Implementing a Website in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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The California standards are well-considered.

The templates are great and very adjustable.

Available for you to learn from, borrow from and use.

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Usability Standards (Partial)

• Be thoughtful, refine over time
  • Establish goals
  • Make important/common tasks simple
  • Test, refine
• User Experience
  • Be consistent, repeatable
  • Don't overload with information
• Homepage
  • Clean and Appealing
  • Provides overview of what's covered in site, possible to do
• Page Layouts
  • Clean and Consistent
  • Logo on every page
• Navigation
  • Be consistent
  • Use subgroupings
  • No dead-ends
• Minimize scrolling – but don't avoid it
• Facilitate scanning
• Use headings, titles, labels and lists
• Label Links meaningfully
  • Download Report vs. Click Here
• Fonts
  • Larger, Sans Serif
  • Dark text with plain backgrounds
• Make the content understandable, brief and to-the-point
• Offer Search functionality
• Make errors easy to understand (and hard to receive)