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Web Design Workshop 13 User Statistics
Semiomantics XO provides a few configured layouts which allow to quickly change the look and feel of the site. Your choice will depend on the purpose of the site as well as on your web design priorities. This workshop is about the layout and the variables built in to Semiomantics XO.
There are 3 main choices to be made: Site width, Sidebars and Front-page grid.
User Statistics
In order to choose the format of our site, it is important to know how our target audience looks at our site. Browser statistics will help.
Most Used Browsers
Most users are on Internet Explorer and Firefox:
Browser Statistics Source w3schools
Most used Operating Systems
Windows remains the reference:
- Operating System Statistics w3schools
Browser Display
Most users display 1024 and more.
Display
Color Depth
Most users use 24 bit or 32 bit color display.
Color Depth
Conclusions
Most users are equipped for 1024 pixel wide web sites and can see high quality graphics. We can thus produce website with a width of 1024 pixels and we have to be aware that the quality of graphics makes a huge difference.
We need to consider Windows and Firefox standards and default settings and test our sites permanently to make sure visitors see our site the way we want. Browser default settings can be overwritten by editing your style-sheet.
With the evolution of monitors, operating systems and other equipments, the tools for web designers have evolved as well. Also some popular tools such as Web Graphics Creator make it easy for anyone to create quality graphics.
Digital cameras allow anyone to shoot good pictures which can easily be associated with written content to make posts more attractive.
In other words: to make the difference, we need to take care of details and we need to build more technical knowledge. Or, we need to outsource to meet customer expectations.
The present Basic Web Design Workshop shows, how we can get in control of our website and it’s behavior on one hand, on the other it also shows, what actually is needed to build a meaningful and efficient website.
Web Design is not mastered in just a few hours. It’s technical, it’s creative, it’s a profession.
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| Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
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