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Making websites work
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Have you ever wondered ...
Who designs the websites you visit every day--sites like
Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail or ICAF.org? Who came up with
the ideas that make these sites fun to visit and useful
to you, your friends and your family? Well, you might be
surprised to learn that these sites are actually the
work of not just a single artist, but hundreds of people
working together to create pages and pages of content,
tools and applications that make the sites worth
visiting.
Though the best web pages often look pretty simple,
making a good website is actually quite hard; but that's
not because you have to know a lot about technology to
make them. The programming languages and graphic tools
people use to create websites, like HTML, Dreamweaver
and Adobe Photoshop, are actually pretty easy to learn.
What makes Web sites hard to make is that you have to
know a lot about people!
Sometimes making works of art is just about having fun,
or about expressing yourself. Many people make personal
Web pages for that very reason. But most of the bigger
websites are created in order to help other people do
stuff, like write e-mails to their friends, read
articles about different subjects, find answers to their
questions, buy gifts for people or have fun playing
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So when people set out to design these sites, they have
to think hard about what the people who visit their
website are going to do, and try to make it as easy as
possible for them to do it. And because popular websites
can have millions of people visiting them every single
day, each trying to do slightly different things, that's
a lot of thinking you have to do!
But it doesn't just take a big team of people to make
good websites. It takes different kinds of people, too.
Some people focus on what sorts of things the websites
should do and how they should work. These people are
often called interaction designers or information
architects. They decide, for example, whether it is
better to have a list of links for you to click on or a
single button that you push.
Other people on the team focus on other aspects of the
website, which make the site either hard or easy to use.
Visual designers concentrate on figuring out how things
should be laid out on the page and what colors, fonts
and images to use so that your eye moves easily over the
page and you notice the most important things first.
Some teams have dedicated usability specialists, too.
Their job is to watch real people using websites to
figure out where they get confused, what words they
don't understand and situations when they can't find
what they are looking for. And then they use what they
learn to help the interaction designers and visual
designers fix what doesn't work.
If all of that sounds like hard work, it is! Even with
all of those people working on them, many websites still
aren't easy to figure out or don't do what you want them
to. But the challenge is also what makes it so fun. When
you do create a site that people enjoy using, it is very
satisfying. And if more talented people like you use
your creativity to come up with new ideas, no doubt the
World Wide Web will be more enjoyable, easier to use and
a lot more fun! |
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