Web Design

Paper Summary:

The paper attempts to show how anyone with basic computer skills can create web materials using some very simple stages and steps. The paper goes through these steps that consist of understanding client/organization goals and intentions, designing the website, testing its functionality, including technical (hardware) support and facilitating universal usability.

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Introduction
Understanding Client/Organization Goals and Intentions
Design
Function
Technical (hardware) Support
Universal Usability
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"Web design is a complex process that involves the development of web materials and information that fits the goals of the function and or organization that is being developed on a website. (Lopuck 37) The development of web pages has often been thought of as a specialized area of expertise to be tackled by those who are trained in the tools used to create them, yet more recently designers have developed tools that allow any user to create web pages and host them without understanding the basic software applications that are normally used to do so. (Castro 13) Web pages, to a large degree have become an area of commonality, where nearly anyone with the ability to follow directions and use a PC can build a webpage, through basic design principles with limited skills. This trend creates a need for more basic understandings of web design that create usable pages that match the intention of the client and the purpose of the website and pages. (Mayhew 4)."

Sample of Sources Used:

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