Francois Briatte has recently reported a lot of idlessions on website design. This report surveyed 10 famous designers designed and compared to how the designers handled 25 public design elements. At the same time, he also made a detailed analysis on the processing of these websites on that 25 issues in the same or different ratio.
I recommend this interesting investigation report to each designer. If you don't have time, I will summarize what I think is the most important point of view and add some of my own conclusions and explains (some possibilities to Briatte's views) for you.
Similar point of website design
According to the survey, 10 network designers have significant similarities when dealing with a few layout factors. This is a list of public elements that appear in the probability of 80% or even higher on the site designed by the designers.
Link or return link Use Underline Taste The Accessed Links and General Links typically distinguish between the link to the home page or the index page of the page, you can click on the tip of the page. The text background is a white text body for the Sans-Serif font, using the appropriate symbol (using the active / escape code "symbol and the aposus instead of the general symbol of the general body) Navigation method is not more than six each page contains A detailed copyright declaration of the full name of the designer on each page is the following is an element that appears below 80% on the website: XML front complement report appears on the left (but the most popular on the right) button is The famous STEAL THESE button can be used to create a keyboard shortcut in the shortcut. All these designers are similar to some public elements. This is not surprising. Use the underscore link, set a clickable flag map at the top of each page, which is a consistent footnote in the bottom of the site, which is a conventional conventional practice. These layout elements have been deeply rooted in the impression of the web visitor, and designers can certainly understand how important these expectations to meet the visitor. Briatte believes that the white background is mainly inherited from the print design. In a sense, this may be correct. But I don't think so, I think the designers do this to do this to meet the expectations of visitors, because the white background can feel familiar and comfortable when visiting visitors. Unlike the printing standard, most designers use SANS-Serif as a text body. As Briatte pointed out, the designers know clearly: SERIF font is easier to identify in print, while the SANS-Serif font is more convenient to read on the screen. It is very interesting that the website designer pays special attention to the details of the typography, such as the use of wavers, apostrophes or dash, etc., which consist of the characters. Based on empirical practices, these websites restrict navigation bars within six. This is not unfortunate, because the use of six navigation bars make the website work well, so it evolves into this rule. Similarly, the designer will labeze a detailed copyright statement on each page, which is also very reasonable. In today's society, there is a need for this legal. Briatte attaches great importance to this phenomenon, that is, designers note their full name on each page, not with nickname. For me, if a designer is not signed in his work, it is a surprising thing. After all, most of them have buddted by the website, after doing so, each page is their professional advertisement.
In these designers, no one uses an XML front in their website. This is the opposite of the official recommendation, but also recognizes the fact that the XML front will trigger some questions on the primary browser. These websites raise the horizontal gear on the left, and the right is very common (70%), as for why do this, I am not very clear. Briatte believes that it is placed on the left. But I think it is a structural improvement on the source code to support the text (the content of the horizontal gear), and then combined with the cross-section to the left. It is believed that this is a style trend. The button graphics on many websites are generally based on Steal Tse, but they are not adopted. These professional designers certainly will not borrow others's design, they will naturally create their own unique styles of buttons.
In the highly consistent design style of designers, they are really amazingly that only two people have designed shortcuts for keyboards to navigate web pages. Obviously, or because of accessibility or because of availability, these designers believe that these designers do not have to trouble to set the shortcuts of the keyboard. This situation may also be changed later.
Differences in website design
Most designers use the same way to handle some elements in website design, which is not amazing. However, the survey report did not point out that they have some interesting differences in other respects.
When I found that the fixed layout is much more than the flow layout, it is simply stunned. The fixed layout has their own placements, but I still look forward to these multi-faced designers to show their skills on the flow layout. Designers may be tired of strict operations on the mobile layout of the customer site. They prefer a relatively simple fixed width layout for personal websites.
Another thing that made me amazing is that only 70% of the designer uses XHTML, I originally imagined that 100% of the designer will adopt. There is another thing that makes me amazing is 60% of websites on their navigation bar, using an image-based scroll bar rather than using pure CSS scrolling.
They still have a interesting difference that 60% of designers use strict file types, which means they must follow the more stringent coding standards of that specification. Comparience, nearly half of people like relatively loose file types, such as transitional.
These websites have the same search box stand-alone display style sheet, which is also the difference between them. If these strongly recommended methods are conducive to the website search more character, I am strange why they have to do so ordinary. Half of the site does not show a style sheet, which is more easy to explain, because their design makes it possible to successfully print even if there is no independent style table for the print.
In the same way
I think the most interesting thing is not to view the data in the survey report, but to visit these actual sites. Some websites reflect the current trend and layout style. In fact, some websites are responsible for the formation of this trend. Although these websites have significant similarities, they still have a lot difference. This is not like cut bread - get a collection of replica. Designers have sufficient space to play his creativity and show their self-expression in the restricted frame of the convention and the proven technology.
