Website Design Guideline

Definition

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a guideline that provide guidance concerning how to design a website

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Website Design Guideline is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Abstract
• Superclass: Design Guideline
• Subclasses:
  • Accessibility
  • Behavior
  • Color
  • Content
  • Images
  • Look and Feel
  • Navigation
  • Sound
  • Storage
  • Text

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a Website Design Guideline are to:

• Guide the work of those who design websites.
• Document industry best practices.

Sources

These guidelines have been derived from much experience and from many sources including the following books and websites:

• Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design by Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis, Sybex Incorporated, Alameda, California, 1998, pp. 266, ISBN: 0-7821-2187-X.
• Creating Killer Interactive Web Sites: The Art of integrating interactivity and design by Andrew Sather, Ardith Ibanez, Bernie DeChant, and Pascal, Hayden Books, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1996, pp. 210, ISBN: 1-56830-373-4.
• Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1999, pp. 164, ISBN: 0-300-07675-4.
• The Complete Reference for Web Design by Thomas Powell, Osborne McGraw Hill, Berkeley, California, 2000, pp. 872, ISBN: 0-07-212297-8.
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web (W3) Organization.
• Composing Good HTML by Eric Tilton.
• What is Good Hypertext Writing? by Jutta Degener.
• Yahoo’s collection of Beginner HTML Guidelines and Tutorials

Guidelines

• Select only the relevant subclasses of website design guidelines.