| Category |
Goals |
Specifications |
| Navigation |
- Quick access to all pages and files
- Multiple paths to a file (hierarchical/web hybrid)
- Easy to update, maintain, restructure, add content
- Titles and footers on every page
- Easy to get back home or to contents pages
- Accessible to browsers
- Works for most popular screen resolutions, especially 1024x768
- Easy access to frequently used information
- Navigation elements take up little screen space
- Details of linked pages
- No independently scrolling frames
- No pull-down menus
- Works on any PHP-based hosting service
- Distinguish navigation and content
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- Link to home in upper left corner of every page
- Top-level and second-level navigation at top of every page
- Third-level navigation on left sidebar of every
group of pages
- Home page contains links to most popular features
(resume, activities, random photo and document, this document)
- Navigation can contain links to both indexes and content pages
- All links to index pages (including Home) should be indicated using
boldface
- All images should use alt attributes
- Minimize
JavaScript
- All links in navigation frames use title attributes (Windows tool
tips)
- Use CSS and PHP to highlight iframe link that matches
current page
- Use background shading for navigation
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| Appearance |
- Consistent look and feel on every page
- Clean, bright, precise, serious, enjoyable
- Look and feel combines Africa and technology
- Easy to read text
- Thumbnails small but identifiable
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- Stylesheets and relatively clean, standard, browser-independent XHTML
- Use black text on white background
- Link colors match color scheme (green and brown)
- Logo appears in upper left corner
- Headings are large and bold
- Body text uses sans serif font
- Use embedded thumbnails to illustrate individual pages
- Images/thumbnails should be 640x480/128x96 or less
- Home page includes a random photo with link to more
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| Files and Folders |
- Combine hierarchical and web structure
- Broad rather than deep
- Clear, consistent, expandable file and folder naming
- Fit all files on a low-cost web hosting service (<1 GB )
- Keep individual and total file sizes small
- Pages download fast
- Clearly indicate download file sizes and contents
- Keep only the best content
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- All file and folder names in all lowercase, hyphens instead of spaces
or underscores
- Index pages named index.htm or index.php
- Store all large images in photos folder; thumbnails in thumbs
folder
- Create a document database with search and sort features
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