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User Interface
‘Webmaster’s 12-Step Group’ is a series designed to help new web authors make the transition to web publishing by translating common information management skills to the unique forum of the world wide web.
1)Consider the purpose for user interface.2)Make a list of web sites that made it difficult to locate information;
include areason why.
3)Make a list of web sites that you frequent weekly.
What are they doing right? 
4)
 
From your list of favorable web sites, what methods do they use to draw yourattention to new information?
Graphics?Location of ‘primary draw’ information on the page?Fonts? (bold, light, italics, serif/san-serif, large/small)Colors? (bold, subtle, consistent, coordinated,
5)From your list of more difficult web sites, what features seemed more like a barrierthan an aid?
Complex or simple? (frames, scrollbars, pop-ups, pull-down menusAmount of information? (lots of text in tiny font, information presentedimmediately or kept behind a link to another page,Navigation to “last weeks’s news”? (older information can still be located, age of information is clearly presented, easy to tell difference between old and new)
6)
 
From your list of favorite web sites, what differences do you see from the abovelist?7)
 
Some fonts look better on the screen; some better on paper.
Some are optimized to be readable on both paper an on the screen.
 An example isVerdana.
There are limits to how small fonts can be before they are unreadable; serif fonts(which are designed for print, not the screen) should be no smaller than 12 point.
8)
 
Color pairs can be pleasing or optically disturbing; understand the effect they havefirst, then use what serves your purpose.
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