Becoming a website builder involves either learning to make a website on your own or using a program to build it for you from start to finish. The latter option is the cheapest one (in terms of money and time) but whichever option you might choose you should never lose sight of what makes a
website good enough to make people want to come back.
In fact one of the most important parts of designing and building a web page is just how accessible it is to your market. You have to think who and where the site is aimed at. For example, if you are building a site for accessibility scooters, the chances are that an older generation, with less I.T and Internet knowledge, is going to attempt to access your web site. In this case you have to think about a number of important factors:
- is the text large enough for them to read?
- Does the site have a simple navigation structure?
- How difficult is it to find the actual project
- Do your descriptions give valid information regarding the content?
The other accessibility problem faced by some web pages is that fact that blind people also use the Internet. Special screen readers can be added to computers that will read out all the information on a screen. Windows has it's own utility built in. This means that images won't matter, although if you do have images on your web page you should consider adding an "alt" tag, which is a description of the image that screen readers are programmed to read out. You need to plan your site as though you were describing every part in great detail, yet without having too much text.
Liquid DesignThere are two types of web site, the fixed and the liquid layout. The fixed layout sets a specific width of it's structure in pixels such that it can never change, even if the user changes the window size of their browser. The site will remain exactly the same
dimensions, so when using a fixed width it is advisable to use a width of no more than 780 pixels as this will accommodate the smallest PC screens.
A liquid layout is a one that will adapt itself to the screen height and width as the user changes it. Elements on the site are able to stretch and contract depending on the window size so that you are always able to see the whole site no matter what screen resolution or window size you are using.
The goal of liquid design is providing similar experience to people and eliminate possible irritating design flaws such as too much white space, disappearance of certain sectors of information due to lack of space etc.