History:
The internet was created in 1991 by the company CERN
Tim Burner-Lee was the scientist that came up with the idea
At the start all web pages were text based
The first web server was created by Steve Jobs under the company 'NeXT
By 1992 the first image was displayed on the web.
Terminology
HTTP - hyper text transfer protocol
URL - uniform resource locator
HTML - hyper text markup language
CSS - cascading style sheets
FTP - file transfer protocol
CMS - content management system
SKEUOMORPHISM - imitates something physical
RESPONSIVE - can adapt to a variety of media e.g. smartphone
When designing for screen you should ask yourself:
- Whats the point?
- What is the purpose of the website?
- Who are the target audience?
- What do the target audience need?
Useful websites:
- Awwwards
- Web design ledger
- Five simple steps
- Aisle one
- Piccsy.com/everything-design
- Indexibit.com
Simon showed us a range of websites and we had to say the first things that came to mind:
Thin, boring, dated
Nauseating, cluttered, busy, confusing
clean, Purpose?, simple
tacky, movement, purple, hard to read
painful, cluttered, confusing, rank
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