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Chapter2-Website Design and Development

The document outlines essential steps for website design and development, emphasizing the importance of understanding the purpose, target audience, and user experience. It provides rules for creating user-friendly websites, such as considering the user's perspective and adhering to interface conventions. Additionally, it highlights the organization of files and proper naming conventions for web files to ensure accessibility and functionality.

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Chapter2-Website Design and Development

The document outlines essential steps for website design and development, emphasizing the importance of understanding the purpose, target audience, and user experience. It provides rules for creating user-friendly websites, such as considering the user's perspective and adhering to interface conventions. Additionally, it highlights the organization of files and proper naming conventions for web files to ensure accessibility and functionality.

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Internet Programming

CHAPTER 2

Website Design and Development


Web design
To design website there are some steps. so we must
follow these steps. The steps are list as follow.
Step 1
• Think!
– Before you do anything else, you need to spend time
thinking about the 4w’s.
• What is the purpose of the web page/site?
• Who is your target audience?
• What will bring your audience back?
• Where will your audience be using the site?
Step 2:Follow The Rules
– To create a web site you must follow theses rules:
• Rule 1: YOU are NOT the USER.
– What you understand is not what a user will
understand; ask the users to design the site the way
they want.
• Rule 2: USERS are NOT PROFESIONALS
– Users will not think carefully about the new added
features in the Web site without your directions.
• Rule 3: Give the common user a little control
– Allow the user some choices and the ability to
control color and themes on their accounts.
Step 2:Follow The Rules
Rule 4: Make sure the visual contents of a site
relates to its function.
A nice-looking design must enforce the website
functionality
Rule 5: Respect GUI and Web interface conventions.
Designers need to respect conventions of navigation
choices, navigation placement, colors, and so on.
Rule 6: Know and respect the Web and Internet
medium constraints.
• Don’t ignore the differences in the emerging Web
medium, color reproduction, bandwidth
limitations, and so on.
Step 3
• Go on a Roundup.
– Locate images, files, animations, etc. that you
might use and place them in your www
directory. It is important that all files be in the
same folder.
– If you are going to work at home or some place
other than the university computer lab, create
a WWW directory on the hard drive, USB drive
or whatever.
Step 4
• Open Website designing tools like
Dreamweaver , FrontPage , SeaMonkey,…and
SeaMonkey
start designing your web pages.
• Save your work often!!!!!!!!
– Typically we name the home page in a web
site “index.html”
index.html
Note:
Naming Web Files:
• Use all lower case (it will be easier to communicate
the URL to others if it is all lower case).

• DO NOT have spaces in file names (some old


browsers cannot handle spaces. You should rename
graphic files if they have spaces)

• Try to keep file names as short as possible (this


prevents errors in typing in URLs)

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