Designing Heavy Content Web Sites: Issues and more
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As in any media, criteria for quality vary with the genre
and authors' goals. A dizzying diversity of websites are emerging from
the creative efforts of bold designers who merge old forms to create new
information resources, communication media, business services, and entertainment
experiences. Websites can range from a one-page personal biography
(Figure 1)
to millions of pages in the Library of Congress's American Memory
project organized by the National Digital Library program (Figure 2).
Figure 1: One page personal biography of Ara Kotchian, a student at
the University of Maryland (used with permission). [http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/People/ara/index.html]
Figure 2: American Memory home page from the Library of Congress,
offering more than 5 000 000 images, texts, videos, etc., by the year
2000. [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem]
Goals:
- visual appeal
- comprehensibility
- utility
- efficacy
- navigability
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