Sustainable Web Design Discussion
Hele Mai, Sustainable Web Design Meeting of the Minds. At this week’s Big Island Adobe User Group meeting, we’ll be holding our first of a series of sustainable web design discussions.
Specifically we’ll be addressing the following questions:
- What is sustainable web design?
- What makes a website sustainable?
- How can you create a website that is sustainable?
- How can you use a sustainable web design to sustain yourself using the web as a platform?
All these question and more will be addressed at the meeting on Tuesday at 5:30. Click the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page for more details.
Immediately following the Big Island Adobe User Group meeting there will be a Blogging Class for Big Island Blog Network Members. The class is free to Big Island Blog Network Members. All others pay $25 bucks. Online pre-registration for the blog class, aka Sustainable Web Design is required. Click here to pre-register at Green Collar Technologies.
For meeting details, please call Brent Norris 896-7656.
See you there!
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Simply put good web design drives up traffic and extends the range of visitors you can reach.
The benefits of good web site design are best epitomised by considering the value of accessibility to and usability by your potential visitors
If your web site has achieved high levels of both accessibility and usability it can bring greater reach, provide a more satisfactory experience and lead to a better return on your Internet investment.
It relies on considering the following areas:
* Discovery
o A well designed web site that conforms to good practice in terms of its technical design is much more likely to be found and indexed by the search engines and, consequently, by potential visitors. Unfortunately many sites fail in many ways to comply with these requirements
* Access
o A site that takes into consideration the many ways in which a visitor may try to access the site increases greatly the chances of getting and retaining that visitor. Browser compatibility is just one issues as you should now consider the viability of publishing for WAP, Digital TV and other media.
* Usability
o If a site is easy to use and easy to navigate then your visitor will be comfortable and more likely to find the information they want which will, potentially lead to a sale.
* Site maintenance
o Is much easier if the site is correctly designed. Design approaches and best practice actively help to reduce the time (and therefore cost) of maintaining your site – this is doubly true where Content Management is used to help in maintenance.
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solid post, I like your site too. I might also add the following to a list of good design traits, for starters:
Participation: trusting users enough to allow them to participate in a design enough to build community around an online product or service.
User-Centered Design – not the traditional kind, rather a devotion to the end user they can feel. For example, allowing the user some preference in the way the site works for them with close attention to the user’s environment, ie; browser/os. Includes the accessibility you mention above.
Multiple paths to goal content – meaning the user determines their path through a site. This isn’t always appropriate for sites that rely heavily on sales funnels for their sustainability but can be more appropriate for sites that rely on community.
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