Abstract
Developing Web contents involves shaping and making many choices involving technical, aesthetic, and usability concerns. With the expanding technical options for communication on the World Wide Web, it is tempted to focus only on issues such as hypertext markup language (HTML) syntax, page layout, or the latest and flashiest technologies. However, there needs to be a broader approach in order to articulate the information content that is to be conveyed. There is also a need to pay attention to the characteristics and qualities of the Website as a medium for communication so that there are not merely duplicate practices intended for paper and other media.
In order to develop a broader perspective of Websites, developers can draw on many existing concepts from technical communication and software engineering practices. This report is will briefly describe the importance of web design and how innovation can better improve websites on the internet.
A web's design is essentially its look and feel. A good design should take into account all the web elements-audience information, purpose, and objective statements, domain information, and web specifications and combine them to produce a plan for implementing the website. Web developers then use this design and the web specifications to create a working website.
Web designers make many choices about how to best achieve the effects called for by the web-planning process, the purpose and objective statements, and audience information. Web designers also rely on a repertoire of techniques for packaging, linking, and cueing information using one or more design methodologies. The design process, however, is just one process in the interlocking web development processes.
Designing a web involves considering the user's experience and meeting the user's needs by shaping information. In doing this, it should be strive to follow the principles and goals of a user centered web design process to develop a web efficiently, is consistent, and is aesthetically pleasing.
The web designer understands a user's experience of information space, texture, and cues, and uses design techniques to package and link information in a way that best meets a user's abilities and needs. A designer can approach the overall process of web design by using a top-down, bottom-up, or in-time/incremental methodology. A web designer uses a variety of techniques to specify the look and feel of the web through a cluster diagram showing web packages and pages, through a link diagram, or through a universal grid for an overall pattern for page development.
In the world of web design there are many different programs that people use. The two most common, and most controversial, are Microsoft Frontpage (FP) and Macromedia Dreamweaver(DW). In this report we will be discussing the pros and cons of each, comparing the two in detail, and resolving the issue of which is better.
The first step in developing the website will be selecting a name and uniform resource locator (URL) (Wallace, 2014). A name that is unique, but easy to remember is the best choice. The next step is to design the website. A hierarchical website architecture will influence consumer’s flow and decisions with professional aesthetics. We will want to use HTML 5 code to allow the ability to support different browsers with different
Design is crucial to any webpage you create. Without effective design, it doesn’t matter how good your logic is or how many different things you can do with it. The user does not care whether or not you put your life into that webpage. If it doesn’t do what they want and make it easy to do, the user will find another that meets their needs or desires. As superficial as it may seem, a user cares most about what’s on the surface of your webpage. Maybe your webpage is faster or does things smarter than somebody else’s, but if their design is better, people are going to prefer theirs over yours. A good design is comprised of many different elements. A key aspect of which is color choice. However, even more important than color when making a successful webpage is the user’s patience.
In the middle of 2000s, a new trend started, the web started transforming from static documents linked together into an interactive publishing platform. Suddenly, visitors could leave comments on the web, create accounts on various services a...
...eloped under the auspices of the World Wide Consortium (W3C).A certain amount of metadata is already provided for Web site resources using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
A good web interface design is an important factor that helps users “interact” with computers. In the present, web interfaces need to be presented and designed in a way in which it can be easily received by the user. In the design field, the elements users see on a computer screen such as the text, graphics and icons etc. make up the interface of a web page (Dabbs, 2002) . Users rely on the interface to complete online tasks and interact with computers and maintaining consistency is an arguably important principle to follow in order to design a good interface. Designers, handbooks and guidelines from the late 20th century to the present stress the importance of consistency, especially physical consistency, the graphical appearance and the visual characteristics of an interface. With many previous studies and experiments, there has long been the question of whether physical consistency in user interface design, in this case, web interface design is an important factor within Human-Computer Interaction (Axelsson, 2012) . The aim of this essay is to explore whether the physical consistency of web interface design is important in terms of user performance and satisfaction.
Nielsen, Jakob. "Short Take: The future of Web design from one who knows it." http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/short033001.htm
With better hardware, differences in terms of appearance and layout may diminish. At the same time, more powerful software and a better understanding of interactive information objects will increase the differences in terms of interaction and user control. Current web designs are insufficiently interactive and have extremely poor use of multimedia. It is rare to see a web animation that has any goal besides annoying the user.
Website would of course not exist without the invention of the internet, which came out in the 1960s. It was first only allowed to be used by the government so they could efficiently transfer data from one computer to another. It is said that the first website was made sometime in August of 1981. (Arandilla, 2011) The first free web browser program for public use was released in the 1990s and was called Mosaic. HTML is split up into five generations, HTML being the first version and HTML5 being the latest version out. HTML coding was first introduced in the early 1990s, but it didn’t give web developers a lot of room to be creative since they were limited by how slow the internet was when it first came out, also because it was brand new and so only basic coding was in HTML. When web developers began to start making their own coding to help them become more free and creative, so in order to have a universal HTML coding the next version came out being HTML 2. Now the internet is faster and more coding mean more control and creativity web designers can be. In 1995 HTML 3 was released and many new additions came out as well. Microsoft released Internet Explorer and designers can now input animated images called “.gif” in thei...
HTML and CSS is used to confine a webpage. It does so much for creating a webpage though it may take long when creating that. Creating a webpage follows steps to meet the objective of the client. When creating a webpage you need to think about your plan first on how to do these things. It is also like building a house which you’ll include planning of structures etc..
University of California at Berkeley (UCB), LSCR: How to design a good website, [ONLINE]. Available at: http://lscr.berkeley.edu/advice/web/design. [Accessed 17 March 2014].
The first most commonly used programming language is Hypertext Markup Language, or commonly known as HTML. HTML is the standard mark-up language used to create web pages. According to Shanon (2007), HTML is a language created for computer to read human command to develop websites. Human can view the websites by connecting to the Internet. HTML started as an easy way to transfer data between computers over the Internet. The earlier objective of designing HTML is for scientists and researches that do not have any experience
Gao, Yuan. Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior. Hersey PA, USA: Idea Group Publishing, 2005. Print.
Having a website is a necessity nowadays, especially for people who are in business. Having a website helps promote your company’s services, for consumers to view and research your products easily, and also because internet is universal, people worldwide could purchase your products. Aside from business purposes, a website could also be built for personal use. If you’re into blogging, you can have your own site to express everything you want or feel; a website could also be used to inform people. Due to technology’s fast evolution, creating a website is now a very simple task even for those who have no background in web designing, all you need is a working computer and an internet connection and you’re ready to create your very own site!
The most important task of developing and designing a web page is the gathering of information. You first need to brainstorm about what you would like the web page to consist of. Collect everything that you want to become part of the web page, from editorials and graphics to company information and history. It may be a good idea to get your hands on as much data as possible, and then decide what is to be used in the web page. Whatever material that you do not used may be discarded later. All information previously gathered is categorized in a hierarchy form from the most important to the least important.