[WDEC] PART:1-Introduction to web design

[Web Design Essentials Course] PART:1

Web design, this term that almost everyone would love to try one day, is actually a fun process. Web design or the process of creating the look and feel of a website is all about delivering the content in an easy appealing way to the visitor. As an ambitious web designer, you should always consider your visitor’s needs and requirements. So always put yourself in the visitor’s seat. What he would like to see? How would he go about finding the information he came for to this website in the first place?
Web design has a lot of important concepts to consider. During this course we’ll try to explore Usability, Accessibility, Functionality and a lot more.
Web design crosses multiple disciplines of multiple information systems, information technology and communication design. The web site is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, video and audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design
In the following image, take a look at Yahoo website some 13 years ago. (Yes Gif images were a really big thing back then :) )
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Now in the time of writing this course, you can easily notice how web design evolved ever since to reach what we see as given facts now. Notice the layout design which aims to help the visitor to find the information he might be looking for in the easiest and the quickiest way possible.
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In the next part we’ll discuss the harsh reality about the internet in general and in web design. See you then! :)

Web design, this term that almost everyone would love to try one day, is actually a fun process. Web design or the process of creating the look and feel of a website is all about delivering the content in an easy appealing way to the visitor. As an ambitious web designer, you should always consider your visitor’s needs and requirements. So always put yourself in the visitor’s seat. What he would like to see? How would he go about finding the information he came for to this website in the first place? Web design has a lot of important concepts to consider. During this course we’ll try to explore Usability, Accessibility, Functionality and a lot more.

Web design crosses multiple disciplines of multiple information systems, information technology and communication design. The web site is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, video and audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills. In the following image, take a look at Yahoo website some 13 years ago. (Yes Gif images were a really big thing back then :) )

www.yahoo.com as it looked like in 1996 through the time machine

www.yahoo.com as it looked like in 1996 through the time machine

Now at the time of writing this course, you can easily notice how web design evolved ever since to reach what we see as given facts now. Notice the layout design which aims to help the visitor to find the information he might be looking for in the easiest and the quickiest way possible.

www.yahoo.com at 26th October 2009

www.yahoo.com at 26th October 2009

In the next part we’ll discuss the harsh reality about the internet in general and in web design. See you then! :)

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