Andrew McDonough
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Web Design
Scope
This document covers design principles and not technologies. For technologes please visit the following links:
Speed
Affordances
In design, an affordance is a visual clue to the function of an object.
Accessiblity
Bobby is a free portal which can validate the accessiblity of a site: http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
There are serveral sets of guidelines:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- U.S. Section 508 Guidelines
Links
http://www.webstyleguide.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2005/04/08/doctype-declaration-and-content-type-headers
Andrew McDonough is a consultant CTO and software developer, currently based between Berlin and London.
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