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Summary
Summary
Balanced Website Design (BWD) is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, with keeping a sharp focus (throughout a project) on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics - which are absolutely essential requirements of any website. The book includes discussions on new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, in the special context of website design.
BWD is suitable for all types of websites, for individual and/or team projects, and useful even for the most experienced of website designers. BWD provides guidance, structure and detailed documentation/process support for the activity of designing and implementing your next website - to help you maximise effectiveness and appropriateness.
This book addresses very practical needs in the extremely complicated area of website design and presents a down-to-earth, strongly structured approach to designing a web-site or teaching web-site design.
Author Notes
Both authors based at Middlesex University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Section 1 Grounding | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 Balanced Website Design (BWD): The Context Explained | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 The World of Website Design | p. 21 |
| Chapter 3 Website Usability | p. 37 |
| Chapter 4 Aesthetics and Websites | p. 59 |
| Section 2 Methodology Process | p. 81 |
| Chapter 5 Requirements - Initial Acquisition | p. 83 |
| 5.1 Step 1: Project Startup | p. 85 |
| 5.2 Step 2: Time and Task Analysis | p. 92 |
| 5.3 Step 3: Initial Requirements Gathering | p. 97 |
| Chapter 6 Design Needs - Building the Picture | p. 105 |
| 6.1 Step 4: Purpose Aspirations Recognition | p. 106 |
| 6.2 Step 5: Usability and Aesthetic Requirements Recognition | p. 113 |
| 6.3 Step 6: Review and Reflect (1) | p. 135 |
| Chapter 7 Designing the Solution | p. 141 |
| 7.1 Step 7: Technical Options/Selections | p. 142 |
| 7.2 Step 8: Navigation Design, Screen Layouts, Webpage Dialogues, Purpose Mapping, and Content Index | p. 150 |
| 7.3 Step 9: Review and Reflect (2) | p. 173 |
| Chapter 8 Creating the Website | p. 177 |
| 8.1 Step 10: Coding and Building | p. 178 |
| 8.2 Step 11: Website Testing and Evaluation | p. 190 |
| 8.3 Step 12: User Evaluation/Review and Reflect (3) | p. 196 |
| Section 3 Implementation Issues | p. 201 |
| Chapter 9 Software Tools | p. 203 |
| Chapter 10 Website Hosting and Website Management | p. 221 |
| Index | p. 233 |
