Rich Web Design

Which is best described as adding design ornaments such as bevels, reflections, drop shadows, and gradients, background, graphic web banners. These things are often used to make elements feel more tactile and usable to users who are navigating the website or using an application. This design style has been the ‘ traditional ‘ method of designing a website. This type of website is very graphic design heavy – usually with a  fancy graphic banner at the top of the page that incorporates elements of the business. It also can have complex navigation drop down multi menu system that leads to all the pages on the site under the banner. One can use highly graphic backgrounds and lots of shading and shadows hat make it pop off the page. The web pages usually are short and you do not have to scroll endlessly down the page to view the content.

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Flat Web Design

Which is best described in which elements lose any type of stylistic characters that make them appear as though they lift off the page, this means removing stylistic characters such as drop shadows, gradients, textures, and any other type of design that is meant to make the element feel three-dimensional and allows one to focus on what is the most important ie the content and the message. The web pages and background are usually shade of white with the use of large colorful images that pop off the background  or can go the other way with the use of vibrant bold flat colours. The main focus is also on large typography avoiding drop-shadows, glows and heavy textures that make websites look more like 3D. The actual content on the page is seen to be more important than the web page design elements or the web template itself. Therefore it is very important to have professional quality images on the page. This is why we advice to either supply us with your own professional photos or we can purchase images that represent your industry from licensed online image stock images sources instead. These type of websites are more suited to smart technologies with touch screens which encourage the user to swipe the screen content rather than pressing endless buttons and waiting to open new web pages  – there can be a lot of content on one page that one can scroll down endlessly with large flat images and less amounts text elements. Usually, the top of the page is very simple with the business logo to the left and then a simple navigation button structure to the right of the logo with the main landing pages inserted  – such as home – about – contact – products and services.     Save