Web Development
DART 230

• Navigation/usability site of the day from:
  Mike

Today’s topics are a last look at typography, and site usability, with an emphasis on navigation. Refer again to Web Development & Design Foundations Chapter 7.

Here is a summary page of my Top 12 Tips for using type on the Web.

Some navigation resources:

• One way to define what Usability means is to look at the Table of Contents from Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability
• Something related from Web Developer’s Virtual Library
• Comparison of 5 types of navigation devices from Grantastic Designs
• which you can compare to this list of ten devices from jessett.com
• A discussion of site structure from the Yale design group (Patrick Lynch).
• Here’s a series of examples from Lehigh University (Design- Navigation Examples) that show how navigation is thought through.
• The notoriousWeb Pages That Suck.

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