Contents

Home page
Page layout
Text
Web safe colours
User defined layouts
Conclusion

Documents

Presentation
Microsoft PowerPoint XP file
seminar2003.ppt

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University of Greenwich

Website and presentation by James Barker, 3rd December 2003.

Should websites be designed in such a way as to allow the user to decide how they are rendered or should web designers attempt to exert the same control over their designs that print designers have?

Screenshots of bbc.co.uk - a fixed-width design - at different screen resolutions

Introduction

This question prompts debate about the various methods of page layout designers have at their disposal. This site is the product of my internet-based research and is broken down into five sections:

 

Page layout
Screen resolutions, Fixed or fluid layout?, Windows Resize Handles, Web browsers

Text
em, pxt, pt?, Font type, Accessibility, Brand adherence

Web safe colours

User defined layouts
User-selected CSS, Portals

Conclusion

 

Websites that I have found useful during my research are listed on the right hand side of each page.

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