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The fundamental organizing principle in Web site
design is meeting users' needs. |
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Concepts about structuring information today stem
largely from the organization of printed books and
periodicals and the library indexing and catalog
systems that developed around printed information. |
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World Wide Web pages differ from books and other
documents in one crucial respect: hypertext links
allow users to access a single Web page with no
preamble. For this reason Web pages need to be more
independent than pages in a book. For example, the
headers and footers of Web pages should be more
informative and elaborate than those on printed
pages. |
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The goal is to provide for the
needs of all your potential users |
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The primary task of graphic
design is to create a strong, consistent visual
hierarchy in which important elements are emphasized
and content is organized logically and predictably. |
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Graphic design is visual
information management, using the tools of page
layout, typography, and illustration to lead the
reader's eye through the page. Readers first see
pages as large masses of shape and color, with
foreground elements contrasting against the
background field. Secondarily they begin to pick out
specific information, first from graphics if they
are present, and only then do they start parsing the
harder medium of text and begin to read individual
words and phrases: |
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