find out how many errors your website has. Everytime Google comes up against one of these errors it causes the indexing to slow down and could resort in missing sections of your website.

Here's an article about the Importance of Web Standards.