Web Design and Usability

Jason Butcher — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:09:40 +0000

Web Design For a serious online business, its important to develop a website that is well designed, attractive, easy to navigate and highly usable. A well designed website will have relevant information, user-friendly functionalities and the capability to retain visitors, build trust and make them come back again.
A good website design takes into account graphics, content, functionality, placement of elements and well-researched use of color. Simplicity in design allows a user to focus on the important aspects of the website, such as its message, usability, functionality and the end result of meeting the objective of the website owner in terms of conversion.
Your website is a direct reflection of your brand, business, image, quality and services. The message you send to your visitors through your website pages must guide their usage of the website, and have a clear focal point. A well designed website will improve your visitors perception of your company’s capabilities and professionalism.
Good wire frame design and user interfaces form the basics for creating a well structured website with good design, layout and elements. Correct and balanced usage of web estate, white space, colors and graphics will define the overall look and feel of your website and whether you’re projecting your company image appropriately. Simplicity in design is paramount. Excess usage of gizmos, flash elements and loud graphics takes away from the essence of a well-balanced visual impact.

WEB 2.0

Jason Butcher — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:20:29 +0000

Web 2.0, a phrase is a cluster term for the new phase of World Wide Web, which was coined by O’Reilly and Media live International in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004.

After emerging of Web 2.0, it is being vastly used because of its wide range of variety and very attractive features. Descriptive list of Web 2.0 tools are endless even though we can say that the new generation of Internet approximately uses its tools.

Ajax, the rich internet application technique has prompted the development of web-sites that copy personal computer applications like (M.S. Office package) word processing, the spreadsheet, and slide-show presentation while some wiki sites replicate many features of PC authoring applications.

Before the origin of Web 2.0, Web 1.0 was known as a term ‘Web’ that was like warehouse of information and static content. Then, as time passes, with the advancement of technology and software, a huge amount of data and content became dynamic and returning custom results to users.

As the Internet world is changing very swiftly, now the users look for more than a web site instead of simple text and picture based website. They want to be more interactive to the world by sharing their views; they want to show their talents in terms of their new creation to the global world. For fulfilling these necessities, a new concept was born that have all-in-one technology in itself and it is called Web 2.0.

Before making any Web 2.0 site, the programmers must keep in mind the following things, which suits the Web 2.0 technology and the site runs smoothly on the web.

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Web Design and Usability

WEB 2.0