For anyone getting into
the field of website creation and design, as I am, a little background knowledge is in
order.
The World Wide Web was the brainchild
of Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist that Time magazine ranks among the top 100 minds of the century. In much
the same way that Gutenberg’s printing press impacted society, Berners-Lee’s
Web has brought profound changes to the way we conduct business, find and share
information, socialize, and communicate.
To establish international
Web standards and manage its growth and development, Berners-Lee founded and heads
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization consisting of member
organizations, a full-time staff, and the public. The significance of the W3C,
for anyone involved in creating websites, is that this governing body dictates
both HTML and CSS standards.
Another person of
influence, with regards to website design, is Jakob Nielsen, one of the world’s leading
web usability consultants. Nielsen has published a number of books on web
usability and website design and also issues a biweekly column, Alertbox, on
usability issues. Follow this link to read what he considers to be the top ten mistakes
in web design.
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