The design of a website
The design of a websiteContents
Page 1 Title page
Page 2 Contents page
Page 3 Section One
Introduction
Objectives:
To identify web-site designs that work, and to identify the reasons to why they work.
What? Why? How?
Page 4 Section Two
Design is the Answer
What? Why? How?
Page 5/6 Section 3 and 4
Where does good web design come from?
TEN RULES OF DESIGN FOR THE WEB
Page 7/8 NINE RULES OF WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN DESIGNING WEB PAGES.
Page 9 Section 5.
Conclusions
What was the question ?
What defines a well-designed web-site?
Page 10 Bibliography.
Section One
Introduction:
We are standing on the precipice of a new culture? Sceptical, questioning connected with the world, thirsting for information and change. Technology is driving society at a pace unparalleled in history creating new attitudes, interrelationships, and global awareness. A new consumer is emerging, suspicious of traditional media sources, incredulous of advertising, and contemptuous of the contrived the hyped, the false.
This consumer is not easily persuaded by clever graphics or manipulated by fads in design.
In order to integrate all aspects of a ‘brands’ presentation on a web-site, the designer must move beyond form, colour and type and embrace 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.
Why?
Because a magazine with even minimum design gets its information across to the reader. You buy it because you care about the issues in its headlines, if you want more you jump inside, ‘print’ by its nature is a tactile phenonenom; touch, smell and accessibility, and it is for that reason it will never die.
But web-sites are purely visual and aural, one screen at a time. Encouraging the viewer to go beyond the first layer, even learn where to go for what is required is a common problem for designers. It is their job to bring the viewer inside through the "Dance of the seven veils",and once inside, guide them, not to confuse or frustrate them.
How?
Web-sites that work are sites that do what you want it to do. They do...
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