To have a website with good design the website needs to be user friendly aswell as aesthetic. The website needs to therefore be accessible to people with handicaps such as the blind who may want to use a screen reader to read a website. Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
So that sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software such as a screenreader.
The current state of the website http://www.thewho.net/australia is fairly user friendly, because the website adheres to level 1 of the W3C accessibility standards (http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/) it makes the site very user friendly. Although for the average user the site isn’t so user friendly with a confusing contents page with a lot of links that could easily have their own separate page. Most websites are managed to be very user friendly so that people return to visit the site, so by changing the sites structure it will make the site more user friendly so that users will return to the site more often.
Each page should have the website banner at the top of the page which should also double as a link to the home page to make the website flow allot smoother and make it more user friendly for the viewers of the site.
These simple steps will make the website a lot more user friendly.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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The most common mistake in creating a website is quite often the design. Most people usually go to overboard in the design of their personal website, or do the opposite and don't do enough to make the site more appealing or creative. To begin designing a website there are several stages you must adhere too. Web design first requires conceptualization, without a concept the designer cannot have a vision for the site. after the concept has gone through its various stages the website then needs to be planned out, this can be the most important part in designing a website, without the plan the website usually will not function and you can easily get lost in the structure.
Finally you must model your website and execute the electronics media content and its delivery via the internet using various technologies, such as markup languages which are a set of codes that give instructions regarding the structure of a text or how it is to be displayed. After all this it should be ready so that the website is then suitable for rendering and presentation by web browsers or other web-based graphical user interfaces, or GUI (graphic user interface).
Some websites are often quite dull and lifeless for example here. This is an example of a website that has very little web design, which is why its a perfect candidate to be re-designed. Sometimes quite often a website gets re-designed once the moderator sees it ass a neccesary thing to do, which is why i will be re-designing this site.
The website http://www.thewho.net/australia/ is a website in a very niche market, its main demographic would be 40 – 60 year olds who live in Australia and follow the rock band The Who, although other age groups may visit the site to find information on the band in Australia they are such a small minority that the site is not aimed for them. Because of the bands current tour to Australia this March many Australian fans are turning to this site for information about tour dates, competitions and anything else related.
In the websites current state it faces many aesthetical and functional problems that can be fixed and updated to make a more user friendly website. Although the sites purpose is ultimately to inform people about anything relating to the band in Australia, it can also serve as a place for people to watch videos and look at photos from past tours and entertain people who would like to visit the site.
Aesthetically the site is very plain and just basic HTML. The site also needs a new structure with a contents page that is easily accessible. The website has a few broken links to other websites that need to be removed or fixed depending on the link. The site is serving its purpose but to get to a larger audience I propose a complete overhaul of the site, almost starting from scratch to create a new, more functional website that will best serve its purpose.
Finally you must model your website and execute the electronics media content and its delivery via the internet using various technologies, such as markup languages which are a set of codes that give instructions regarding the structure of a text or how it is to be displayed. After all this it should be ready so that the website is then suitable for rendering and presentation by web browsers or other web-based graphical user interfaces, or GUI (graphic user interface).
Some websites are often quite dull and lifeless for example here. This is an example of a website that has very little web design, which is why its a perfect candidate to be re-designed. Sometimes quite often a website gets re-designed once the moderator sees it ass a neccesary thing to do, which is why i will be re-designing this site.
The website http://www.thewho.net/australia/ is a website in a very niche market, its main demographic would be 40 – 60 year olds who live in Australia and follow the rock band The Who, although other age groups may visit the site to find information on the band in Australia they are such a small minority that the site is not aimed for them. Because of the bands current tour to Australia this March many Australian fans are turning to this site for information about tour dates, competitions and anything else related.
In the websites current state it faces many aesthetical and functional problems that can be fixed and updated to make a more user friendly website. Although the sites purpose is ultimately to inform people about anything relating to the band in Australia, it can also serve as a place for people to watch videos and look at photos from past tours and entertain people who would like to visit the site.
Aesthetically the site is very plain and just basic HTML. The site also needs a new structure with a contents page that is easily accessible. The website has a few broken links to other websites that need to be removed or fixed depending on the link. The site is serving its purpose but to get to a larger audience I propose a complete overhaul of the site, almost starting from scratch to create a new, more functional website that will best serve its purpose.
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