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Web Site Usability Style Guidelines

For sites to be usable, they need to have a cohesive style. We help clients to develop custom guidelines for their site which include:

  • Branding
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  • Exceptions
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  • ID Graphic
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  • Important Highlights
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  • Layout
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  • Typography
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  • Imagery
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  • Links
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  • Navigation
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  • Color
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    There are a number of good design guidelines on the web. The following are those we find useful and recommend to our clients:

      Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide (Lynch & Horton, 1997)

        http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

      Ameritech Web Page User Interface Standards and Design Guidelines (Detweiler & Omanson, 1996)

        http://www.ameritech.com/corporate/testtown/library/standard/index.html

      Sun's Guide to Web Style (1996)

        http://www.sun.com/styleguide/

      IBM Web Guidelines (1998)

        http://www.ibm.com/ibm/easy/design/lower/f030100.html


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