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Lowell, Nathan; Roberts, Stephanie – TechTrends, 2001
Provides design options for making Web sites more accessible to blind or visually impaired users. Highlights include valid alt-tags on graphics; helpful link text; cascading style sheets (CSSs) to separate content from page structure; descriptive links to tell what a significant graphic is about; and not using text only as a valid alternative.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Blindness, Computer Graphics, Design Requirements
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Descy, Don E. – TechTrends, 1997
Discussion of Web page design covers balancing text and graphics; pixels; graphic file formats; dithering; and caching. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Design Requirements, Electronic Text, Information Storage
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Descy, Don E. – TechTrends, 1997
Discusses fonts as well as design considerations that should be reviewed when designing World Wide Web pages and sites to make them easier for clients to use and easier to maintain. Also discusses the simplicity of names; organization of pages, folders, and files; and sites to help build Web sites. (LRW)
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Information Management, Information Retrieval, Screen Design (Computers)
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Hinn, D. Michelle – TechTrends, 1999
Presents tips on how to create instructional Web sites with accessibility in mind and how to easily check existing sites for accessibility, based on a study of inaccessible Web-based components at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Provides a list of Web sites focusing on accessibility. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Design Preferences, Design Requirements
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Hill, Janette R.; And Others – TechTrends, 1997
Explores issues associated with developing Web sites for large organizations based on experiences at AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology). Topics include examining the audience, establishing guidelines, design issues, user expectations, Web site load time, legibility, navigation issues, and recommendations for future…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Cooperative Planning, Design Requirements, Futures (of Society)
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Descy, Don E. – TechTrends, 1997
Discusses rules for Web page design: consider audiences' Internet skills and equipment; know your content; outline the material; map or sketch the site; be consistent; regulate size of graphics to control download time; place eye catching material in the first 300 pixels; moderate use of color to control file size and bandwidth; include a…
Descriptors: Attention, Audience Analysis, Color, Computer Graphics
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Sugrue, Brenda; Kobus, Robert C. – TechTrends, 1997
Describes a prototype for a World Wide Web site that supports as many student and instructor needs as possible and was developed for a graduate course on instructional design. Topics include roles of the instructor and of the webmaster, student perspectives, technical design issues, user interface, and graphics. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Design Requirements, Educational Resources