Initial Reactions
ollymoss.com
black
boring
negative space
plain
empty
produced using indexibit
The content of the website should make it look good, not the design.
www.malikafavre.com
busy
colourful
flashing
garish
produced using cargo
www.360langstrasse.sf.tv/page
urban
german
http://noble-design.co.uk/
vector
japan
Questions to ask yourself.
What is the purpose of the website?
Who is the target audience?
What do the target audience need?
http://cat-bounce.com/
To entertain
Cat lovers
To be entertained
Ask the target audience what they expect/ want to see.
Navigation, type & image = website
Limitations
Size - resolution of images, some screens eg. retina display is 227dpi whereas some screens are still 72dpi. Sizes of screens range from 800 x 600 to 1680 x 1050.
Typeface - most typefaces installed on all computers eg Arial, helvetica, georgia, verdana are all free to use until it comes to using them commercially. To avoid paying for these fonts then there are variations of fonts available to download online from websites like dafont.
Colour - Must use websafe colours when designing for web, available in photoshop colour picker, tick the web colours only box, select a colour and it gives you a code.
HTML - Hyper text markup language
CSS - Cascading style sheets
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
CMS - Content Management System
Dimensions
1024 x 768
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