Leeds Web Designer

The primary one now is Visual Studio from Microsoft which is geared to creating applications for the .NET Framework. There are many different versions of this which you can use ranging from a FREE version (which you can do most things with) to a team edition which is used by large development teams. Adobe has Dreamweaver although I believe they have dropped support for ASP.NET in their latest version. I have used a mix of the two in the past where I create all of my backend code with Visual Studio and did the front end development using Dreamweaver. You can obtain the FREE version of Visual Web Developer at http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/

I always try to use a different banner image across different pages on sites. It is one of the first things a user will see and good use is to get a Unique Selling Point (USP) or key messaging for that service or product in the space. It is a bit of a waste to use same image over and over again. Secondly it can make the experience a bit more interesting for the surfer when viewing a text heavy site.

The most important part of creating a website has to be getting the information from your client. I would write a list of all the elements that they want on the website such as biog, tracks, tour dates etc. Then I would find out how often these would need to be updated. Find out whether your client would like to do this themself or for you to do it. If it is regular they are probably better updating it themselves and you would need a CMS system. If it is going to be an infrequent update then maybe the best option would be for you to create a static site and update it when needed. Once you have the elements you should create a wireframe design to show where elements would be positioned on page so your client can get an idea of how the layout is presented without you having to do a load of work. I would not opt for a full flash site as not very Search Engine Friendly and would almost definately use HTML/CSS and you can get some very cool Javascript Plugins like with JQuery that can add animation and life to a web site without having to use Flash. http://jquery.com/

We are currently using the JQuery library. Does anyone have any feedback on whether this is the quickest to implement compared to any others that are out there and whether there are others with better plugins etc?

Hi All, My name is Lee and I am a partner of a digital media agency in Leeds, UK. I have been involved with computers for 11 years now with experience in web design / development, rich client development, database development etc etc. I mainly like the problem solving apsects associated with creating online and offline applications or development in general. You can check out my work at Why Digital Web Design. Thats it for now.