...offer. Successful web design relies heavily upon a visual concept. Without effective visual design, almost everything on the internet is meaningless. It is visual design that grabs people's attention and encourages them to analyze the piece more carefully. The internet is a primarily visual realm, which is why interactivity, visual elements, and new technologies are such important aspects of great web design. “Since the 1990s (and really, for a select few people, even before that) website design was something that developed very, very quickly and changed rapidly over time. Website companies across the board have taken time and care to make sure that they are innovative and pushing boundaries, while also providing for viewers, visitors, and customers everything that they could possibly need to get the most out of their respective websites and other uses. Today, HTML5 looks poised to be one of the website designs of the future, but how exactly did we get here to where we are? And where have we come from with web design theory and practice, to reach 2013? Back in the early 1990s, HTML (the first iteration) was considered major website technology and innovation. Since then, CSS 1 and CSS 2, Javascipt, Flash, XHTML1, and even AJAX more recently have all come under as the hottest new thing in web design, some lasting mere months before something better innovated across the board. To get to where you are, though, you must know where you’ve come from – and with web design, that process...
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...needs for specific information, they must also consider any constraints imposed on them by their users’ hardware, software, and speed of connection to the Internet. Today, a single operating system (Microsoft’s XP) dominates personal computer market. Similarly, only two Web site browsers are favored by the vast majority of users. More than ninety percent of users have their monitors set to 1024x768, 800x600 or 1280x1024 pixel resolution. And while most users at work have high-speed Internet access, many home users still connect using dial-up. Within the constraints of available time, money, and resources, it is usually impossible to design for all users. Therefore, identify the hardware and software used by your primary and secondary audiences and design to maximize the effectiveness of your Web site. 4 Hardware and Software R e s e a r c h - B a s e d We b D e s i g n & U s a b i l i t y G u i d e l i n e s 30 4:1 Design for Common Browsers Guideline: Design, develop and test for the most common browsers. Relative Importance: Strength of Evidence: Hardware and Software Comments: Designers should attempt to accommodate ninety-five percent of all users. Ensure that all testing of a Web site is done using the most popular browsers. Sources of information about the most commonly used browsers: • http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html • http://www.thecounter.com/stats/ Sources: Evans, 1998; Jupitermedia Corporation, 2003; Morrell, et al., 2002; ...
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...| |Web Design I | Copyright © 2009, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces effective Web design principles and the essential role of the Web designer in today's business environment. Topics covered include site architecture, page layout, navigation, content, functionality, and usability. Students will evaluate existing Web sites and apply best practices to prototype a unique design using a Web authoring application. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Huddleston, R. (2009). Master visually Dreamweaver® CS4 and Flash® CS4 Professional. Indianapolis: Wiley. Sklar, J. (2003). Principles of Web Design (2nd ed.). Boston:...
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... | | |Web Design I | Copyright © 2012, 2009, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces effective Web design principles and the essential role of the Web designer in today's business environment. Topics covered include site architecture, page layout, navigation, content, functionality, and usability. Students will evaluate existing Web sites and apply best practices to prototype a unique design using a Web authoring application. During this class you will develop the skills to plan a Web site by creating a Project Proposal for a five-seven page Web site. Refer to Appendix A for details on the sections submitted in Week 2, Week 3, and Week 7. During Weeks 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 you will complete the Toolwire Labs and Exercises to create HTML Pages using Dreamweaver. These Exercises/Labs are submitted to the Assignment Section of the Classroom. During Weeks 4, 5, 6, and 8 you will apply what you learned in the Labs/Exercises by building a two page Web site. The Web site will consist of the index.html and one additional html page based on the Web site you are planning in the project proposal. You will complete portions of the Web Site each week. The complete project is completed in Week 8 with the Web Site Prototyping...
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...The Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior Tao Zhou, Yaobin Lu and Bin Wang 2010, Information Systems Management 2012 The Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior Tao Zhou, Yaobin Lu and Bin Wang 2010, Information Systems Management 2012 Analysis of “The Relative Importance of Website Design Quality and Service Quality in Determining Consumers’ Online Repurchase Behavior” Buying products and services on the Internet has become more popular worldwide. According to Zhou, Lu and Wang, (2009), over 298 million people use the Internet with 24.8 percent of these people making online purchases (p. 327). Website design quality and service quality are both important, but how do these affect consumer behavior? Website design definitely affects the first purchase of an item as customers as they eagerly decide to buy or decide not to buy, but what factors determine whether customers continue to buy? Website design quality is important because attracts customers to keep coming back to the website whether it is a simple thank you to keeping track of customer orders that have become complicated. Website design quality attracts customers to the website while service quality makes a difference by taking care of the service needs of the customer. Zhou, Lu, and Wang (2009) hypothesis that “compared with website design quality, service...
