Welp, guess I read another article concerning UX design first, but now, to comment on the Smashing article that covered usability guidlines, I got a little refresher on what to keep in mind when designing my webpage, especially to make sure I design my page to be useful or easy to use. The tips that stand out the most to me are scrolling, where the audience eyes are drawn, white space, and blue hpyerlinks. All key aspects of a webpage the the user looks for right away..color. The article concerning UX design, that I'm not sure if I was supposed to read...completely hit home, especially for the time being. In another class of mine, which happens to be a usability course, we are currently working with CS majors on a "collaboration" project- and this article seems to be discussing the very tips my group needs on communication and meeting and opening up ourselves to genre's of thinking we aren't familiar with. The idea of meeting and discussing things is so key, and the process of intertwining the thoughts of designers and programmers is no easy one, so this article, although it may not seem directly applicable to web design, truly is- especially when we get out into the big bad real world.
Then there came the articles that are the prefaces to our web design journey. Doctype, html, xhtml, and html5....three terms we are all about to become very familiar with. Doctype basically, is the string of letters and symbols at the top of the coding that declares and defines what kind of html is going to be used for the design/document. There can be different types though, but usually it's, <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">.
Next up, there were two articles covering different types of html, xhtml and html5. Xhtml is the combination of well-formed html and xml- because certain devices have a hard time interpreting bad marked code, Xhtml, is used to allow smaller types of devices to easily read coded documents because it is so picky and clean. Html5, well, the article basically gave up what the other called a "boilerplate" for html, and it was basically the skeletal structure of what the coding should look like for html5, overall these articles were a great little preface/intro to what we are actually going to be working with on our webpages.
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