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	10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

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2-11-2008 9:34 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79a8d5b8-882d-4309-96ac-89261c4ef248/08F206BD-1A9C-4B17-B818-4DFD1CB9EF35/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/" href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smashingmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/"><H1 class="title"><A title="10 Principles Of Effective Web Design" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/">10 Principles Of Effective Web Design</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/"><P><STRONG>Usability</STRONG> and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/"><P>We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the <STRONG>main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design</STRONG> — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">you might be interested in the usability-related articles about <A href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/09/27/10-usability-nightmares-you-should-be-aware-of/">10 Usability Nightmares</A> and <A href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/09/30-usability-issues-to-be-aware-of/">30 Usability Issues</A> we’ve published before,</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08F206BD-1A9C-4B17-B818-4DFD1CB9EF35/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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