1.The browser-safe color palette is the palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers.
2.No. Few computer users view the web in 256 colors presently.
3.Comic Sans Ms, Arial, Arial Black, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Tahoma, Geneva, Times New Roman, Times, Trebuchet MS, Helvatica, Verdana, Symbol, Webdings, Wingdings, Zephf Dingbats, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, New York, Charcoal, Gadget.
4.Page loading time is the amount of time it takes for a user to view your page.
4.1. If the time taken to load a page is too long, you will lose your users attention. That means that a page shouldn’t be more than 30 kilobytes total including text, graphics, html, javascript, etc. Too much graphics will slow the loading page time. Thus, images should be kept as minimal as possible.
5. From the article, i understand that what is needed in the web design process is careful planning, constant tests to see if the web is fully functional and also being able to fulfill user’s needs.
By having careful planning, I will be able to minimize the time taken to complete the web and also the errors that might occur because it is not able to fulfill user’s needs.
Constantly performing tests will ensure that it is functional and will not cause problems for the users.
From the article, one of the process is to do a site marketing. I find that this is also important as it is to attract users to use my web page. With good site marketing, more users will know of the web page.
However, if the the web page does not have good planning.. then it’s of minimal use.
Even in web design, sketches of the final product is also important because it will help when in the process of planning usability and getting the style and personality of the web page.
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