Week 4 Blog - Web Design Hints

I have read a webpage about"Web Design Hints".

1. Easy to read, Easy on the eye – use the light pastel-colored backgrounds and dark text
2. Background colors – prevent use the grey background color
3. Images – use the less file size of the page to prevent the loading time
4. Colors and hyperlinks – different colors for indicating whether visit the page or not
5. Page Design – break into small page to avoid the scrolling
6. Navigation –good and well-organized navigator menu
7. Construction – do not put the construction image or text
8. Maintenance – use the CSS for separate the contents and layouts.

** Remark ** There is one wrong thing in this article. Formatting with tables is not good way for the web design. We should use the
for formatting the information and layout.

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Week 3 Blog - K.I.S.S

According to Blog 1, there is one special term called "K.I.S.S.". Therefore, I want to find more interesting things about this topic for week 2 blog.

K.I.S.S. does not mean the word kiss.

K.I.S.S stands for Keep It Simple Stupid.

This rule is used to design a web-site in user-friendly tones, presenting all information and removing unnecessary details.

In this article, there are many different kind of designs as the followings:

1. White Space and Simplicity in An Overview
2. 50 Beautiful Web Designs in 2006
3. 45 Fresh Designs
4. 30 Dark Designs
   

After reading those kind of designs, I realize that designing a good WebPages can be not very complex. I just need to simplify it into small piece to develop.

The advantage for using this rule, it can improve readability and make a great first impression.

To sum up, the K.I.S.S Principle can divide into two things:

1. People (including product and service users) generally want things that are simple, meaning easy to learn and use.
2. Company that makes products or furnishes services may find simplicity an advantage for the company as well, since it tends to shorten time and reduce cost.

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Week 2 Blog - 12 Steps To A Better Website

I have read an article called "12 Steps To A Better Website".

In this article, I learn there are twelve things to notice making the website as the following:

1. We need to know our target audience. Different target audiences will have different demands of the webpage design and content.
2. We need to have clear and decisive theme. The visitor can get the idea of the website is after reading the first paragraph of the index page.
3. We need to reduce the loading speed. No visitors want to wait for loading the content of the webpage.
4. We need to reduce the "click time" or "drill-down time". Visitors want to get their required information within 3 clicks.
5. We need to make consistency in the webpage design. Do not use too much different colors to indicate the same type of information.
6. We need to give enough contact information and clarification to increase the credible.
7. We need to have guaranteed to refund when the product is not suitable for the customers.
8. We need to make the payment process clearer, easier to use.
9. We need to provide the search engine for user searching their inquiries.
10. We need to validate the webpage through W3C. It can check whether the site have any bugs.
11. We need to make the webpage more compatibility through different kind of browsers.
12. We need to have two to three keywords in the each page.

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Week 1 Blog - Basic of Web Design

I have read an article about the Basic of Web Design

There are some hints for designing the webpages.

• Reducing the image file size - reduce the loading time
• Using the graphics - present the aims of the site
• Not use the blink images - distracting and annoying to the user
• Using the serif for headlines and Scans-Serif for text - Scans-Serif font much easier to read and print firendly page
• Not use many number of different fonts - can be used 2 or 3 standard font
• Not post many adventment in the site - the site will lose a lot of space
• Supporting multiple browsers - different users use different kind of browsers to go to your site.

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