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HERE YA GO LADIES. ENJOY.

Well apparently, the palette of web-safe colours has a trillion other names, such as; Browser-Safe Color Palette, Netscape palette, 216 palette, Web palette, and/or 6x6x6 color cube. And from the research I;ve done, the people who created these browser-safe palette colours have absolutely no sense of design. Mostly, the palette contains a really limited range of lighter and darker colors, and is full of highly saturatedm eye-blinding colors and less muted, tinted or toned colors.

Nowadays the only reason to use a Browser safe-colour palette is probably if your web design homework is gonna be viewed from a 256 color (8-bit) computer, which is the minority nowadays. 10 years ago, it was the majority, so life was pretty sad for the eyes of those users…

Well there are a few other reasons actually, if you’re gonna make a handphone or PDA application..you’re probably gonna need those sassy shades again.

The Browser-Safe Palette, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape, and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. It contains 216 colors out of a supposed 256. That is because the remaining 40 colors are different depending on whether you’re a Mac or PC supporter. By eliminating the 40 variable colors, this palette is optimized for cross-platform use. It’s basically useful if you do alot of flat-color illustrations, logos with flat-color, and areas in any image that abuse alot of the same colour.

2. Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?

Computing technology has way surpassed that era, therefore only a minority use the Browser-Safe colour palette. However, some companies still appreciate old shcool honours, so why not?

3. What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?

Love google. Feast your eyes:

4. What is page loading time and how it influence your design?

My own common sense tells me that page loading time is the amount of precious time wasted while the page downloads all the neccessary visuals and scripts to appease your eyeballs appetites.  And everyone knows, the longer the page load time, the more you want to pee in your pants, therefore if it takes too long, you’ll click the attractive little “x” at the top right corner of your browser. Handy-dandy.

Well i guess the best way to reduce the annoying bit is to reduce the file size or host it locally.

5. Web D. Proccess Comparison

Read about Web Design Process article above and
write what you think about it (at least 150 words):
I guess the Web design proccess is about the same as any piece of client based work like illustration or graphic design, because from the start to the end, you’ll have to work with your client to know what he/she wants. Time and again they may reject your work, but nevertheless every step takes you to a higher level.  During conceptualizing, a massive amount of sketching, doodling and scribbling will be done allover your sketchbooks and papers in the form of thumbnails and notes. It’s always good to start with a wide range of ideas, ask your client what he has in mind, do a fatload of research(to get inspiration if you’re out of ideas) and then try to visualize it and put it in black and white. I find that it’s important to frequently have checks with your client and not complete your work to quickly so as to know that you’re going on the right track. If you finish a piece of work too soon, your client might reject and and, boohoo, you’ll have to go back to basics.

The design proccess comes before the scripting, thats for sure. You have to know what you want by the time you’re typing out your codes. Of course, your design has to be approved by your client before you start working on it. Thumbnails to superimposing to finalizing the design. You also have to think about the readability, your compositioning of where you’re gonna be placing your images or links and how to make it look professional. Also, it can be interactive so as to not bore the user. The content has to be interesting as well and not just full of words to blind all your readers. (Thats where typography come’s in!) It’s not just the layout that is important, so is the text and images and how you’re gonna put them all together to appeal to viewers. And your links have to work of course, what’s the point of a website if all the functions arent working.

And of course, the biggest chore, testing your site on different browsers.

I find that organizing your work is a crucial contributing factor to web design. Without having the discipline to organize your work, you’ll be wasting alot of time searching for flaws and mistakes you might have made in the proccess of coding. Therefore it’s always important to follow a managable proccess in order for everything to surface cleanly.

Enjoy.

CLICK ON IT ITS NOT A VIRUS.

and in response to Princess’ post on Sony’s Bravia ad, check out the making off it:

More cool adverts and short films since everyone’s spamming them:

Snickers Tag

Do robots dream of bunnies?

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari

2. What is “browser wars”?

Competition for the highest number of users between different web browsers.

3. What is an I.P. Address?

Internet Protocal Address, is a mode of identification in numbers.

4. What is a URL?

Uniform Resource Locator, is a web address that is used to identify resources.

5. What is a good website?

A good website, in my opinion, consists of design that appeals to viewers using visual elements to render it attractive. Also, its interface has to be user friendly in order for new users to access and interact with the website comfortably.