In website design, your job is to reduce the amount of ambiguity in your web pages. Before visual aesthetics, studies have shown that usability and utility are the most important aspects of website design that will determine a site’s longevity and popularity.
A web page is made up of two visual elements, HTML with live text and backgrounds, and graphics in JPEG or GIF format which browsers display in-line. Since you have to make these in separate applications, it’s tempting to be lazy about using the same color scheme for each.
Striking visual impact. Instant appeal, instant identity. Compelling navigation system. Everyone loves your web site. The links keep flowing in, and your counter grows and grows. Before a month is out, you have a hot search engine ranking, a write-up in a top directory and a handful of willing contributors. No kidding. Plus, your web site looks damn good. It’s a dream, right?
A web page is made up of two visual elements, HTML with live text and backgrounds, and graphics in JPEG or GIF format which browsers display in-line. Since you have to make these in separate applications, it’s tempting to be lazy about using the same color scheme for each.
Striking visual impact. Instant appeal, instant identity. Compelling navigation system. Everyone loves your web site. The links keep flowing in, and your counter grows and grows. Before a month is out, you have a hot search engine ranking, a write-up in a top directory and a handful of willing contributors. No kidding. Plus, your web site looks damn good. It’s a dream, right?