Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Answers to web questions

1. The importance of flexibility in design is that you can add or remove elements easily.

2. Useability is the ease at which people can get to the fatcs, or use of the website. Without digging.

3. 60k is the maxium page weight as of rule. Because users will turn away after 10seconds ona 56k modem. (Users in fact feel that 1 second is 1.5 seconds so 10 seconds will be about 15seconds to the user).

4. The use of Flash. When best used...

5. The goal of the website points to the tools required.

6. To stop people from leaving your website feeling ticked off

7. Keep the design to the point and not over flashy.

8.

4th generation web sites have all the elements of a 3rd generation web site along with the following:

  1. The proper use of markup (HTML): only structural tags in the HTML, use of CSS, proper use of structural tags in the layout ( tag order in a document for example).
  2. Respect to usability in web site design: using proven layouts
  3. Search engine aware web pages and web site.
  4. Well structured - easily updateable.
  5. Automatically printable with CSS media type linked CSS files.
  6. In a nutshell: a web standards compliant website.

9. A standard computer with internet access. There is no need to draw millions of vertexs or to process a warehouse, and you need an internet connection so you can upload your site, and test it in the real world sitution.

10. Light Images are images that don't kill bandwidth. They are small, and serve there purpose.

11. 80/20

12. Image Optimization, is the process of compressing, or drawing the line where quality and size. This is done with the use of filters.

13. We optimize images, by using applications designed for image processing which contain the required filters and compression algorithms.

14. JPEG is best used for images with 16bit or 24bit colour and or photos. While GIF is best used for documents, 8bit graphics.

15. Rules are made to be broken, this is invalid generally when used with computers, because they are outlined in its programs so there isn't much choice. But with webdesign, you must stick to the rules if you want your website to be seen and used for the purpose it was created for.

2 Comments:

Blogger Jude said...

11. 80/20????

gif also support transperancy and animation

11:34 am  
Blogger Jude said...

Well done - got cut off before i added that!! thanks Edward

11:42 am  

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