Web Design Best Practices for Engaging and Effective Websites, Study notes of History of Education

Download Web Design Best Practices for Engaging and Effective Websites and more Study notes History of Education in PDF only on Docsity! Some tips for a Good Web Site Impression on first entry The surfer sees something meaningful within 8 seconds The first page is less than 20K, and images are kept small Text is visible (and held steady) while graphics are loaded The Homepage is exciting, interesting, attention-grabbing There is useful information on the Homepage The Homepage looks good, and has a clean, uncluttered look Not distracted by excessive animation or flash The Homepage contains the key facts Name of Organization (preferably in H1 text heading) Shows business, products, where based Style appropriate for target audience Shows the sort of information available in the site Shows name, address, telephone, fax, Email TITLE is meaningful Links are clear and meaningful Not more than 7 options in any menu Image-links are appropriate and consistent Image-links have ALT words and supported by text-links The whole site has a structure It is clear what the structure of the site is Useful content is not more than three clicks from the homepage There is a List of Contents or a Site-Map with links to every page Each web-page has links back to the Contents or Site-Map There are appropriate links on to other useful pages Search tool is provided if appropriate All the pages obey the same rules Each web-page has a proper title The title shows why users should look at this page