Designing for the web
Towards the end of 1990 the WWW was released
Withing CERN
Guides
Are for introducing new users to a website, like a tour or tutorial. Have sequential navigation
Site maps
Are like contents in a book
Local navigation
Are often sub-sites and can be developed and maintained seperately
Site indexes
Are similar to book indexes and compliment site maps
What are the two types of navigation?
Browser based and embedded
Personalisation
Dynamically generating web pages for different users (systems guess what users want)
Customisation
Giving users control over a combination of contents and presentations (users decide what they want)
Websites can convey these messages
Informational, Visual, Navigational
Contextual navigation
Links are specific to a page (connect to related content)
Effective webdesign needs to consider
Look and feel
Mosaic influences
Netscape navigator and Mozilla Firefox
What types of design are crucial to usability
Organisation and navigation
In 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Proposed a global hypertext project
Every web page must be
Self contatined
Global navigation
Should be present on every page. Can include home and search
Supplemental navigation mechanisms
Sitemaps, indexes, guides
In 1990 Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Started working on a programme called the WWW
In 1993
Students at NCSA developed Mosaic
In 1991
The WWW was made publicly available
Embedded Navigation can be divided into how many types?
Three (Global, local and contextual)
Web design decisions are divided into
Two categories (Visual and structural)
Navigation tools include
URL entry, back and forward buttons, history and favourites
