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From Roger C. Parker's Guide to Web Content and Design
Section 3, Chapter 8
Page 148

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This worksheet will help you begin to make the color, typeface and other choices appropriate to your market and your message. Your web site will function better when such decisions are made on the basis of your market, your message and your competition rather than your personal likes and dislikes.

1

Name three memorable and noteworthy Web sites (from a design point of view) you have visited.

URL 1

URL 2

URL 3

 

2

What are some of their color, typeface, layout, and movement characteristics?  (You may want to refer back to them while answering these questions.)  

Use of color (describe):

  

Use of type (describe):  

 

Layout (describe):   

 

 

3

What  are the age and sex characteristics of the Web site visitors you want your Web site to attract? 

 Male   Female   Both 

What age groups predominate?

 9-15 

 16-24 

 25-34 

 35-44 

 45-54 

 55 and over

 

4

What are the desired income characteristics of the Web site visitors you want to attract?  Household income:

___Under $25,000 

___$25,000 to $49,000 

___$50,000 to $99,000 

___Over $100,000

 

5

What are the attitudes that describe the Web visitors you want to attract?

___Cost conscious/ frugal 

___Conspicuous consumers 

___Risk taking 

___Security conscious 

___High-profile, i.e. desire attention 

___Low-profile, i.e. desire anonymity and quiet

___Other (describe)

 

6

Describe some of the characteristics of the image you want to project  (Select as many choices as you desire)

___Youthful 

___Trendy 

___Tradition oriented 

___Counter-culture 

___Healthy and healthful 

___Patriotic 

___Seasonal (if so, which season?) 

___Stable and conservative 

___Reassuring 

___Affordable 

___Expensive 

___Pragmatic 

___Excitement and risk-taking 

___High-tech lovers 

___Low-tech/ mechanically-oriented 

___Professional 

___Craftsman/works with hands 

___Quiet 

___Flamboyant

 

7

What colors are you considering using in your Web site? 

Background: 

Titles and headlines: 

Text: 

Links:

Current link:

Visited links:

 

8

How do you plan to use color to unify or code the different sections of your Web site?

___Headline and title text 

___Navigation links

___Graphic accents 

___Backgrounds 

___Other (describe)

 

9

Where do you plan to use graphic text? 

___Section Titles 

___Navigation links and/or buttons 

___Headlines 

___Subheads 

___Initial caps 

___Section intro's 

___Pull-quotes 

___Sidebars 

___Captions

 

10

What typefaces are you considering using for graphic type?

___Serif (Which?) 

___Sans Serif (Which?) 

___Script ( Which?) 

___Decorative (Which?)

 

11

How will you align the various text elements of page architecture? 

___Centered 

___Flush-left/ragged-right 

___Random

 

12

How will you emphasize subheads? 

___Contrasting type face 

___Contrasting type size 

___Contrasting type style 

___Placement (describe or illustrate below)

 

13

How will you use graphic accents to reinforce your image? 

___Page backgrounds 

___Table backgrounds 

___Separating text and graphic elements 

___Connecting text and graphic elements 

___Section dividers

 

14

What layout techniques will you use to project a desired image? 

___White space 

___Frames to organize links and background colors

 

15

Where will you place navigation links? 

___Top of each page 

___Bottom of each page 

___Left side of each page 

___Right side of each page

 

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