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Written by Linz
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Sunday, 19 June 2005 |
There are many people out there in the world today creating pages for
the web. Does it matter how these web pages look? I would say that it
does but it depends on why you are creating them.
If you are creating web pages for an interest group, then the
information is probably more important than the design. If you are
creating a web site for a corporation, business or an artist then the
design would matter a great deal.
The design of a business web site needs to say a lot about where they
are at as an organisation. Are they up to date with the latest trends?
Does the web site have correct look and feel for how they want to be
portrayed? Does it convey information in a manner that is easy to
understand and navigate?
These are just some of the issues you need to consider when you are designing a web site project.
The design principles for paper based information are well
established and have been for many years. Designing for the web also
has well established principles that have been drawn from the print
media. Over recent years, the introduction of broadband internet access
has changed the way we need to think about designing web sites. The
incorporation of video, animation and sound has altered the principles
by which we design web sites and we now need to incorporate principles
from different media when considering a web project. Static elements
such as images and text combined with video, sound and animation create
an interactive medium that is still evolving and needs the input from
many disciplines to establish some sort of standard for design.
As designers, it is our responsibility to keep up-to-date with the
trends and developments and to have an input so as we can better serve
the online community and bring them informative, entertaining and
easliy navigable information. This will not be an easy task as there is
quite often strong disagreement about what is good design but that does
not mean that we should not try to establish good design principles, it
just take some time for suitable standards to evolve.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 August 2005 )
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