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...WEB 407 Complete Course Material(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 3 Times, Rating: A+ WEB 407 Week 1 DQs WEB 407 Week 1 Individual Assignment / Encrypted Login Page WEB 407 Week 2 DQs WEB 407 Week 2 Individual Assignment Database WEB 407 Week 3 DQs WEB 407 Week 3 Individual Assignment Database Justification Memo WEB 407 Week 4 DQs WEB 407 Week 5 DQs WEB 407 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Web Application --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB 407 Week 1 DQs(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 0 Times, Rating: No Rating What is the importance of cookies on security, page lifecycle management, and usability? Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following: Why is it important to use standards such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) when managing secure data on the Internet? What do SSL and other security measures provide to users and organizations? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB 407 Week 1 Individual Assignment / Encrypted Login Page(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 2 Times, Rating: A+ Create a well-designed and aesthetically-pleasing login page. You may use a login page that you have created in a prior course. Alternatively, you may add your own basic CSS to the Login Page template provided on...
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...Course Design Guide IT/237 Version 5 1 Course Design Guide College of Information Systems & Technology IT/237 Version 5 Intro to Web Design II Copyright © 2012, 2009, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces development tools and techniques used to publish Web pages on the World Wide Web. Students use basic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), scripting, and presentational technologies to create ™ websites without the aid of a software authoring application. Topics include XHTML, CSS, JavaScript , server hosting, site publication, site maintenance, and search engine optimization. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Bojack, H. (2010). New perspectives on blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Introductory (2nd ed). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning. Gosselin, D. (2011). JavaScript (5th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning. Software Dreamweaver CS5 provided...
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...Usability Report Design Human Computer Interaction Fauzi Akbar – u3097985 Table of Contents Table of Contents2 Introduction3 Evaluation4 Background4 User and User Task4 Currency5 Consistency6 Page Layout7 Security8 Instrument9 Background9 Design and Process Evaluation9 Optimizing User Experience9 Accessibility9 Currency9 Page Layout9 Navigation10 Consistency10 Security10 Conclusion10 Reference List11 Introduction Process of Evaluation This report is the evaluation of the Gumtree website at http://www.gumtree.com.au/ The usability report represents the process of developing an evaluation instrument specifically for the evaluation of the Gumtree at http://www.gumtree.co.au/. The evaluation was directed to determine the quality of the website using the instrument that was made base on HHS guidelines. The data was collected from the website using an evaluation instrument that was developed (see document 1). HHS guidelines and WCAG 2.0 guidelines were used to create a set of criteria for the evaluation instrument (see document 1). The instrument was used to determine and describe data about: * The users of the website * Who are they? * What tasks they need to do? * The Positive and Negative of the website * What can be improved? * What can be maintained? * Is the website trustworthy and safe? * Is the website easy to navigate? * The user experience ...
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...noticed that your website isn’t bringing in as much new business as you thought it would, the fault may lie in your web design Frisco TX. Very often, people who build their own websites, or who impose their design ideas on web designers building websites for them, make choices that simply don’t work. In fact, successful web design requires an eye for styles, colors, layouts and content that are not only visually-appealing but that work seamlessly with each other to make the user experience on those websites interesting and as effortless as possible. Take another look at your website to find out if you’re making one of these mistakes that make it less than user-friendly: 1 - Frisco TX Web Design: Ignoring The Importance Of...
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...Page 1 Evaluating Web-Based Instructional Design © Copyright Harold Henke, 1997, 2001 all rights reserved Author’s note: This paper was written in 1997 as a project paper for a course on Human-Computer Interaction. This paper was reformatted in June, 2001. Page 2 Table of Contents List of Illustrations...................................................................................... 3 List of Tables............................................................................................... 3 Chapter 1: Introduction .............................................................................. 4 Problem Statement .................................................................................... 4 Chapter 2: Literature Review ...................................................................... 5 Definition of Web-Based Instruction............................................................. 5 Importance of Web-Based Instruction ........................................................... 5 Web-Based Instruction Design Issues ........................................................... 6 Chapter 3: Methodology Design .................................................................. 7 Top Ten Web Design Mistakes ..................................................................... 7 Interface Design for Computer-based Learning Environments........................... 8 Measurement Scores ........................................................
