BAD TAGS
Some tags are bad because they are out of date and don’t work with browsers that most people have now. Like, “u could be used to underline elements. It remains that underlined text is still associated by many with links. This is why this tag died a long time ago – you really don’t want to be underlining non-linking text”. Also, it’s not good to use “font” anymore because you have to put it all over the page after using <p>, whereas with CSS you can put in one code and it works for the whole page. Don’t use marquee or blink anymore. NOT GOOD!
Organizing a Website
1: What is the fundamental principle for organizing website design? The fundamental principal for organizing a website design is meeting user’s needs.
2: List the five basic steps to organizing information.
- Divide your content into logical units
- Establish a hierarchy of importance among the units
- Use the hierarchy to structure relations among units
- Build a site that closely follows your information structure
- Analyze the functional and aesthetic success of your system
3: Briefly describe the three essential structures for organizing websites.
- Sequences: Everything is ordered in a sequential path.
- Hierarchies: The best way to organize complex bodies of information.
- Webs: Are the most difficult to understand because they show information for different things.
What is the risk of “eye candy”? Eye candy can be too distracting sometimes and make people distracted form the main purposeof the website.
How might programmers utilize site diagrams as they move a new website project from planning to production? Site diagrams are excellent for planning both the broad scope of the site and the details of where each piece of content, navigation, or interactive functionality will appear.
How does the concept “above the fold” impact page design decisions? You have to decide what is the most important and make it fit “above the fold” on the web site.
Web Standards.
Web standards are set so that everyone one, on every computer, can easily read and see what’s on the web page. The W3C created these standards because they wanted everyone to be able to read and understand all the content on every website made by anyone. If someone doesn’t follow these standards for their web page, some people might not be able to see it.
Color Theory
When eight bits of memory are dedicated to each pixel, how many potential colors could be displayed on each pixel? One of 256 colors.
What are the three basic colors that monitors transmit? Red, green and blue.
How many different colors are there in the browser-safe palette? There are 216 colors in the browser-safe palette.
Describe the “compromise” or accomodation the Web Style Guide recommends for people with 256 color displays. One compromise is to mix navigation graphics done in browser-safe colors with full-color JPEG graphics.
Are the majority of people we refer to as color blind unable to see any color at all? Explain. No. Most people can see colors, maybe not the exact color, but a shade of a color.
According to the WebAIM site, what is the key concern when using colors to convey important information? People that are color blind completly can’t differenticate the colors, so they can’t understand what information you’re trying to put out there.
Colors
I picked to do my webpage for a medical clinic.
I used the triadic color scheme.
Main background color= #009999
Font color= white.
Navigation bar color= #50E650
Main color in banner= #008F00
Website Evaluation 5
This website uses good proximity, alignment, and contrast. It’s really easy to navigate around. The colors aren’t too much, but they use the same concept all the way through.
http://www.google.com/
Website Evaluation 4
PROMITIY: Everything that is related to one concept should be placed closely together on a web page rather than spread apart. If it’s a different subject than space it farther apart.
http://www.feliciapeters.com/
All the different tabs and pictures are sized and placed according to importance and subject.
Website Evaluation 3
REPETITION: There should be same patterns and colors repeated through the web site. Not any new colors and patterns out of now where.
http://metalmulisha.com/
On this web site they use all the same patterns and colors over again so it looks good all together.
Website Evaluation 2
ALIGNMENT: Nothing should be placed just anywhere. It should look clean and well put together and not cluttered.
http://www.apple.com/.
It looks very clean and everything is lined up perfectly.
Website Evaluation
CONTRAST: This is the thing that gets you into wanting to look at the page. If done correctly, you can read through all the information easily and see what you need.
http://www.nofear.com/ .
As soon as you look at it you just want to look more into it and it’s super easy to get around.
