God is in the details

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The saying ‘God is in the details’ simply means that it’s the perfecting of the fine, sometimes unseen, details that make can make or break your website.

Symmetry and Equality:

It’s the little things like too much (or too little) spacing and odd sized buttons that impact hugely on the overall design of a website.  What’s the sense of great content and photographs when the website looks like it’s been hit by an earthquake?

Attention to detail:

It is integral to really try to give highest priority to the small details. This refers to the items that tend to be overlooked by most people. This means going the extra mile to notice that extra 1pixel, the color of that line, or the font size.

Never underestimate the power of details.

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The Website & the Web Developer

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The first step of the design process is likely the most technical and creative part of website development. There are sketch, layout, color and content decisions and at times it seems to be just too many things to track and yet there seems to be important aspects that seemed to escape you in the final layout.   These are the design aspects that you, being a first class web developer, should give the highest priority to; the ones that can make (or break) a website.

You definitely don’t learn these from a book.  They are learned by exploration and grasping.  This is also known as the ‘look and feel’ of the website - the first impression. Hinging on your personal style and your personal work ethic, you will note the points which you consider to be the most important in your designs - in accordance with your experiences with clients, user trends and feedback.

Finding the right key is THE task on which web developers need to zero in.

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