Workshop 1 - Web

Instant impressions - the average web user gives a website 5 seconds before deciding if they like it or not and want to spend more time on it

The content should be what makes the website look good

Design should be functional, content should be appealing

If the website is successful you should be able to determine the answers to these questions

To answer these questions:

Conduct surveys, focus groups, look at similar websites, 

What is the point/ purpose of the website?

Who is the target audience?

What does the target audience need?

Limitations when designing for the internet

Font

www.fontsquirrel
http://www.speaking-in-styles.com/web-typography/Web-Safe-Fonts/

Colour

Hexadecimal code

Size

Screens are all different sizes, a website designed for a larger (1280 x 1240) will be massive on a smaller (800 x 800) screen.

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/mcah2/pdf/training_resolution.pdf

Images

72ppi, out of date, most screens today have 96ppi. Retina display has 227ppi

HTML - Hypertext mark up language

Every website is built out of html

URL - uniform resource locator

CSS - an add on to HTML, if you were to only use html the website would only be made up of text. (Cascading Style Sheets)

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

CMS - Content management Solution - get paid a monthly fee for updating the information on the website or set up a CMS so that the client can update websites themselves.

WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get

Glossary of terms:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesignhtmlatoz/a/blglossary.htm

First Website:
This is the basic design that we decided on in the workshop