1) What is Browser-Safe Color Palette / Web-Safe Colors?
Is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and the Internet Explorer use within their browsers.The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs. The Browser-Safe Palette only contains 216 colors out of a possible 256. That is because the remaining 40 colors vary on Macs and PCs. By eliminating the 40 variable colors, this palette is optimized for cross-platform use. The Browser-Safe Palette is useful for flat-color illustrations, logos with flat-color, and areas in any image that have a lot of a single color. When a browser dithers flat colors it looks far more objectionable than when it dithers photographs.
2) Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?
Yes & No. Although nowadays, professional designer had a system that supported thousands or millions of colors, many companies that hire designers and developers still uses these 216 colors. Conversely, there’s no harm in using the browser-safe palette either. It simply limits your choices to 216 colors. At this point, there’s no right or wrong when it comes to which colors you pick, but more important to know how to combine colors in pleasing and effective ways.
3) What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?
Arial BIG family, Comic Sans Ms, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Palatino, Tahoma, Times New Romans, Verdana, Helvetica
4) What is page loading time and how it influence your design?
The time taken to load your websites. It needs to be fast as fast page load times are crucial for keeping users happy. This is especially true for e-commerce websites.
1. Faster pages make a better user experience.
2. It’s possible that page load times are directly associated with search engine rankings.
3. Slow pages lose money
5) A quite interesting and looong article for a “know nothing about web design” like me to follow. ( the instructional design process link is broken though) it bascally talks about the importance of the basic design rule like composition, imagery, color, typography and how to make use of it to execute it nicely to the design. I just realised that most year 1 modules can be useful to designing a web. It also talks the importance of the exploration you have done into designing web. Planning out by mapping out all the ideas.. thumbnails to plan out the layout of the web.. researches and discovering new ways to desing can be useful to the overall layout. When designing a web, questions like what are you trying to achieve in your design is important to ask yourself so that it wont ruin the feeling, concept and the style of the design. While developing your design, we need to be sure of what your client wants before launching. Communications with the clients as well as communicate through their website, what type of information they want the reader to not only see, but to REMEMBER your website. Overall, its a great resource to understand the workflow of designing a web. it gives me a better apporach to handling web design by steps that many follows.
