Technologies for User Centered Designs
- Design to HTML Standards
- Validate HTML for maxium browser
compatibility
- Use headers for major topics (H1-H6)
- Use OL, UL
and DL for lists
- Use MAP element to indicate navigation bars
- Use LABEL for form controls
- Use IDs on TH and HEADERS for TD
(Tabular data tables)
- Use CSS for text styling
- Relative font sizes (i.e. %)
- Foreground and background colors
- List of prefered fonts + one generic font
- Use CSS for
major layout or simple tables
- Float and Clear properties
- Page
linearization needs to make sense
- Avoid nested tables
- Use CSS for minor minor positioning
- Margin property
- Border
property
- Padding property
- Use relative and percentages, rather
than fixed sizes
- Use background images for graphical
styling
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