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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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