Apr 1
caveat
"Don't believe anything you read online today. Including this, eh?"
web design
My web design course from 2006 has some useful notes and resources :
Steve Krug's book: Don't Make Me Think
- think "billboard"
- don't get in the way of normal expectations - be consistent with others' conventions
- basic questions must be easy to answer:
- What site is this? Which page am I on?
- Where can I go now? (Navigation is a big issue: linear vs tree vs search)
- How hold is this? Who's responsible? Can I re-use this stuff?
- And for the real thing: user testing.
Things to think about:
- legibility
- navigation
- who is the audience?
- uniform overall scheme for colors / layout / "look and feel"
- author, date, content
An example of one of my own pages:
In particular:
Have a discussion of what you personally like and don't like,
with specific sites, what works or doesn't work for you.
Depending on time, continue discussion of XHTML / CSS from my 2006 course,
and/or look at an example from oswd.org
The "Lorem Ipsum" stuff is described at
http://www.lipsum.com/ . It predates the web, and has been used as dummy text for typesetting since the 1500's!
Here's a template I've used before :
And here's another demo of mine, based on an oswd template:
