Web Design 1
The people who will use your website.
What is Target Audience?
A diagram of the organization of a website.
What is a Site Map?
A site map for hierarchical organization.
What is Hierarchical Organization?
The process of changing the site design organization into fewer, easily managed topics or units of information.
What is Chunking?
A site or a series of pages setup to be presented sequentially.
What is Linear Organization?
When a web designer repeats one or more components throughout a page.
What is Repetition?
To place related items physically close together.
What is Proximity?
Operable content has navigation forms, or other interactive features that can be used or operated with either a mouse or a keyboard.
What is Operable?
Understandable content is easy to read, organized in a consistent manner, and provides helpful error messages when appropriate.
What is Understandable?
Content that is robust enough to work with current and future user agents, including assistive technologies.
What is Robust?
The study of color and its use in design.
What is Color Theory?
Consists of a main color, the color opposite it on the color wheel, and two colors adjacent to the complement.
What is Split Complementary Color Scheme?
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible for all people regardless of disability.
What is WCAG 2.0?
Consists of shades, tints, or tones of the same color.
What is Monochromatic Color Scheme?
Consists of a main color and two colors that are adjacent to it on the color wheel.
What is Analogous Color Scheme?
Consists of designing a site so that it looks good in browsers commonly used by your target audience and then adding enhancements.
What is Progressive Enhancement?
Is a sketch or a diagram of a web page that shows the structure of basic page elements such as the header, navigation, content area, and footer.
What is a Wireframe?
Indicates the path of web pages a visitor has viewed during the current session.
What is a Breadcrumb Trail?
To emphasize the difference between page elements in order to make the design interesting and direct attention.
What is Contrast?
While smartphones with touch controls are becoming more popular, many mobile users will not have access to mouse like controls. Although mobile devices processing speed and available memory are improving, they still cannot compare to the resources of a desktop computer.
What is Awkward Controls; Limited Processor and Memory?
An initiative of the W3C that refers to the concept of providing a single resource that is configured for optimal display on multiple types of devices.
What is One Web?
Is a term coined by noted web developer Ethan Marcotte to describe progressively enhancing a web page for different viewing contexts through the use of coding techniques, including fluid layouts, flexible images, and media queries.
What is Responsive Web Design?
Provide easy access to your website’s features with prominent hyperlinks or a prominent search button.
What is Functionality?
Sometimes referred to as a “liquid” layout, results in a fluid web page with content typically configured with percentage values for width often taking up 100% of the browser viewport.
Sometimes referred to as “solid” or “ice” design. A web page that has a content area that has a fixed width and may hug the left margin.
What is Fixed Layout?