OUGD504 Design for web: Consideration

OUGD504
DESIGN FOR WEB
CONSIDERATIONS


3 questions to ask yourself when designing a website

- What is the purpose of the website?

- Who is the target audience?

- What do the target audience need?

How to answer these questions:
- focus groups and questioning people on the streets is a way that businesses answer these questions
- talking to the target audience and asking them what they want 
- researching into other websites

Common elements in every website

- navigation bar
- type
- image

Limitations of designing for web

- size - spacial resolutions
design for the lowest resolution (800 x 600) as the common denominator so it can be displayed on every different screen size or design at the next size up (1024 x 640) for it to be viewed on larger screens as this isn't much bigger than the smallest size.

- resolution - images

- fonts - licence fees for using fonts for commercial use
limited selection of font families for use on the internet

- colour
making colours on a website universal by using a websafe colour mode


Website coding/scripting languages & terminology 

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

When creating a website, you need to buy a domain name and hosting (physical space on a web server). 

CMS - Content Management System


Creating a Scamp for our websites

Dimensions:
1024 x 768

Font family:
Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif

Alignment:
central

Background + background of webpage:
white

Navigation:
across the top - roughly 70%