1. What is Browser-Safe Color Palette / Web-Safe Colors?
The Brower-Safe Palette or the web safe colors are colors that can be view from different moniters and does not dithers. It is also The 216 colors that do not shift between various platforms’ operating systems or most Web browsers. The Browser-Safe Palette only contains 216 colors out of a possible 256 and it served as a standard of all web. The rest of the 40 colors isnt used because it may varies. Thus the web safe colors or the 216 colors is used to optimized for cross platform users.
2. Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?
Not really. In the past, web safe colors or the browser safe colors were being used is due to moniters which only could render 8bit colors display to make sure that the colors won’t dithers. However, at higher bit depths, the fixity of the color palette goes out the window. Now, we have the true colors, moniters can display millions of colors – the 32bit ( only render 24 bit colors ). It can render more colors and quicker. 24-bit depth, it can display 16,777,216 colors, which is convenient since it’s also the numbers of all possible colors. Therefore, the using the safe colors wasn’t really important anymore but it might still be use to design online pubilishing gadgets like handphones and PDA.
3. What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?
Arial, Helvetica, Comic San, Georgia, Sans serif, Serif, Courier new, Impact, Lucida Console, Tahoma, Geneva, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Webdings. They are often called as web safe fonts too.
4. What is page loading time and how it influence your design?
It is the the amount of time it takes to load the page including all objects. A high-quality landing page should have a fast load time as well as feature unique, relevant content. Faster pages make a better user experience, when the load page is slower, user may get fustrated or change to another website which have faster loading time and contain the same information. This might decreased the popularity of the website. In worst cases, it might be a killer to the website even though the design is awesome because users might not even want to spend the amount of time to just wait for the website to load.
5. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/web-design-and-worflow-process-comparison/
Read about Web Design Process article above and write what you think about it (at least 150 words)
Wow, i never thought that designing a web needs so much of process. It’s very useful to learn some trick and tips of designing process from him. In fact, some of the tips my tutors were using it and they had taught us before. I liked the way he planned before hand, this helps to prevent getting lost off or off the track. It’s very systemactic. He was right about all those process. Behind every design, there are bound to be lots of hard work. I might be facing difficulties in the mids of making the web therefore the way I tackle the problem is a key too. So before starting on the project, we need to set the guidelines for ourseleves and plan thoroughly on what to do. Examples the timeline, the concept, the layout, the typography and many more. This helps to minimse the problems. It is also important for me to know and be clear of what i want to do and what i need to do. That helps to achieve the goals and target set and they are much more easy to see the steps to get there.
Anyway, it’s not just about the design, but a design which works and have what the site visitor wants and suit the users needs. Every details needs to be planned well. Afterall, i think most of his post is talking about the same thing over again. It’s stressing the importance of of planning, getting clear of what i want and the step by step process we need to do. Finally yes, they are very useful tips and i will bear that in mind.
Great article, appreciate it for sharing!
