Web design is really a whole family of various skills. You have content management and development, you have the creation and design of things like banner images and so forth, you have the actual design of the site, the template you are working with, and this isn’t even getting into marketing the site.
So, it really is best if you just start from step one, the skeleton of the site, the template, the framework in which you will place all of those images and articles and so on. Start with a good framework, and everything else should be easy. Here are three great tutorials on building a good, easy-to-navigate website…
Simple enough for you? This is a pretty bare-bones, no-nonsense tutorial that just guides you through the process of creating a good, basic site.
One of the main problems web designers face is that not everyone has the same speed internet. Sometimes a person just wants a simple, well designed, fast loading site either because their internet can’t take much more, or because they do not like to waste a lot of bandwidth. These ten tips will help you develop a framework for simple, clean, fast loading sites.
This shows you how to create a simple layout in Photoshop for a website. Use this as your practice layout and you should be developing clean, readable layouts of your own in no time.
Really, designing a website is about 50% know-how and 50% creativity. You need to keep a site simple, easy to read and easy to navigate, but you also need good content and a design hook that keeps people interested without coming across as flashy or garish. What you may want to do is bang out a couple of practice sites before you get started, and keep these web designing tutorials handy for when you need a cheat sheet.