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Principle 1: Structure

The Terrain

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Structure and Access: 2 Fundamental Web Design Principles
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Introduction

Principle 1:
Structure

Principle 2:
Access
 
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These differences concern the fundamentals of media format, the context, display medium, the apparatuses of continuity and sense-making.
spacerThe format of the web "window" is wide rather than long and deep rather than flat. It lends itself to a distributed rather than a hierarchical structure.
spacer As designers we are participants in a formative process that is an educator's nightmare. There are, however, recognisable traits that assert their legitimacy as enduring principles.
spacer The foremost are concerned with the organisation of information that underlies display, plus the need to design a page for access by the maximum number of users.
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Principle 2:
Access

The Terrain

Making it Easy

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