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What is the fundamental principle for organizing website design? meeting users needs

List the five basic steps to organizing information.

• Divide your content into logical units
• Establish a hierarchy of importance among the units
• Use the hierarchy to structure relations among units
• Build a site that closely follows your information structure
• Analyze the functional and aesthetic success of your system

Briefly describe the three essential structures for organizing websites.

• Sequences: to list information in cronological order
• Hierarchies: the best way (most organized)
  
• Webs: very free easy to get around

What is the risk of “eye candy”? you cant build a website on one piece of eye candy

How might programmers utilize site diagrams as they move a new website project from planning to production? in a web or hierararchy

How does the concept “above the fold” impact page design decisions? you want the interesting information towards the top

3 Principles of Design

The aqufina website uses all the elements of design. It uses contrast by having different shades of blue to indicate different places to navigate. It uses repetition by having all the colors of blue, only in different shades. It uses alignment by having all the things in one general area, not all over the page. It uses proximity by having all related items together.

Colors

I am creating a webpage for a lanscape architect. My background color would be #7DAD79. My navigation color would be #5C8059. My text color would be #B7CC8F. My main color for the banner and other key images would be #5A817B. I used an analogous color scheme because it efficiently shows the different areas of the site.

Below is my color scheme.

 

color palette

1. When eight bits of memory are dedicated to each pixel, how many potential colors could be displayed on each pixel? 256

2.What are the three basic colors that monitors transmit? Red Blue Green

3.How many different colors are there in the browser-safe palette? 216

4.Describe the “compromise” or accomodation the Web Style Guide recommends for people with 256 color displays. you could mix navigation graphics done in browser-safe colors with full-color JPEG graphics.

5.Are the majority of people we refer to as color blind unable to see any color at all? Explain. Yes, they only cant see red and green colors.

6.According to the WebAIM site, what is the key concern when using colors to convey important information?
you dont want them to be the only way to obtain information

4 elements of design

The kleenex website uses contrast by having all the colors on the site simmilar and by having all the different areas in boxes/rectangles.

 The hulk website uses repetition by having all the lines a gray color they are all the same size too. Also the text is all green or white. The theme for the site is hulk colors.

The eurosport website uses allignment by having  all the navigational links on the sides and having the ad’s in the middle. It also uses allignment by having simmilar ideas in the same area.

 

The  apple website uses proximity by having the ipods in the center of the screen. This makes them the visual point of the site. It also does this by haing the website spread out.

Aquafina