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... Its use ranges from a means of communicating and sharing information to the convenience of online shopping, and as the technology becomes more familiar, the challenge is for web site designers to respond to the needs of consumers wanting quick and easy access to the information they seek.
This report looks at the changes that have occurred during the recent past to the design and accessibility of web sites. It includes historical background information, and examines some web site design issues as the typical ‘Welcome to my homepage’, menu driven, icon encrusted model is gradually being replaced by a design-driven format. ... Web pages were displayed top to bottom, left to right, with a wall of text or sequence of images separated by carriage returns, bullets and horizontal rules. ...
Site Design
Most web sites contain information that users seek in small ‘chunks’. ...
Four basic steps in organizing information can be identified: divide the material into logical units, establish a hierarchy of importance and generality use this hierarchy to structure the relationships amongst the chunks, then finally analyse the resulting web site for functionality and aesthetic appearance.
Information chunks
Most information on the Web consists of short reference documents that are read non- sequentially. This is particularly true of educational, corporate, government and organizational web sites.
Approximate Word count = 1060
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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