My name is Jake and this will be my blog for Winter quarter of 2012. I am a senior at Western Washington University, and this blog is an assignment for my COMM 350 Emerging Technologies. I chose to take this class because when I gradate on March 17th 2012, I want to be a step ahead of people that I will be competing against for the same jobs!
The top ten rules of webdesign!
| One | Simple is good. All of my favorite websites are very simple. Google, Apple, Facebook, all ready simple designed websites. When I make my website I imagine it being very simple and easy to follow for the reader while still being aesthetically pleasing. |
| Two | Design is paramount. When I first visit a website, I always look at the overall design of the site. If it has a good design the site will flow well and be organized in a way that makes the reader have to the least about of "searching" possible. |
| Three | Navigation should be intuitive. This goes off of organization and "searching". The better your website is organized and there are clean and clear links to information, which will make "searching" very easy for the users. |
| Four | Consistency is key. Just like designing any sort of page (brochure, magazine, book, ect) it is very import to stay consistent for the entire piece. It will make the website much easier to follow for users. |
| Five | Color choice is critical. We have all been to websites that just plain hurt our eyes, that is not what you want to do. This rule goes off of rule number one - stay simple. You neutral colors that do not clash with each other. Do not use too many colors on one page. |
| Six | Don't forget the content. Nothing frusterates me more than visiting a website that has little information on each page, but a lot of pages! Make sure you haee a lot of information on the topic you decide to create your website about. No one wants to visit your website and feel like its "missing" something. |
| Seven | Make use of the full browser window. People with large monitors typically don't like seeing all the content of a Web page crammed into one tenth of their screen. Most sites created by Sharpened Productions scale to fill the browser window so that people with monitors of all sizes can make the most out of their screen real estate. If you need to use a fixed size, you can count on most visitors using a resolution of at least 1024x768. |
| Eight | Develop for multiple browsers. Despite what Microsoft would like you to believe, not everybody on the Web uses Internet Explorer on a Windows-based PC. That is why we check our sites in multiple browsers on multiple platforms -- to make sure everything appears uniformly. It is always best to catch problems ahead of time instead of relying on visitor complaints. |
| Nine | Check the site for errors. Just like we proof-read our academic papers before we submit them, it is important to check your website for errors! We don't want our users to come to our site and find bugs or errors. |
| Ten | Write your own code. Though we typically use Adobe GoLive to create your page layout, we also follow and edit the HTML that is being generated. When it comes to Web scripting, we write everything from scratch. While some people tend to grab pre-written scripts for every action they need, they are clueless when something goes wrong or doesn't work. It is also easier to customize the code we write, allowing us to avoid the "template appearance" of many other sites on the Web. |
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