The document provides five essential tips for creating effective website designs, emphasizing reduced text and enhanced imagery. Key suggestions include using natural color schemes, gathering design inspirations, attending industry conferences, leveraging creative influences from movies, and ensuring brand consistency. These strategies aim to improve user engagement and reduce bounce rates, ultimately benefiting businesses by attracting and retaining clients.

1. Graphic Design
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2. Unlike the website of yesteryear, a great site is using less text and
more imagery in their designs. While some may consider this type of
style is only a trend. In addition to websites that are trendy in some
way, the purpose of a site is to serve a business in some way.
Whether the site is used to brand a business or create a space that
gives proper information to something relevant, it has to be eye
catching. In this week’s blog we uncover 5 tips that you will help you
in creating a great website design whether you’ve been creating
them for a day or a lifetime. Ready? Go!

3. Older sites tend to be weighted down with tons of dialogue and most
people aren’t interested in reading all that text today. Writing good
web copy is important to get your message to the reader, keeping
them compelled or intrigued to continue reading. But, have you ever
landed on a website that is using color or the placement of something
is off. What did you do? Perhaps you searched a little deeper to find
the info that you’re looking for or maybe you left the site and moved
on. Whatever the case maybe, these tips will not only help make you
a great designer, they’ll also keep the client on the website longer.

4. 1.Use natural color schemes for your designs.
2.Make an idea box by collecting screen captures of great designs.
3.Attend Advertising and Marketing conferences as well as awards.
4.Go to the movies to come up with the idea mill.
5.Find the harmony and stick to the brand key elements.

5. Bounce rate is something that no website likes. For those who aren’t
familiar bounce rate is what will happen when a viewer lands on a
page and then immediately bounces out. By designing a site that is
both aesthetically pleasing that works with proper coding is
imperative to keep someone on the site. If the website isn’t pleasing
to the eye, your viewer most likely will leave and this could potentially
affect the rank in a Google search.

6. Take a look around your backyard and you’ll see colors that
harmonize. Take photos and look at them with a lot of blur. You’ll see
that natural schemes rarely go wrong when you’re creating your
designs.
Next, make an idea box by visiting other websites and then doing
screen captures. With programs like Jing you can instantly make notes
about what you find works well together. Pay attention to the copy
and the font. Whatever the case may be, you’ll find the idea box or
folder will help spark new ideas that reflect your style of design.

7. It’s a good idea to attend conferences and clubs when you’re first
starting out. Oftentimes you can learn a lot to see what is trending or
why judges think a website design works. Submit and enter contests
like the Addy Awards. You’d be surprised how much you can learn by
attending one of these types of conferences.
Movies are an excellent way to add ideas to the mill. Pay
attention to the art direction used in most movies and use
similar techniques to create your website. Websites that have a
personality and character do much better.

8. The key elements are super important when it comes to branding.
The personality of the brand should be reflecting on the company’s
website, just like everything else. Key elements would be color, font,
and nature of the business. The chances of you using hot pink on a
website that sells tools to construction workers might not be the
best choice. The layout should harmonize and be organized to flow
well.

9. By using these common tips, you’ll become a much better designer
and the business will benefit by keeping their clients on the
website and capturing them as a lead. Don’t hesitate to discuss
with your instructors on other ways to improve your website
designs.

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11. Graphic Design
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