How To Plan Out Your Web Design: The Plan Before The Plan

by James Girardi

Too many first time web designers are learning basic coding before learning what they are trying to accomplish. In the book, "Web Design: The Plan Before The Plan", author James J. Girardi shares his planning phase of websites before ever writing a line of code.

Areas covered include accomplishing our web design goal, best ways to gather content, what are keywords, getting ranked without paying for it, SEO and SERPs, review writing, comparing your competitors, organizing images and pictures, how to use whitespace, 6 of the more popular web design layouts and what comes next.

This book is the perfect stepping stone and foundation building step towards creating a professional looking website. Unlike other beginning books on Web Design, "Web Design: The Plan Before The Plan" gives the "why" behind the "what".

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2016

About the author

James Girardi born and raised on Long Island. After high school, James served in the U.S. Navy and worked on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Coral Sea. After his service, he earned an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts then attended Adelphi University and earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. His work career consisted of various jobs then opened his first business in 1999. Ever since, he has been an entrepreneur, a writer, a sailor, a pilot, a husband and father. James still lives on Long Island and enjoys golf, volleyball, billiards, sailing, writing and web design.

Reviews

[Maurits Solleveld · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid Overview of Web Page Parts

Thus Web Design book provides a solid overview of the web page parts and other things to consider when designing your web pages. Well worth the read and to use as a reference when you need to look back to once done. Use it as a checklist, right colors? check. White space appropriate? Check. Search Engine Optimized? Check. And so on.

[K.D. TENNIS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great information for the “technologically un inclined”

This was an eye opening read! Gave me some great tips to start thinking about.
It gave me a wonderful starting point to begin! Thank you!

[Anthony Barragan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic

A simple quick book. Very basic stuff. A few good pointers. Mostly things heard again and again in other books and videos. Which isn't a bad thing at all, books like this just help solidify the knowledge needed to start websites.

[Dorothy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful

Great guide for anyone planning to build a site. It is easy to read a x you do not ha e to be a programmer.

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read. Very helpful

Easy read. Contains nuggets of helpful tips
A gentle way to learn how to build a website while emphasizing on planning before starting.

[Bob Elliott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Misread the summary

Did enjoy that it was a very short summary read. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but more my own fault for not reading more about it first.

[James Girardi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book cover has changed, but the content is still the same on how to plan out your website design

[Judy Herrmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice short book on planning a website