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Q : What is Browser-safe Color Palette / Web-safe Colors?
Browser-safe Color Palette only holds 216 colours out of a possible 256 (8 bit). Back to the olden days when most people have the first computer , the computer back then had a 8-bit graphic cards which compare to now is a huge different, and I mean it ”Different” .
So if you are using an 8-bit graphic cards computer and surfing the net at that time, the internet browser only can display the color palette range below 256. It sounds so strange that even u have an 8-bit graphic card why the browser cannot displays in full 256 color?
In the past, researchers tested out some colour together and found out that certain color put together will cause dithering effect. They literally tested all of them with one another and came out with a set of 216 color and they advised to be the “web-safe” color palette. Moreover, out of that 216 color 22 color will be the “really safe” as it certainly shown without changeable even with the present graphic cards.
Q : Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?
NO, it is because in this modern society everyone using the most “IN” and advance technology. Now from 8bit graphic cards, it changes to 16 or 32 bit. I believe that it is safe to design without the palette since so few or hardly any computer users view the web in 256 colors anymore.
Q : What are the common fonts face found on PC & MAC?
The common fonts are also called or referred to “browser safe fonts”.
These are some of the common fonts,
Arial
Arial black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Impact
Lucida Console
Lucida Sans Unicode
Palatino Linotype
Tahoma
Times New Roman (commonly seen)
Trebuchet MS
Webding
MS Sans Serif
Q : What is page loading time and how it influence your design?
Page loading time is the time that takes the page to translate after you have click a link that you want. Depends on what you put for your webpage, it influence your design and also makes the loading time varied. File size maybe the one that causes how fast the page going to load. Take into consider, designing a web to the maximum page file size which will really take a reasonable amount of time to load. Expecting your visitor to wait till your web page loads is a wishful thinking. They would just move to their mouse to the top right hand corner and click the close button. In the end, no visitor will want to click your webpage anymore.
Q : Read about Web Design Process article above and write what you think about it
(http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/web-design-and-worflow-process-comparison/)
After reading through the web design process article, I realized that there are a lot of steps in which to create a good webpage. Getting the steps by steps manner it really helps us to do our stuff fast and straight to the point without having to think about what to do next. These steps really help to organise our work better and save time. Even with that, it conveys us sort of like a professional web designer if you are not really good at it.
From that article, there are many ways to adapt from one of the processes. However, the common ones that appear are the design and production. These things are to take consideration of how well you do, analysis every aspect of how the design going to be evaluate and show it to the people creativity. At the start it is good to understand everything that we are doing as we are the ones working with it. In short, to realize what you are doing is the most important to designing a good webpage with a good workflow.
