(Unit 44 Website Design) Activity 2 - Research Website Design issues

Aesthetic Qualities

Aesthetic mainly looks at the natural beauty of the creation along with the critical reflection of art involved in it. The link between Aesthetics and website design are simple and look at:

• The natural feel and flow of a website
• Reflections of art intergrated into the website
• The main visual characteristics of a website

All websites should have a some form of Aesthetic qualities such as:

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/

 As you can see from the image above, this website contains a great deal of art work that have been used as background images. These images give a nice look and feel to the website, this website is a great example of Aesthetic qualities as it gives you a strong reflection of art which is presented quite strongly which allows the art to stand out to the viewer.

 Some websites Don't actually have any Aesthetic Qualities Such as:

http://www.google.co.uk/

The difference between this image and the previous image is that this webiste uses Aesthetic Qualities in various ways, where as the previous website is fixed to look like that which can get rather boring after a while. This website is very plain with a simple heading but the great thing about this website is that they continuously change the heading keeping the text the same but they use various pieces of art work. Some of the artwork that they use is interactive which makes this website a great example of Aesthetic Qualities.

Web Standards

Web standards are basically the general standards which include technical information, these standards are what define and desribe the World Wide Web.
For a website to comply with Web standards they must be valid with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

When web standards are discussed, some of the following publicationsmust be used:

• Markup languages, such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and XForms, from W3C
• Stylesheets, especially Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), from W3C
• Standards for ECMAScript, more commonly JavaScript, from Ecma International.
• Document Object Models (DOM), from W3C
• Properly formed names and addresses for the page and all other resources referenced from it (URIs), based upon RFC 2396, from IETF
• Proper use of HTTP and MIME to deliver the page, return data from it and to request other resources referenced in it, based on RFC 2616, from IETF

Fluid And Fixed

The difference between a Fluid website and a Fixed website is that a Fluid website is a wbsite that caters for all forms of internet browsing which include android devices and I-phones along with the standard computer browsing, a fluid website also changes when you adjust the size of the page. A fixed website is a website that stays exactly the same when adjusted and does not cater for alternate devices, a great example of a Fluid webpage would be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia is a great example of a fluid webpage as all the text that appears on the screen adjusts to the size that you adjust the page to, and all the text is still readable. Wikipedia can also be used on any Android and I-Phone device aswel.


A good example of a fixed webpage would be:


http://www.youtube.com/

 YouTube is a good and unusual example of a fixed webpage because you can access YouTube on Android and I-Phone devies but they are run from a seperate server so they are fixed for those devies along with the main computer browsing view which is also fixed because as you adjust the page size the text and images stay the same which makes the page fixed.