| ays a webpage is a standard communication tool of | | | | in print media whereas the web has almost unlimited |
| almost each company. You can have endless | | | | space for publishing articles and informations with |
| discusssions about the design of a webpage, but in | | | | additional or corresponding features like graphs or |
| times of an increasing web-usage there are certain | | | | photo-galleries. The content should be clearly |
| things you should keep in mind if you´re going | | | | arranged with appropriate paragraphs including |
| to start a new page. | | | | meaningful headlines and sub-headlines, enumerations |
| We will give you some hints for a user-friendly and | | | | and accentuations. |
| modern web design. | | | | 4. Templates: The table-based designs of the past will |
| 1. Search function: The acceptance of a web page | | | | be replaces by layer-based CSS and XHTML |
| depends on the usability of the web site. Apart from | | | | Templates. With this technology it becomes possible |
| the clarity and an intuitive navigation the web page - | | | | to place contents and design elements freely on a |
| in particular pages with a lot of content - should have | | | | web page. Character sizes become thereby scalable - |
| an efficient search function. In the past many of the | | | | a basic condition for barrier-free web design. Later |
| webmasters paid no attention to this feature. Modern | | | | changes at the layout or complete revisions can be |
| content management systems offer such functions | | | | carried out more simply, since contents remain equal. |
| as a standard feature. | | | | Beyond that, such CSS layouts offer still further |
| 2. PDF-Files: The PDF is a well established document | | | | advantages. Especially search-engines love the slim |
| format in the web. Unfortunately enterprises often | | | | source-code of a CSS based web page. |
| miss to integrate this PDFs into an appropriate | | | | 5. Design: Consistency is one of the most important |
| content page. Almost everybody knows the effect. | | | | usability principles. Fundamental segmentations, |
| Using a search-engine, people only get the web page | | | | functions and navigation elements should appear on all |
| of a company over a PDF-File, shown in the result | | | | web pages. The whole web page will be easy to use. |
| page. PDF-Files represent a very good | | | | Same applies to fundamental site allocations. |
| supplementation of existing contents, but they should | | | | Navigation und site-architecture should be orientated |
| not replace these contents completely. | | | | at classic-examples. Freaky design ideas should be |
| 3. Search-engine-friendly content: Particularly in the | | | | banned. A navigation bar at the right or lower edge |
| past some people tried to use print-content for web | | | | of the screen can become a design high light, a |
| usage. Bear in mind that the internet is a completely | | | | first-time user of that page could have significant |
| different media. Normally there is a very limited space | | | | problems however. |