An Overview of Web Design
A web design is essentially its look and feel. A good design should take into account all the web elements-audience information, purpose and objective statements, domain information, and web specifications-and combine them to produce a plan for implementing the web. Web implementers then use this design and the web specifications to create a working web.
Web designers make many choices about how to best achieve the effects called for by the web-planning process, the purpose and objective statements, and audience information. Web designers also draw on a repertoire of techniques for packaging, linking, and cueing information using one or more design methodologies. Throughout this process, they should be sensitive to users’ experiences of the web’s information space, texture, and cues. Very practical issues are involved in design, such as considerations for inline images and graphics, how much to put on a single page, and which text or images should be made a link as opposed to which should not. Over time, web designers gain a sense of judgment and experience on which they draw, ultimately making web designing an art in itself.
The web design process, however, is just one process in the interlocking web-development processes. A successful web requires that all processes and all elements work together. By separating the design from the implementation process, information about the web’s structure and operation can be cast in a hypertext, language-independent form. Whereas the design process is influenced by knowledge of what is possible in the target design language, its product can be implemented in any language that can capture the features used in the design. In this way, this design process can be used with successors or alternatives to the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
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July 13th, 2010, posted by kate