Style and TechnologyWeb design means more than just turning a text file into HTML, using a homepage wizard, or squeezing text into a standard layout template. A website isn't a book, photo album or advertising brochure - your visitor has to operate technological equipment in order to use it. That's why style and technology have to go hand in hand. Good web design must lie within the following marking posts: The website's appearance has to match the content and the target group. In the case of commercial pages, it is important to adhere to corporate identity. The range of visitors able to read the website without any great technological effort has to be as large as possible, which means without requiring a special browser or plug-in technology - not everyone downloads the latest browser every few months. Specialised HTML tags that can only be read by certain browsers should be avoided as much as effects that need long download and installation procedures, which always pose a security risk to the user. A visitor should be able to view the website as fast as possible without waiting for the individual components to trickle down the line. Hardly any user would be prepared to wait several minutes for that last picture to finally appear on the screen. That's why web designers should observe the following guidelines: - Show details - |
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