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.
