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Web Design Considerations: Maximizing Impact and Accessibility

This article discusses the key design issues in creating effective web pages, including the importance of content, the use of multimedia, usability rules, and document structures. It also emphasizes the need for planning and control in web design.

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Web Design Considerations: Maximizing Impact and Accessibility

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  1. LIS1510Library and Archives Automation IssuesMounting informationon the Web Andy Dawson School of Library, Archive & Information Studies, UCL(University of Malta 2008) Andy Dawson

  2. What we will be covering today • Why use the Internet? • Considerations for effective Internet publishing • Key design issues • Practical – more creating web pages with HTML

  3. Why the Internet? • Popularity • Costs • Simplicity • .... Hype?

  4. Why provide information on the Internet? • Sell goods or services • Raise awareness • Advertise • Improve access • Collect data

  5. Check your reasoning • What do you want to achieve? • Know what you’re doing, and why • Can the Net/Web do it? • Can you reach your target? • Is there a better way?

  6. Don’t forget Email-related services • Horses for courses • Accessibility & effort • One-offs vs sustained presence • Nettiquette & Spamming

  7. The Client-Server concept • The importance of the technology • The need for a server • Options for implementation • DIY, Internal, ISP, Consultancy • Using a service provider • “Free” space and support costs

  8. Service issues • More in lecture 10 • Linking to databases etc • Advanced processsing - CGI scripts, APIs, PHP • Client-side and server-side processing • Financial transactions • Resource ramifications

  9. Design issues • Why will users come? • Content is King But that said… • Artistic design vs Technical design • A picture is worth...?

  10. Text Cat = 3 bytes CAT

  11. Line cat (bmp): 3,000 bytes

  12. Real Cat (bmp)= 375,482 bytes

  13. Design issues • Why will users come? • Content is King But that said… • Artistic design vs Technical design • A picture is worth...? • Still pictures - moving pictures! • Visual accessibility issues

  14. Design issues • WYSINWTG • Predictability • PDF and alternatives • Java and dynamically –driven sites • Page layouts • Usability rules • Consistency • Key elements • The “lowest common denominator”approach

  15. Document structures • People like structure... • Structural types • Sequential • Heirarchical • Web • Hybrid • Document structures and navigability

  16. Storyboarding and structural preparation • The importance of control and planning • The value of storyboarding • Start on paper – ALWAYS! • Tools for control and maintenance • Freestanding tools • “Environmental” tools • Problems with presentation-oriented tools and compatibility

  17. That’s it for today! • Any questions? • Now more practical work! • Tomorrow: More XHTML (and CSS)

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