- Website architecture
Website architecture is an approach to the design and planning of websites which, like
architecture itself involves technical, aesthetic and functional criteria. As in traditional architecture, the focus is properly on the user and on user requirements. This requires particular attention to web content, a business plan, usability, interaction design, information architecture and web design. For effectiveSearch Engine Optimisation it is necessary to have an appreciation of how a single website relates to theWorld Wide Web .Since web content planning, design and management come within the scope of
design methods , the traditional Vitruvian aims of Commodity, Firmness and Delight can guide the architecture of websites, as they do physical architecture and other design disciplines. Website architecture is coming within the scope ofAesthetics andCritical Theory and this trend may accelerate with the advent of theSemantic Web andWeb 2.0 . Both ideas emphasise the structural aspects of information.Structuralism is an approach to knowledge which has influenced a number of academic disciplines including aesthetics, critical theory andpostmodernism . Web 2.0, because it involvesuser-generated content , directs the website architect's attention to the structural aspects of information."Website architecture" has the potential to be a term used for the intellectual discipline of organizing website content. "Web design", by way of contrast, describes the practical tasks, part-graphic and part-technical, of designing and publishing a website. The distinction compares to that between the task of
editing a newspaper or magazine and itsgraphic design andprinting . But the link between editorial and production activities is much closer for web publications than for print publications.Website design styles
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Website design styles Over the short history of the web, various architectural and artistic styles have developed among different online language, national, social and cultural communities. Such differences in website design styles would set European websites apart from North American ones, Taiwanese websites from the ones originated in Mainland China (marked by the tendency to proliferate pop-up windows activated by left-click), Japanese (marked by employment of bright colors and flashing cute anime characters) from Korean (marked by gray text-white background, clean, "MacIntosh"-style interface). Especially innovative is a style originated in the Netherlands and other Dutch-speaking online communties, of the web interface heavily drawing on flash and postmodern visual arts at the expense of text and ordinary functionality.
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Aesthetics
*Content management
*Critical theory
*Design methods
*Information architecture
*Interaction design
*Search Engine Optimization
*Website
*Web design
*World Wide Web External links
* [http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/ Website Architecture Theory]
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