The web design process is very much about how your site ‘looks’ and ‘feels’. Most people over the age of twenty five will remember – fondly or otherwise – that the Web was once awash with sites from ‘designers’ in the very loosest sense of the term: dancing icons, annoying jingles and bizarre color schemes cobbled together to promote…well, something that perhaps wasn’t instantly obvious.
There are still countless examples of such sites on the net, but with a generation growing up with the internet on tap, a more savvy, switched-on designer has emerged. And many of those that were around in the early days of the World Wide Web either gave up the ghost, or learned what web design was all about. And with countless web applications helping to simplify the design process for non-programmers, sophisticated online hubs are more prevalent than ever.
But it’s all too easy to get bogged down in the visual aesthetics of your website. Indeed, the very second you launch your carefully crafted website into cyberspace, your efforts are visible for the entire world to see. Cyber surfers from Seattle and San Francisco, to Sweden and Spain all have equal, real-time access to your personal pages. And with that in mind, the need to build your website for a global audience is vital. However, multilingual web design is an art in itself.
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