Investigate Website Week 2

What designs scare you?
http://webdesign.about.com/u/ua/webdesignbasics/what-design-scares-you.htm

On this page, people commented on the question that one person put. They told the annoying, and 'scary' things about websites from their experience. Most of the people wrote very true things.

• annoying fonts that you cant read
• you cant navigate away
• shocking music that you can't turn off
• videos that make the other things on the page load longer
• flash

Accessibility
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/accessibility/

This is a page about a guide to make websites. It has tips and steps. It has many different types of topics

1. website navigation
2. content accessibility
3. logical style
4. testing your pages
5. 10 things that people hate to see in websites
6. browser support
7. 216 non-dithering colors chart
8. HTML 4 explained
9. XHTML explained
10. mobile
11. the redesign process
12. bookmarklets

"Website navigation" talks about the significance of navigating through a website for the audience. if the Wbsite is unnavigatable, then they will quickly escape the site.

"Content accessibility" is to give you information to make you aware of the different types of problems people might have that they might not be able to fully use or get information from your website. These problems could be disabilities like

• some kind of color blindness,
• reading disorder,
• or blindness.

But not only disabilities will prevent people from using your website the way you meant it to. People could have problems like

• not have speakers
• not have the current web browser
• not have a keyboard

and so on.

"Logical style" is to have people not confused while they are in your website. It talks about how you should put things in places so that it is not all over the place.

"Testing your pages" is very useful so that you know that people are actually looking at your site. If something doesn't work and you didn't test it, then people will not be looking at your site or sending a bunch of mails to you complaining.

"10 bad things" is pretty clear cut by its title. The ten things that should not be in a website are:

• Broken links
• Typos
• Under-construction
• Redesigns
• Plug-ins
• Low update rates
• Too much advertising
• No way to make contact
• Slow websites

There is one missing. I don't know why. Hypocrites.

"Browser support" talks about the different types of browsers people have and how to avoid it.

"216 non-dithering colors chart" tells you to use colors that are compatable with all computers. Not all comuters are same, so you should try to make it convenient for others.

"HTML 4 explained" talks about the new versions of HTML and ways to use it. People need to be updated so their website works becuase the codes of HTML changed from the ones in 1998.

"Mobile" says that lots of people use their phones to go on the internet so your website should be mobile compatable too.

"The redesign process" gives tips on how to make a successful redesging of your website.

Webstyle guide: 3rd edition

http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/1-process/5-list-of-reminders.html

The 3rd website was a link to a page with short and useful tips. These tips were “get to the point”, and from experienced web designers that want to help you. They were tips like “Be clear” and “Do the visuals last.”

Sources Cited

Kyrnin, Jennifer. "Readers Respond: What Design Scares You?" About.com: Web Design/HTML. 21 March 2010. http://webdesign.about.com/u/ua/webdesignbasics/what-design-scares-you.htm

Shannon, Ross. "Accessibility." HTML Source: HTML Tutorials. 21 March 2010. http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/accessibility/

"Sidebar: A List of Reminders." Web Style Guide 3rd Edition. 21 March 2010. http://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/1-process/5-list-of-reminders.html