Final Word
This article was first published on July 13, 1998.
Preparation is very important and will aid the designer of the Site produce a Web Site that is suitable to your needs whilst complying to the various restrictions of the software and hardware used by the people who will visit your Site. This second factor is important if you would like these people to visit your Web Site again and recommend it to others, after all they are your audience and maybe potential customers.
It is worth spending some time developing your Web Site's structure and organising its content. It will save time in the future as updating and making new additions to the Web Site will be easier if pages are properly organised.
Here is a list of all the summaries in this article:
The Target
- Who you want to visit your Web Site.
- Age group you want to attract.
- What will encourage them to visit your site.
Content
- What information you intend to publish.
- Whether it would be enhanced with photographs or diagrams.
- Why you want to publish the information.
- How visitors will benefit.
- What will bring visitors back.
- Whether the information would have to be updated.
Organisation
- How can the content be broken up?
- Does the information need to be read in a certain order?
- Would an index (A-Z) be appropriate?
- Use suitable headings and titles.
Navigation
- The complexity of the Web Site.
- Would navigation be made easier with the use of Frames?
- Does every page need to be accessed from all others?
- Should icons be used?
- Can the Web site be split into different sections?
Limitations
- The time it takes for a page to download.
- Browser compatibility.
- Screen size.
- Number of colours available to the viewer.
- Users of text-only Web Browser software.
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