May 1, 2009
week 2 questions
•What is Browser-Safe Color Palette / Web-Safe Colors?
a color palette that consists of 216 colours (instead of 256). 216 instead of 256 because only 216 will display exactly the same on all computers
•Is it still relevant in today??s context? Why?
because there are people still using old computers, which are limited to 256 colour displays
•What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?
Arial
Arial Black
Palatino
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Times New Roman
Verdana
Impact
Symbol
Webdings
Gill Sans
•What is page loading time and how it influence your
design?
Page loading time is the amount of time taken to load a page. One reason a page usually takes longer is due to its need to refer to external objects, because time is needed for separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets.
By having a huge page loading time, people will not even want to look at your design/cannot look at it. As such, your desing becomes completely useless.
•http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/webdesign-
and-worflow-process-comparison/
Read about Web Design Process article above and
write what you think about it (at least 150 words)
I realise that the essential and most basic steps are usually always in the list. However, they may or may not be in the same order.
Comparison:
Instructional Design Process
Analyze
Design
Develop
Implement
Evaluate
Breakdown of the ideal web design process
1. Know what you’re doing
2. Know what the site needs to do
3. Know what the site’s visitors want
4. Get a good picture of the personality and style of the web site
5. Sketch out highly successful scenarios
6. Organise views into a site map
7. Sketch the essential features & look
8. Map your visitors’ attention
9. Arrange the visual elements to work together
At a glance, the steps look very different. But “analyzing” really is exactly the same as step 1 – 3 of the “Breakdown of the ideal web design process”. The first steps of “design” is to do sketches according to the style and personality of the web site, which is step 4 – 5. Similarly, “developing” is the same as steps 6 – 9, which is optimising the concept idea into something that is visually pleasing. “Implementing” is already suggested by the hands-on instructions in the second list of the web design process. I believe that while evaluation was not mentioned in the second list, it would be smart to evaluate using the criteria of steps 8 – 9, and thus finding ways to improve your web design.
Similarities like these can be found in all of these lists. Also, I find that they are generally listed in chronological order.