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...WEB 407 Complete Course Material(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 3 Times, Rating: A+ WEB 407 Week 1 DQs WEB 407 Week 1 Individual Assignment / Encrypted Login Page WEB 407 Week 2 DQs WEB 407 Week 2 Individual Assignment Database WEB 407 Week 3 DQs WEB 407 Week 3 Individual Assignment Database Justification Memo WEB 407 Week 4 DQs WEB 407 Week 5 DQs WEB 407 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Web Application -------------------------------------------------------- WEB 407 Week 1 DQs(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 0 Times, Rating: No Rating What is the importance of cookies on security, page lifecycle management, and usability? Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following: Why is it important to use standards such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) when managing secure data on the Internet? What do SSL and other security measures provide to users and organizations? ------------------------------------------------------ WEB 407 Week 1 Individual Assignment / Encrypted Login Page(UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 2 Times, Rating: A+ Create a well-designed and aesthetically-pleasing login page. You may use a login page that you have created in a prior course. Alternatively, you may add your own basic CSS to the Login Page template provided on the student website. Apply a basic client side JavaScript®...
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...The importance of communication protocols: Unless Patton Fuller Community Hospital has an agreement between the two communicating parties information may get lost or un-communicated. This agreement is called the protocol. Communications protocols usually have a number of parts, Handshake, encoding method, compressions methods, packet / frame structure, and addressing.. This is why protocols are often defined by standards bodies, but some protocols SSL can be used widely even though they are not specifically from a standards body. A protocol must be implemented to enable effective, efficient communication by using a set of rules. Protocols are also described as hardware or software components that carry out the OSI model guidelines for transferring information on a network In short - if we don't have a protocol we won't be able to communicate between different devices. Identify the protocols in your design and provide rationale for your decision Define the overall network architecture. The design of a communications system, which includes the backbones, routers, switches, wireless access points, access methods and protocols used May refer only to the access method in a LAN, such as Ethernet or Token Ring Network architecture is the design of a communications network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its...
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... Emergint Technologies Inc 4018 Jones Street Grapevine, TX 76051 or To whom this may concern: Position of Web Developer Your need for a top performing experienced graphic and web developer is an excellent match to my professional experience. The techniques and services provided by General Synthetics (or administration )range across a wide and impressive spectrum. Aside from the variety of services provided, I was also very impressed by the multitude of published projects which demonstrates how General Synthetics (or your firm) is a leader in custom web development in a standard of excellence. In June of 2014, I have worked as a graphic and web developer at Aviv Moon Productions in Charlotte, North Carolina. During my time with Aviv Moon Productions, I demonstrated my skills and techniques with WordPress, Site animation, Php coding, Server Management, E-commerce plugins, and responsive web and mobile development. I also took on responsibilities to include: updating and optimizing the online streaming video network and various departmental internal applications. Back in June of 2008, I have worked as a graphic and flash designer at New Way Media in Charlotte, North Carolina after I've received my Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design. I also worked with Artisan Blue, which is located in Washington, DC. as a full time graphic and web developer for three and half years since April of 2009 I have more than seven years of agency and freelance experience...
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...Background Report and Bibliography As a girl, I love to shop, which like most teenage girls, I do pretty often. In order for me to go shopping, I must cross the Horace Wilkinson Bridge. One day while crossing the Horace Wilkinson Bridge, I was trapped in 5 o’clock traffic; the bridge was jammed packed with vehicles that were jammed packed with people. I couldn’t help but wonder would this bridge possibly collapse from all the weight it was holding so I decided to turn on the radio to ease my mind. As if a strange act of fate, a song entitled Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Aretha Franklin came on and I took it as a sign to research bridge design and the differences of bridges. In our society, we no longer recognize the importance of bridges, so for my project I decided to stretch the stress of bridges by testing the strength of different variations of bridges. There are multiple reasons why I feel that our society doesn’t cherish bridges as much as we should, such as the fact that I have personally witnessed people littering on the bridge as if it as nothing important to modern society which is exactly the opposite of the truth of the matter. Bridges serve a great cause in our society and are modern marvels that I metaphorically refer to as the key to a modern Pangaea based on the way they are connecting our world, even if bridges are not connecting continents, and who knows, maybe that could be a possibility one day. Bridges are structures that serve the purpose of helping...
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...Web Accessibility Standards University of Phoenix WEB434 November 11, 2011 Accessibility Standards have a Purpose The typical user of websites can see, hear, and type while navigating the site. Accessibility standards are aimed at bringing the experience of a website that may not have the same abilities in viewing, typing, and navigating a site. The Internet, information, and services should be available to everyone regardless of how an individual accesses web content. “The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability” (Accessibility - W3C). When design to a website achieves all that the web can offer to those with disabilities then accessibility standards goals have been met. Why we have Standards The Internet should be accessible to everyone and website development must consider the different kinds of access needed. The W3C “Introduction to Web Accessibility” describes accessibility scope as: “Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities” (Introduction to Web Accessibility). Even those that aren’t classified as individuals with disabilities can benefit by these standards. The functionality of a site designed to accommodate the disabled can also help those who have a temporary injury or even those who are aging and losing sight, hearing, and mobility...
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