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Build Web Sites To Web Design Standards
"Studies of user behaviour on the web found a low tolerance for difficult designs or slow sites. People don't want to wait. And they don't want to learn how to use your web site. There's no such thing as a user manual for a web site. People want to be able to grasp the function of the site almost immediately after scanning the site for a few seconds at most." - J. Nielson (useit.com) Always User Centric Design All web sites need to consider it's visitors, your prospective customers... Sounds obvious but it's astounding how many web sites don't! Most web sites are unusable, unreadable or fail due to poor design standards and lack of testing. Web Standards - W3C Validated Your web designer / coder should know about professional web standards and practice user-centric web design as part of our quality assurance. Good designers are registered members of GAWDs and UKWDA who lobby for better designed web sites to the W3C guidelines. Why Bother with Web Design Standards? Using advanced coding practices such as xHTML and CSS and checks for readability, usability and accessibility helps in many ways. WHY? Because your site will be faster to download, work in more browsers and on more PCs (Apple Macs included) and be seen by more people than a site not coded to these standards... GUARANTEED! World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): The W3C are the guardians of web standards that ensure web designers and developers have a coherent direction & blueprint for professional web design. They provide validation tools and conformance badges to show a web site has passed their web standards. A good designer will constantly achieve these standards and wear the conformance badges with pride... It's your guarantee that the web designer know what he is doing! Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com For more information on Web Design Standards - go to www.digitalidiom.co.uk |
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