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The fundamental organizing principle
in Web site design is meeting users' needs. |
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about structuring information today stem largely from
the organization of printed books and periodicals and
the library indexing and catalog systems that developed
around printed information. |
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World Wide Web pages differ from
books and other documents in one crucial respect: hypertext
links allow users to access a single Web page with no
preamble. For this reason Web pages need to be more
independent than pages in a book. For example, the headers
and footers of Web pages should be more informative
and elaborate than those on printed pages. |
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goal is to provide for the needs of all your potential
users |
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primary task of graphic design is to create a strong,
consistent visual hierarchy in which important elements
are emphasized and content is organized logically and
predictably. |
| Graphic
design is visual information management, using the tools
of page layout, typography, and illustration to lead
the reader's eye through the page. Readers first see
pages as large masses of shape and color, with foreground
elements contrasting against the background field. Secondarily
they begin to pick out specific information, first from
graphics if they are present, and only then do they
start parsing the harder medium of text and begin to
read individual words and phrases: |
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