Week 2
April 28, 2009
what is browser-safe colour palette/ web-safe colours?
A browser-safe colour palette is a colour palette used in some web browsers. The palette used by these browsers work slightly different on Macs and PCs and it only consist of 216 out of 256 colours. It is also useful for flat-colour illustrations.
is it relevant in today’s context? why?
Yes. Browser-safe colour palette helps in web design. It is useful for flat colour illustration and areas in any image that have a lot of a single color which make it looks more objectionable.
what are the common font face found on pc and mac?
Arial, Arial Black, comic sans, Impact, Courier, Tahoma, Verdana, Times New Roman, Lucida, Trebuchet MS, Georgia, Palatino, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif.
what is page loading time and how it influence your design?
Page loading time is the time taken for a webpage to finish displaying all its informations. The speed of the page loading time will determine if you have a good webpage. If the page loading time is slow, it will cos readers to be impatient and thus, give up looking through your webpage. This will influence your design as the readers will get impatient waiting and leaving them a bad impression of your web design.
read about webdesign process article and write what you think about it.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/web-design-and-worflow-process-comparison/
After reading the web design process article, I learned more about what makes a good webpage. I also get to know that having an organised plan before starting to do your web design is an very important thing. This will help you to have a better understanding of what you are going to do, thus saving more time.
By listing out the breakdown of the ideal webdesign process allow us to consider the reader’s wants and needs. This will greatly attract the reader’s attention and influence more readers to visit ur webpage.
With this guidelines, I think that as we develop our concepts and go accordingly to the process, we will be able to create a professional webpage design with the knowledge of what exactly the readers are going for.
