Week 6 Links and Info

links Week 6

Key to good website design

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dwmx_design_tips.html

Get to know your audience and design for them

Test your site with inexperienced web users

Make the content on your first page rich and explanatory

Archive content after redesigning or changing a site

Include useful search terms in meta tags and titles

Description is a short description of the site. This needs to be explanatory and it is not a marketing message. When this comes up in a search engine, it is your chance to tell the potential visitor what your site has to offer.

Keywords are words that are offered to search engines to help them display your page to people who are searching the web.

Provide contact and copyright information on every page

Set up your navigation system to help users find what they are looking for

Provide search options

Maintain consistency of design

Think about noise, movement, or anything that spins twice

Proofread the text on your sites

Provide printer-friendly pages

Breadcrumb Navigation Useful

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html

Enhance your pages—don’t replace them

Key to good website design

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dwmx_design_tips.html

Get to know your audience and design for them

Test your site with inexperienced web users

Make the content on your first page rich and explanatory

Archive content after redesigning or changing a site

Include useful search terms in meta tags and titles

Description is a short description of the site. This needs to be explanatory and it is not a marketing message. When this comes up in a search engine, it is your chance to tell the potential visitor what your site has to offer.

Keywords are words that are offered to search engines to help them display your page to people who are searching the web.

Provide contact and copyright information on every page

Set up your navigation system to help users find what they are looking for

Provide search options

Maintain consistency of design

Think about noise, movement, or anything that spins twice Proofread the text on your sites

Provide printer-friendly pages

Breadcrumb Navigation Useful

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html

Enhance your pages—don’t replace them

Optimizing Animated GIFS

http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/

GIF Animation Shareware Programshttp://www.tips-tricks.com/k_gifanimation.asp

SWF (Flash Animation) is different than GIF animation. GIF animation is a simple, frame by frame animation of RASTER images, layered on one another.

Flash is a rich-media application and animation file format that creates VECTOR images (and has the ability to embed RASTER images).