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user220201
user220201

Reputation: 4534

Help with UI or a web application

I am working on a web app but am not a UI designer. I have a bare bones site working but before releasing the product I would like to make it look a little professional. What are the things I should do? Here is the list I came up with. Can I get(buy) any of these from sites out there?

I am also new to web development. Learned the whole html/js/css before doing this.

The site itself is a web based game and so there is a login page, about page, page describing the game and the actual game page itself. What I am trying to get at is, I hope this is the way people go about working on projects. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

-P

Upvotes: 0

Views: 96

Answers (2)

Damb
Damb

Reputation: 14600

Go spend tiny amount of cash and buy pre-made templates at themeforest.
Or, if you want to spend MUCH more, but get your unique design and everything you want, go to 99designs.

Themeforest is acually part of big marketplace... you can also visit their another marketplaces for other stuff (like graphic assets, sounds etc.)

If you want to invest time and learn it, then just google for web design blogs and portals. But there is list of my favs:

Smashing Magazine
NetTuts
webdesigner wall

Upvotes: 0

tamarintech
tamarintech

Reputation: 1982

Why would you try to buy a design?

You can certainly contact a design firm and pay for someone to design it for you.

As the developer, you should probably put on your waders and get involved ASAP...

Here are a few ways to start:

Have one of your testers (if you don't have testers or buddies, then it's on you) go through and decide what they think it should look like. Have them just draw it on paper, gimp, photochop, mspaint, whatever.

Since you are a developer - use that drawing to decide the logical grouping of elements. Do you have a navigation ribbon? Do you think it looks more intuitive on the left side or above the top? etc

Revisit your code - do you need to add id's to objects? At minimum, classes would be good.

Lastly, go dig into CSS. If you can't achieve what you want in CSS then jump to jquery.

It's easy to say "I'm a developer - not a designer" and try to skip this step... unfortunately, that excuse isn't going to work forever. ;)

Upvotes: 1

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