Website designers are likened to artists who rely on inspirations before he or she could start his or her masterpiece. For a website designer every website created or developed is unique and each design has emanated from a certain inspiration that motivated the website designer. Inspirations may come in any form and may be found anywhere but for website designers inspirations may just be a click away, whether visiting a website, viewing an inspiring image online. This means that for a website designer inspiration will also emanate from the same area and that is the web. Every time a website designer browses the web he or she encounters constant inspirations from the myriad of websites that he or she is visiting but what makes this inspiration truly actual and functional is when it is applied into the website designers’ masterpiece.

Unfortunately, during the course of the viewing of such inspiring images and websites, the ability of the website designer to quickly jump from one page to another contributes in forgetting the previous image or website viewed, and when the right time comes to use such image or website for inspiration on the design of a new website the website designer can no longer trace the image and the website, sometimes forgetfulness really gets the best of us. It is because of this reason that sharing this tips in website design seems imperative as of the moment because of the fact that this dilemma is not only confined to selected website designers but are actually one of the common problems being encountered by most website designers. It may seem to be a minor and a trivial problem but when placed we look closer we actually spend so much time trying to recall the image’s or websites’ URL.

Thus the formulation of the Inspiration folder, this is not a technical how-to strategy guide on website design, thus what you see on the name is actually what you get. Meaning, the inspiration folder is actually a folder that will contain all the images and websites that you have seen and where you think this website or image will actually be useful in your future website design endeavor. Creating the folder is easy and trivial thus it does not merit a discussion on it, not on this article at least. Storing the images from the website that you visited to your hard drive is easy you can use the right click function of your mouse and then click the save command, or if provided by the website you can just click on the link that will allow you to download the image or images then store it in the folder that you have created.

How about for websites? One very easy way is to get a screenshot of the website, this is done by pressing Alt+Printscreen when using a PC and Shift Command 4 then Space to turn the cursor into a camera then press Ctrl to and click on your target area on your screen, which is obviously the browser window displaying the website. This will now make the captures screenshot on your clipboard and you now have to open your image editing software and paste the captured images. After that you can now save the file onto the folder that you have previously created. Now you have a collection of inspirations that you can easily access whenever you require it.