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Article 1: Don’t Bore Your Visitors

Look & Feel- Too many elements

working at the same time. (Use of different images and colors)

- The colors that are used are bright and shouting colors.

- May distract from the main focus of the website.

Function & Usability- Too many irrelevant

content about page thus visitors would get bored easily.

- Has too many varying fonts which can be another distractive aspects.

- May look cluttered and messy.

In comparison to The Daily Eggs’ page, Frostcollective’s page seem more neat and organized with the use of proper fonts.

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ARTICLE 2: DON’T MAKE THEM WAIT Internet

Connections- Ease of access into

a website may attract visitors.

- Simplicity of a site’s navigation.

- Speed of download.

Negative Space/White Space

- Clever use of negative space.

- Avoid cluttering page with too much use of negative space.

Adobe Photoshop Using Photoshop may benefit designers in terms

of the design itself.

However, incompatibility of the Photoshop file and where the file is going to be in the browser may occur due to different functions.

Adobe Photoshop is quite pricey as it is a proprietary software which consists of many features.

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Article 3 : Find Out What Colors Will Cause Your Visitors to Hate You

Critics on the color of the website and its contents.

Color is one of the essential keys to great web plan. Shades ought to be picked sensibly as it influences the state of mind of the viewers. It ought to be picked in such a way to suit the subject of the site (Geetha,2004).

- The primary colors chosen should be reasonable to the intent of the site.

Cont’.

- Colors may also aid web visitors to easily find what they are looking for.

- With the right color and the right topic, visitors will be attracted to use the site.

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Articles 4 – Navigation Hyperlinks- Hyperlink is the main idea or concept that permits the web

to work.

- Unites one site page to either an alternate report (file or webpage), or an alternate piece of the same document.

- Set content by using color or italic variant of the body copy typeface.

Cont’.

Visited Links- Browsers stay informed regarding Web use by saving analyzing data.

- This stored "history" is the medium that empowers users to use the History menu to backtrack to pages they visited days ago, or to use back button to follow their latest steps.

- The history also permits the browser to analyze links on a page that already been visited.

- At the point when navigating a body of data as gigantic as the Web, it gets to be greatly essential to perceive the pages that have been visited.

Cont’. Unvisited Links

- At the point when visited and unvisited links are not differentiated, the best way to figure out if a page has been visited may be to visit repeatedly.

- The standard browser default is to shade unvisited links blue and visited links purple.

- This combination is the most inclusive and generally recognizable, even with some variety in saturation and brightness, may be in blue and violet.

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