The Web Project

These tutorials are about general Web design theory.

This tutorial has five (5) sub-sections.

Site Design

Web design begins with site design (but it doesn't end there). What makes a Web site work is the design of the entire site as a coherent entity, not of the individual pages in isolation. In other words, site design starts at the beginning of the Web development project.

No matter how good pages may look, poor site design can still make those pages difficult to use, difficult to maintain, and expensive to operate in the long run. A well-designed site integrates coherent and integrated page designs into an overall structure that makes sense and provides order to the pages.

Organizing Web pages is similar to organizing book pages, but far more complex. To organize book pages, one needs only develop a coherent sequence for the content and a uniform look and feel. Most Web sites are not sequential. The relationships between Web pages in a site are much more complex than relationships between pages in a book.

Here we will look at site design within the context of a simple business model or project development. This set of tutorials walks you through the sequence of developing a Web project.

These pages can be found at: [http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/]
Copyright 2003 -- Peter L. Kantor[kantopet@hvcc.edu]
Last Updated August 2003