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This concise handbook helps students across the curriculum build web sites, a skill they can use both in college and in the workplace. The guide covers two essential elements: usability and the structure of an effective site. Students learn the importance of determining a web user's short- and long-term goals before developing and testing a site. In addition, students discover different methods of designing a site and creating devices for smooth navigation--plus the key concepts of structure and page layout. Includes a fully integrated web site.
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Introduction 1. Activity: From Readers to Users in Contexts 2. Users and Contexts: An Overview of Key Issues Thinking About Users 3. Understanding Users' Contexts 4. Understanding Users' Goals 5. Finding Out About Your Users Thinking About Structure and Layout 6. Structures: Organizing Sites 7. Pathways: Elements of Navigation 8. Layouts: Formatting Pages
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Designing Effective Web Sites is an excellent guide to the important issues involved in web design. Intended for students creating web sites for English Composition courses, the text addresses two crucial elements that are essential to designing successful sites: users - who will view the site and how they will use the site and structure - the relationships among different pages and the layout of the pages. The book covers all the main concepts for these key issues including - users' context - short and long term goals of the user - testing - design sketches - navigation devices To aid additional comprehension of concepts numerous screenshots, charts and worksheets have been incorporated throughout the text. The authors own accompanying web site includes a wealth of useful resources including further guidance on web design, templates and graphics for constructing sites and links to other sources.
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