The Design Of A Website

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the comprehensive impact of design. Enhanced awareness of the world; deeper, broader thinking about problems and opportunities; a respect for the historical roots of and formal conventions of design; planning and diligent study are required to create interesting global web-site designs.


What?
subject:
Web site design on the Internet
Focus:
Web site design in the future.
Objectives:
To identify web-site designs that work, and to identify the reasons to why they work.
Why?
With the increasing number of web-sites that are coming online daily, in order for them to work, they are more dependent on good design for attracting readership than print is.
How?
By examination of the most frequently visited web-sites, and although a historical approach with reference to print in design.

Section Two

Design is the Answer

What?
Web sites need to be far better designed than anything in the print medium, due to the very interdisciplinary nature of the web-site.
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Web’s real pathfinder.
How does the designer achieve this goal?
By drawing up an agenda for good web design.

Section 3 and 4

Where does good web design come from? I believe that the principles print informed quality print design for hundreds of years and that these principles are equally valid online.

TEN RULES OF DESIGN FOR THE WEB

1. Put content on every page.
Design should not be decoration. It must convey information. Or entertainment. Content should come to the surface on every single level. Avoid useless and confusing icons, e.g. a navigation bar that has a ? for help.
Make sure the content is easy to read quickly.
Break the text into smaller segments. On ...

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