Web designing refers to designing or giving a look to a website oe web page. Since a website is developed to provide people with information, it is very important for a designer to design it in a fashion so that people find it attractive and interesting. Contents are certainly important but to make people reach up to that, you have to attract viewers towards your site and if your web design is not attractive enough you can’t expect a viewer to spend more than a few seconds on your site.

So, how big a challenge is web designing? Well it is surely quite challenging but not something that you can’t expect. Designing a website beautifully and effectively becomes simple if you follow some basic principles while starting the job. Scroll down to note a few important things that you should keep in mind while designing a web page. These simple, easy to follow principles would surely help you make a smart design for your website or webpage:

Balance: While designing a website or page, try to maintain a balance between the objects or elements you are using. Bigger, dark colored and heavier objects and smaller, light colored and lighter objects should be used in right proportion. That will make your web design well-balanced.

Contrast: contrast is a very important factor, as far as visualization is concerned. Though by contrast people understand black against white, in case of web designing it could be small versus big, smooth versus rough and big versus. Sharp contrast between elements add to the smartness of a webpage.

Emphasize: To make an effective web design you must know how to put emphasize on things that deserve it. Putting equal emphasize on everything could spoilsport your effort since chances will be more for viewers to overlook the vital things. You should learn how to drag the eyes of a viewer towards an object which is important in the aspect of your website. Try to emphasize on objects according to their importance or hierarchy.

Rhythm: Try to follow a particular pattern while designing your site. Patterns are easy for people to comprehend as they create a rhythm which makes access to a website easier for viewer.

Unity: unity refers to bringing together the like elements and moving apart the diverse elements. This helps in creating proximity.

Since a website is developed with the purpose of providing people with information, one must ensure that the website is accessible to all. If a reader find it difficult to access information on a website, then designing the page doesn’t make sense. Apart from using a design that is soothing for the eyes and a language that the mass is comfortable with, a website should think about the people who are colorblind. Research shows that 6 to 8 percent of people in European countries are colorblind and they face maximum difficulty in distinguishing two colors-red and green. Since you are developing a website to serve everybody and not a particular section of people, you must keep in mind this problem of the colorblind people.

There are a few things that you can do to make your website and its contents colorblind-friendly.

The first thing that you can do is completely avoid the use of any color to specify anything. That will minimize your risk of making the website inaccessible to colorblind people.

Avoid using red and green color on your website contents. There are hundreds of other shades that you can use to fulfill your purposes. Try some other color combinations to avoid the risk.

Red and green are mostly used in websites to signify ’stop’ and ‘go’. Besides red is a good highlighter. So while highlighting something on your page with red colored fonts also uses some icons for it so that the colorblind people can understand its importance.

De saturates the images to be used on your webpages. De saturation will remove all colors from the image and there will be no chance of confusion for the colorblind.

Never use red and green color together as that will make your site completely inaccessible for the colorblind. Try some alternative to serve the purpose of blending red and green.

Another smart thing that you can do is show your website to a colorblind person. If that person is okay with it, you can relax and if he/points any difficulty you can make necessary changes and get it checked.

Chose your colors being bit aware as the colors you are using might make a negative impact on the colorblind people because those ways you will succeed in making them understand that the colored portions are important.