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Historical Phases of Website Design

1. Just a website

2. Either interesting or
easy to use. Rarely both.

3. Websites that deliver
real value, positive
customer experience, high
marks on brand value,
content, ease-of-use,
performance, and
trustworthiness.

4. AJAX, Mobile Web,
Social Networking


Web Process Diagram

 

XHTML is the newest version of HTML. We refer to XHTML and HTML interchangeably.
The history of HTML at W3C starts with HTML 3.2, code named Wilbur, which was followed a few years later by HTML 4.0, then HTML 4.01. HTML 4.01 is the last version of HTML, and is also the final W3C specification to define the semantics of markup.
XHTML 1.1 has slighly improved the semantics of HTML 4.01

The most fruitful design strategy

1. Support short visits; be
a snack

2. Encourage users to
return; use mechanisms
such as newsletters as a
reminder

3. Emphasize search engine
visibility and other ways of increasing frequent visits by addressing users’ immediate needs

HTML

An acronym for
HyperText Markup
Language. HTML codes
are interpreted by the web
browser to format documents
in a particular way.

Browser

Browsers are
software programs that
allow a user to view
images and read
hypertext documents (i.e.
Web pages). For example
Mozilla Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari, and
Chrome are browsers.

CSS

Cascading Style
Sheets are declarations
that describe how a
document should be presented
on the Web with
styling and formatting
information.

Job in the World Wide WebWebsite Design

The regular enhancement in mobile phones has increased their usability and ultimately their demand. Now they are no longer considered as the medium solely used for communication purpose. People dance, people see, people play and purchase too on phones. Its increasing penetration into day-to-day life of human beings has increased its importance. It is a “need” for many and “want” for few but very soon it will become a need for all.

Seeing its increasing connectivity with people, mobile phones are now used as an important marketing tool by many marketers. You can receive emails, compose new and send them, though it is not very common but the change has begun. The time is not very far when we will see people browsing whole websites in the phone only.

People have even started designing and developing websites for mobile phones. The very contemporary example which we all can notice and might have used is the use of social networking sites such as Twitter on mobile.

There are many intricacies such as web site resolution, screen size, lack of JavaScript support and many others which need to be resolved explicitly to increase the typical users’ experience. Web designers and developers are likely to overcome most of the obstacles in the next few years.

Hard to believe, but corporate Web sites have been around for over 10 years now. It’s fascinating to see how they have evolved over the years, from the early days of magazine-style brochureware to the most recent trends of two-way Web interfaces. Corporate Web sites tend to re-invent themselves every one or two years and one reason is because Web design is constantly changing and adapting to technology in an evolutionary manner. Web design is a product of HTML, Browsers, Content Management Systems and the speed of computer processors. Web design is always pushing the boundaries of what current technology allows.