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Designing e-Portfolio Website ( Part 3 ). Lan Vu. Overview. Some techniques in web design Demo on creating & designing website What make a good website Practicing with your own site. Some techniques in designing your web page. Design Techniques. Design Layout For Webpage
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Overview • Some techniques in web design • Demo on creating & designing website • What make a good website • Practicing with your own site
Design Techniques • Design Layout For Webpage • Design Theme For Website
Design Layout For Webpage • Layout of web pages is very important • Poor layout makes for - • Difficult navigation • Hard to locate information on page • Visually unappealing
Design Layout For Webpage • Use tables for easy laying out your pages • Make the table borders invisible • Example: a layout with 2x2 table Header Menu Content
Examples IMAGE HEADER MENU CONTENT http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~smm/
Examples Use 2x3 table One column is used as divider http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~smm/
Examples Header Content http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~acarle/
Examples http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~acarle/
Examples Sub table Main table http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~acarle/
Examples Complex layout http://www.gdgib.com/
Examples One main table http://www.gdgib.com/
Examples Some sub tables inside main table http://www.gdgib.com/
Examples • Some more tables insidesub tables http://www.gdgib.com/
Design Layout For Webpage Steps of designing layout webpage with table • Add table • Adjust the width of table and cells • Format the table • Table borders (invisible/visible) • Table background (transparent/color/image) • Using Style in Properties box in Visual Studio • Add content to cells
Design Techniques • Design Layout For Webpage • Design Theme For Website
Design Theme For Website • Create a consistent look throughout your website • Let visitors know they are still in your website while browsing different pages • How? • Use a common layout for all pages • Use color of texts, links, buttons and graphics… reflecting that color theme
Design Theme For Website http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~hughesal/ Index.html contact.html research.html publications.html
What make a good website? • Good website design is NOT just about pretty colors, groovy graphics, and knocking out code. • BUT a terrible look can certainly kill a site. • Good website design requires a good planning
What make a good website? • Content • Well-organized • Easy to navigate • Attractive • Up-to-date
Content of a Personal Website • Who is my website for? • What do they want from the website? • What do I want from the website?
Content of a Personal Website • Who is my website for? • To your target audiences • Prospective employers • Your advisers and professors • The news media and the general public • Avoid making your reach too broad or too narrow • What do they want from the website? • What do I want from the website?
Content of a Personal Website • Who is my website for? • What do they want from the website? • Ask some of your target audiences for the answers • Do the references on similar sites • Example: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/GradAffairs/gradhomepages.shtml • People visit your website for the information about yourself, so make sure you provide enough • What do I want from the website?
Content of a Personal Website • Who is my website for? • What do they want from the website? • What do I want from the website? • Your own goals for the site are important • Employment • Scholarships • Internships • Publish course work to professors • Content allows you to establish yourself as an expert in your field
What make a good website? • Content • Well-organized • Easy to navigate • Attractive • Up-to-date
Organizing the content • Listing most of content in the homepage http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jemins/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~stauffer/
Organizing the content • Homepage features highlight information and sub pages give more details. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mjohnson/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~yurym/
Organizing the content • Homepage is introduce page and details are on sub pages which is accessible from menu
Sample of bad content organization http://www.havenworks.com/
What make a good website? • Content • Well-organized • Easy to navigate • Attractive • Up-to-date
Easy to navigate • A well-organized generally drives the ease of navigation. • Keep scrolling down to a minimum by keeping individual Web pages short. • Always have links back to your home or major sections. • Use color to identify for users where they are in your site.
Information is grouped clearly for easy navigating http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~acarle/
Using menu for easy navigating http://www.catanzaro.name/
Using menu for easy navigating http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~hughesal/
What make a good website? • Content • Well-organized • Easy to navigate • Attractive • Up-to-date
Make your site attractive • Choose simple colors that compliment each other & work on most web browsers. GOOD COLORS BAD COLORS http://www.huntgraphic.com/moto.htm http://www.catanzaro.name/
Make your site attractive • Avoid backgrounds that wash out your text. BAD USE OF BACKGROUND http://home.comcast.net/~dmaneyapanda/zugorific/personal2.html
What make a good website? • Content • Well-organized • Easy to navigate • Attractive • Up-to-date
Keep your site up-to-date • Have your site completed before public it • You may keep it simple but NOT under construction • Update your site continuously with new artifacts, evens and achievements
Long pages, too much scrolling, boring text No structure No navigation Overwhelmed with multimedia big images too many images and/or video clips obnoxious noise, background music boring or aggressive animation Bad images (poor quality) Using too many colors, fonts, blink Some Design Mistakes
Decide layout for your WebPages • Decide an theme for your website • Complete your website with many pages • Add links • Add graphics
References • http://ls.berkeley.edu/lscr/advice/web/design • http://www.successdesigns.net/articles/entry/characteristics-of-a-good-website/ • ttp://www.coastline.edu/departments/webservices/cis111/week2/html.pdf • Riyadh, How to create better departmental and researchers websites, Workshop Best Practices in Content Management and Scientific Social Networks, 1 – 3 November 2008