Hi everyone! So, today I'd like to share a little opinion about why updating a website is important and how to build the process in general.
Well, let's go!
🌊 Design first
Never, remember, never, even if you are a senior developer with over 40 years of experience, make a website without a design in Figma or PSD!
This is just stupid. Just understand that manually selecting colors, indents, fonts - this simply increases the time for layout by 2 or even 3 times. Especially if you are not a designer by profession. Taking my experience, I have been making websites my entire career, but I am simply not cut out to design them. It is not as easy as it seems at first glance. They would not teach this in universities if it were so easy, believe me.
So if you want a good website, you need a good designer - that's a fact.
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👀 Website layout is not the main thing
When we were making the site, I noticed one thing, that first of all you need to think about what you are doing and why, and then how. That is, WordPress, Tilda, Next.js - it all doesn't matter until there is a vision of what to do at all.
But how should the vision appear? In fact, when it comes to the site, try to just think what you would tell as an advantage about your product, based on this, try to spy on other sites, reinventing the wheel is a rather labor-intensive idea, and adapting ready-made solutions is not bad, but, again, you can’t copy, otherwise the whole point of creativity as a site is lost.
🕒 Time is more important
Money is not an important resource, but time is valuable. Making a website for months can be a trivial waste of time and effort if you do it alone. It's just pointless, so even if you're good at coding, find help anyway - it's important!
Because without a team, the process will soon be as follows:
It's always easier to develop with a team!
📖 HMPL Site Update Experience
Initially, it was obvious that the site design was simply awful. Naturally, it was necessary to find options on how to remake it.
To do this, first of all, you need to decide on the blocks, draw up a technical specification for the designer and roughly understand what to do in general.
✅ Results
Working with the team took about 2.5-3 weeks, plus finishing the site. You can see the result here and compare the old site and the new one:
Old site 📺 - https://web.archive.org/web/20250107141619/https://hmpl-lang.dev
New site 🖥️ - https://hmpl-lang.dev
Thank you all for reading the article!
Top comments (3)
Great article! Congratulations on the site update!
Thanks!
The previous version of the site, I'm looking at it now, looked just awful. This one looks okay, but it can always be prettier!
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