Design inspiration for your website
A website can fill many forms and roles for an organization, business or just for hobby. With a website, you can give your ideas and creativity free rein to ensure that your vision takes shape as well. With deciding the layout and further first steps of your website, it is sometimes difficult to decide where to start. In this blog post, we will give you some tips on how best to go about this and where to find inspiration for your website layout. Let's get started!
Designing and creating your website can be done in several ways, however, many people choose to use a Content Management System such as WordPress to make this easy. The theme choice is then what determines the layout of your website (for the most part). With a theme, it is a matter of changing the layout of your website with the click of a button.
Other ways used to create a website are other Content Management Systems such as Joomla, Drupal or Umbraco. Where you can also choose a theme, or create one yourself. Of course, it is also an option to create the website layout entirely by yourself in CSS as well. Or choose or purchase a particular Bootstrap theme for this purpose. In short, there are multiple options you can use to achieve the same thing, creating a website.
Browsing around theme choices
WordPress and other Content Management Systems allow you to browse around in the administrator area for different themes to install. We recommend not installing themes haphazardly in your live website or existing production website, but rather testing this out on a subdomain all for a while. This way you won't pollute the live site with unnecessary data and database changes. Which in turn can come at the expense of your website speed.
With a WordPress website, this is particularly easy by looking right in the administrator environment itself, or you can also look at third-party providers for themes. These are then in most cases paid, and are often available for around 50 euros. Make sure you always look at reliable websites and choose a theme that is updated regularly. Once your theme is no longer updated, you may run a security risk. The themes you can install through WordPress itself are available for free in most cases, with an upgrade that then unlocks more functionality. Again, this varies from theme to theme, so in addition to the look, always do some research on all available functionality and costs of these. Then you can make sure you don't get anything weird.
In a theme, with the next updates to WordPress, you can also increasingly take care of how certain things will look yourself. With the full site editor that is currently still in beta, you can also further customize the entire layout yourself. This provides a lot of freedom that you normally didn't have with a theme installation. For a lot of target groups, however, this will not be used right away, there are also plenty of users who do not want to spend a lot of time on it. They are looking for the simplicity of a ready-to-use theme.
Use Pinterest for web design inspiration
With social media you can also get plenty of inspiration for different designs and shapes, Pinterest is a major player in this as the different pins can be scrolled through all different designs in a fun way. This is why this platform is so popular with furniture makers, artists and other creatives. With just a search for web design on Pinterest or Webpage layout you can already get a lot of different ideas. If you click further on the pin, it often contains more information you can use.
Many of these are of course paid, but you can often download them for free. So always be careful with this and look at the experiences of previous users. But of course that applies to everything you download on the Internet.
Taking functionality and styles from existing websites
A good way is to look at existing websites that appeal to you, see what you like and make a note of it. For example, do you want a nice son slider on your homepage that highlights your latest products or blogs? Or do you want your website to use the same color scheme? Then take a look at the browser tools used. Chances are this is free to use and a component they have also used from an application. In fact, an entirely original website is more often not common than it is. Often it is only the big companies that have the budget for a completely custom design website. Most websites you see and use will be readymade themes or components that are available open source.
Before you adopt any of the styling, it is always a good idea to make sure that you are allowed to use it. Using the exact same layout and colors or the corporate identity of a company can cause a lot of legal problems. So always be careful with this.
Developing your vision
When you want to start making your own website you are of course looking for a reliable hosting party, at MijnHostingPartner.nl we have a hosting package ready for you on which your website can be made fast and as extensive as desired. Install WordPress with the click of a button and arrange many of the things in an easy way directly from the customer panel. This makes it advantageous for any level of web designer to get started.
So creating the website itself can be done with a Content Management System of your choice, or you can develop it yourself with Microsoft Visual Studio for example a powerful tool for any developer. At MijnHostingPartner.nl you are in control and your hosting space is a blank canvas waiting for you. Start your website now and tap into your inner designer! Turn your vision into a reality for your blog, business or hobby.
