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Website Design Guide
Introduction
Organize
Style
Audience
Page Size
Layout
Font
Unity
| Divide into 5 -7 section | The overall structure of a site should be logical. In general, sites should be divided into about five sections, give or take two. A nice example of this rule can be found at Cascade Ski Club Site which divided the course into just a few sections: | |||||||||||||
| Make your site only three links deep | Don't make
people click through too many successive pages to get from point A to
point B. The rule here is, "You shouldn't have to travel through more
than five pages from anywhere to get to the content you want." Try for
three links. The further your visitors have to travel, the more of them
you'll lose along the way. Some people have a hard time navigating from
the Portland State University Home page because the actual content is
buried to deeply to find. So try to strike a balance between presenting
too much information at once, and a relatively flat hierarchy. |
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| toolbar should be discreet, elegant, and efficient. | Because it will
probably appear on almost every page of your site, the toolbar should be
discreet, elegant, and efficient. While visitors may initially be
impressed by the magnificence of a large toolbar, they will eventually
get annoyed. If it's large in dimension, it will take up too much
valuable screen space. If it's a large file (too many kilobytes), it
will take too long to load (see file size). Make it easy on
everyone--keep your toolbar small. Notice on this page, the toolbars use
smaller typeface than the body text, and use a different font to make
them stand apart from the body of the document. |
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