ICT

• PURPOSE - Good web design always caters to the needs of the user. Are your web visitors looking for information, entertainment, some type of interaction, or to transact with your business? Each page of your website needs to have a clear purpose, and to fulfill a specific need for your website users in the most effective way possible.
• COMMUNICATION - People on the web tend to want information quickly, so it is important to communicate clearly, and make your information easy to read and digest. Some effective tactics to include in your web design include: organizing information using headlines and sub headlines, using bullet points instead of long windy sentences, and cutting the waffle.
• TYPEFACES - In general, Sans Serif fonts such as Arial and Verdana are easier to read online (Sans Serif fonts are contemporary looking fonts without decorative finishes). The ideal font size for reading easily online is 16px and stick to a maximum of 3 typefaces in a maximum of 3 point sizes to keep your design streamlined.
• COLORS - A well thought out colour palette can go a long way to enhance the user experience. Complementary colours create balance and harmony. Using contrasting colours for the text and background will make reading easier on the eye. Vibrant colours create emotion and should be used sparingly (e.g. for buttons and call to actions). Last but not least, white space/ negative space is very effective at giving your website a modern and uncluttered look.
• IMAGES - A picture can speak a thousand words, and choosing the right images for your website can help with brand positioning and connecting with your target audience. If you don’t have high quality professional photos on hand, consider purchasing stock photos to lift the look of your website. Also consider using infographics, videos and graphics as these can be much more effective at communicating than even the most well written piece of text.
• NAVIGATION - is about how easy it is for people to take action and move around your website. Some tactics for effective navigation include a logical page hierarchy, using bread crumbs, designing clickable buttons, and following the three click rule' which means users will be able to find the Information they are looking for within three clicks.
• GRID BASED LAYOUTS - Placing content randomly on your web page can end up with a haphazard appearance that is messy. Grid based layouts arrange content into sections, columns and boxes that line up and feel balanced, which leads to a better looking website design.
• “F” PATTERN DESIGN - Eye tracking studies have identified that people scan computer screens in an "F" pattern. Most of what people see is in the top and left of the screen and the right side of the screen is rarely seen. Rather than trying to force the viewer's visual flow, effectively designed websites will work with a reader's natural behavior and display information in order of importance (left to right, and top to bottom).
• LOAD TIME - Everybody hates a website that takes ages to load. Tips to make page load times more effective include optimizing image sizes (size and scale), combining code into a central CSS or JavaScript file
• MOBILE FRIENDLY - It is now commonplace to access websites from multiple devices with multiple screen sizes, so it is important to consider if your website is mobile friendly. If your website is not mobile friendly, you can either rebuild it in a responsive layout (this means your website will adjust to different screen widths) or you can build a dedicated mobile site (a separate website optimized specifically for mobile users)
• Conventional designs - conservative design still works well as far as visitor response or likeability is concerned.
• TEST EARLY AND TEST OFTEN - TETO
• TEST EARLY AND TEST OFTEN - is another web design principle that all designers and website owners must consider. Conducting usability test every now and then provides important results and insights into many kinds of problem and complications related to a website layout or aspects of design.
• WEB TEMPLATE - is a ready-made design for your website, including images, some navigation, preferably several sample pages and in some cases flash animation.
• ONLINE TECHNOLOGY - also include presentation programs, forms, and file management that are available over the internet.
• CLOUD COMPUTING - is a term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet.
• 3 main benefits of Cloud computing

  • self-service provisioning
  • elasticity
  • pay-per-use
• self-service provisioning - end users can spin up computing resources for almost any type of workload on-demand.
• elasticity - companies can scale up as computing needs increase and then scale down again as demands decrease.
• pay-per-use - computing resources are measured at a granular level, allowing users to pay only for the resources.
• PREZI - it is a presentation resource that features zoomable canvas unlike the box-type slides.
• EMAZE - works similarly with Prezi, you can choose from their free presentation templates to easily create.
• Mind Map - is a concept of using diagrams for representing tasks, words, concepts, or items linked to and arranged around a central concept or subject.
• MINDMEISTER - is an online mind mapping tool that allows users to create, develop, and share ideas visually.
• SIBELIUS - is an online platform used for writing music.
• GOOGLE FORMS - is a tool used for creating surveys, tests, or web input forms.
• CLOUD ARCHITECT - is a computer professional who is responsible for managing a company's cloud computing strategy.
• ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES

  • CLOUD COMPUTING
  • PREZI
  • EMAZE
• According to Cleverism, "Web design is a concept of planning, creating, and maintaining websites".
• According to Cleverism, "Web design is a concept of planning, creating, and maintaining websites".
• Visual Hierarchy - This explains the order in which human eye perceives what it sees. This is a technique wherein, as a developer, you have to distinguish the importance of every part of your web page.
• Proportion - You can make use of the golden ratio, a magical number approximately equal to 1.618 that makes all things proportioned so as to make design aesthetically pleasing.
• Hick's Law - This law can be considered as a guideline for decisional making in a viewer's perspective
• Fitts Law - The time needed to move to a target is dependent upon the size of the target as well as the distance to the target.
• Accessibility -  When a visitor enters the website, he or she must be able to access each bit of information in the easiest manner. Typefaces must be readable to all and is not too fancy for some to access or understand. Make your own palette and choose contrasting colors for the background and written content so that it can be easily read.
• Visible Language - A web page design should communicate with the users clearly and in an engaging manner.
• Principles for a successful visual language

  • organize
  • economize
  • communicate
• White Space - helps divide the web page into several distinct parts or areas that make it simpler for the users to process information.