Good web design and conventions

You should be finishing off your research work into school websites that are currently out there on the net,

You will be starting to get a good idea for what works well and what doesnt.

However some of you are new to web design and also media studies so ive added a link below to a very interesting website that talks through all the stages a professional web designer goes through when creating a website.

I suggest you have a look through it to start building up an idea of good design for the web.

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

Dont assume that all the answers are on this page though! the internet is a busy place full of lots of different opinions, so make sure you take every oppourtunity to look around at whats out there.

Your tasks for today are to get your school website research up and on your blog, and to then research 'conventions of webdesign' and post about the following points;

• What is a convention?


• Why are they useful?


• Do we have to use them all the time?


• What examples of conventions are found in webdesign?


• You may link to websites with examples of web conventions or screen capture them and post them on your blog.


• I also want to see some examples of websites that bend or break the conventions, with your opinions of if they still work as a good design.

Here is an example of a website that breaks with the usual 'conventions' of a webpage and looks good.