Web Design Tips for Presenting Information
As you design Web pages, think graphically even when all you're presenting is pure information. Good Web page design means you present information by organizing it logically and making it visually attractive. Use the following tips to keep browser eyes on your information pages:
Prioritize and group navigation into a primary, secondary, and tertiary set, each containing no more than five to seven items.
Build your site outline with no more than three levels: Main idea, topic, and subtopic.
Choose a standard set of symbols for the site map. Use boxes to represent pages, cylinders to represent databases, and then connect everything together with lines and arrows.
Build wireframes for each unique page layout in your site. Wireframes are a diagram view of your page layout and interaction, like the one shown here:
Web Design & Development Glossary
AJAX
asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A technique used in web page development.
Web Design & Development Glossary
API
application programming interface. A set of rules programs use to communicate with each other.
Web Design & Development Glossary
color stop
A special element that indicates a color to be added to a gradient.
Web Design & Development Glossary
FTP
File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol useful for transferring files in a client-server relationship.
Web Design & Development Glossary
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The predominant language for building web pages.
Web Design & Development Glossary
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol. The primary networking language for the Internet.
Web Design & Development Glossary
PHP
PHP Hypertext Processor. A scripting language that works well within HTML.
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socket
A technology that allows remote computers to maintain a persistent connection in order to communicate with each other.
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sprite
An graphic object on a web page that will be manipulated in real time.
Web Design & Development Glossary
SQL
Structured Query Language. A programming language useful in managing relational databases.
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stateless protocol
An Internet procedure that completely breaks the connection between the client and the server after a transaction, meaning that the next transaction will require an entirely new connection.
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Telnet
A network protocol useful in interactive, text-oriented communications.
Web Design & Development Glossary
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium. The organization that sets international standards for the World Wide Web.
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