MAURA MCDONNELL

Freelance Web Designer

Services

Web Design

Your ideas are translated into a unique and customised design to make your web presence the best it can be. Excellent web design involves attention to the four main stages of web design:

1. Graphic Interface Design

The interface of your website is a design task. The design of an interface for a website is a graphic design task with a special focus on the presentation of brand, look and feel and user interaction.

2. Coding the Graphic Interface Design

Coding the website to css, xhtml and accessibility standards ensures that your website is up to date and loads fast and is accessible to a wide range of users

3. Building the Content of your Website

Your content styled and built with the graphic design and code of the first two stages….your site now ready to go live.

4. Updating your Website

Keeping your website current and updated is an important aspect of having a website presence. There are a range of updating options. The website can be maintained by your web designer. You can update it yourself by purchasing software, this can be arranged and training provided in how to use it. A CMS can be set up for you, and once installed and set up, you can then update your website via an internet browser.

Hosting and Domain Name

Hosting and Domain Name Registration can be organised for you with reputable Irish Hosting Companies, or you may have your own. The website will be uploaded for you to a new host or your existing or preferred host

Further Information in the Following Articles

Thinking About a Website - Typical Web Types of Website

Web Designer Role