Web Design Best Practices: Learning the Basics

Web design isn't just about looks. It's a much more complicated world where UX, accessibility, and business goals should all connect. This video will teach you these web design best practices! ✍️

Web design is more than a website's aesthetics. When designing a website, there are a number of things to consider to make a functional, efficient, easy-to-navigate site. A web designer needs to consider the type of website they're creating to come up with a design that has all of the required features, as well as the desired looks. In web design, beauty does not stand on its own.

Web designers have to know the art of balancing beauty and efficiency. There are many things to keep in mind while designing a website, such as branding, coding and accessibility. The ideal website has to express your brand's proposal. Think of it as your brand's front door.

This in-depth tutorial will guide you through web design best practices, helping you understand if your site has everything you need so you can cover web design basics and more!

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Web Design Best Practices
0:35 What Defines Web Design Best Practices?
0:48 Brand Standards
1:12 Balance
2:51 Composition
3:03 Spacing
3:27 Focal Point
3:38 Color
5:37 Typography
7:05 Element Hierarchy
7:38 Best Web Design Formatting Practices
8:19 Images
9:10 Website Navigation
9:52 Menu Navigation
10:09 Navigational Menu
12:10 Coding Standards
12:22 SEO
12:36 Mobile Responsiveness
13:44 Website Security
14:23 Page Speed
15:47 Accessibility Standards
16:33 Reasons to Make Your Site Accessible
17:43 How to Make Your Website More Accessible

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[airangel]

This is an excellent overview of web design best practices. Thank you!

[syedhaq]

Everyone on youtube talks about usability, design, performance etc. But the real challenge is the content (text, image) and how you arrange it on pages.

[fensterputzernuernberg]

It is a very good video especially for beginners or even intermediates ... deserves way more views .

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[danianla]

Thank you for this video! Was really helpful! I have a question...What should be the size of my canvas if I'm designing a website on figma?

[gustavocosta]

Good video, to be honest it's boring to put all these feature in a website, but it's necessary if you want to be a professional