Web style guide reading
This week's reading was a guide from the very first step to the last for creating a web site.
The website, http://www.webstyleguide.com/, started by making sure that we know why and how we are creating a website. It accentuates on the fact that we have to be organized in the preparatory work and confident on the design to be able to deliver information to any type of visitor. The process section of the reading is really focused on creating a commercial website, not a student profile website like I am building now.....
The next section, "interface design" is a section that basically tells you what are the minimal logic presentations so that a internet visitor can find his way around. This goes from the button bar to the style sheet, etc...
The "site design" and "page design" are obviously the longest sections; I found them really interesting because the more you read into the sections, all the informations becomes more than logic. I really saw as I was learning that the reason that I stay on a site longer rather than an other one, is because of its coherence and simplicity of use as shown in the readings. The "site design" section gives an example and suggestions to each type of site, in order to deliver informations properly. It tells you how to adapt to your visitors and think like them.
The"page design" section focuses more on how the individual parts of information can be delivered, and how you might want to know more informations "while you are here". This includes aspects of consitency, page sizes, frames, page layouts, colors, cross-platform issues, etc...I learned about the importance of the typography in a web site, and how it is exactly what the visitor came here for....not to see my nice colors and cool navigation bar, no! It is to read well written info, with enough space to make the reading easier, in a reasonable font.
The graphics sectio is also an extremely important part of a web style. To make a really long story really short, the graphics section is closely related to the page and site design. Except the empahsis is not where we place things but how we place these elements there. The types of colors used for different objects, the size and types of images, the tricks to have better color settings, etc, etc...All these issues are discussed here.
Eventhough I learned a lot by reading this, I felt it was a little redundant; infos were mentionned a couple time in different watys and obvious recommendations were also given.
I would still higly suggest anybody wanting to create a website for the first time, or to whoever feels they are beginners in that domain, to read this informations.....
The website, http://www.webstyleguide.com/, started by making sure that we know why and how we are creating a website. It accentuates on the fact that we have to be organized in the preparatory work and confident on the design to be able to deliver information to any type of visitor. The process section of the reading is really focused on creating a commercial website, not a student profile website like I am building now.....
The next section, "interface design" is a section that basically tells you what are the minimal logic presentations so that a internet visitor can find his way around. This goes from the button bar to the style sheet, etc...
The "site design" and "page design" are obviously the longest sections; I found them really interesting because the more you read into the sections, all the informations becomes more than logic. I really saw as I was learning that the reason that I stay on a site longer rather than an other one, is because of its coherence and simplicity of use as shown in the readings. The "site design" section gives an example and suggestions to each type of site, in order to deliver informations properly. It tells you how to adapt to your visitors and think like them.
The"page design" section focuses more on how the individual parts of information can be delivered, and how you might want to know more informations "while you are here". This includes aspects of consitency, page sizes, frames, page layouts, colors, cross-platform issues, etc...I learned about the importance of the typography in a web site, and how it is exactly what the visitor came here for....not to see my nice colors and cool navigation bar, no! It is to read well written info, with enough space to make the reading easier, in a reasonable font.
The graphics sectio is also an extremely important part of a web style. To make a really long story really short, the graphics section is closely related to the page and site design. Except the empahsis is not where we place things but how we place these elements there. The types of colors used for different objects, the size and types of images, the tricks to have better color settings, etc, etc...All these issues are discussed here.
Eventhough I learned a lot by reading this, I felt it was a little redundant; infos were mentionned a couple time in different watys and obvious recommendations were also given.
I would still higly suggest anybody wanting to create a website for the first time, or to whoever feels they are beginners in that domain, to read this informations.....
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