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Screen Design to Future-Proof your Web Site
Screen design should...
- Focus visitor attention on important information
- Attract and maintain your interest
- Map new information to information that visitors already know
- Help visitors find information
- Help visitors to navigate through the site
- Screen design should include
- Screen Grid and Layout (Prevent horizontal scrolling)
- Line Length (Don't make visitors move their eyes sideways)
- Screen Density (Add white space)
- Font Selection & Leading (Make fonts readable and put spaces between letters)
- Menus (Use CSS to style the menus. Avoid Javascript)
- Buttons (If a rollover design is to be used, make this a single graphic)
- Icons (Use if you can apply these consistently across the entire site. If you don't have control of the entire site, don't use them)
- Color: Make sure that
- Colors are compatible
- Color contrasts guide the visitor's eyes
- The number of colors used is limited
Here are links to more site design information on this site.