These pages are the result of a 5 month project investigating what makes a web page usable, and thus effective.

Members of staff in all departments of University College Winchester (formerly King Alfred's College) were questioned as to the use that they would possibly make of webpage design (within teaching, research, and assessment). Usability and information structure were deemed more important than aesthetics, although this was still a consideration. Designed primarily for use by students, the site offers options for web design, rather than hard and fast rules, the site was also designed to meet the needs of academic staff who were seeking to teach theories of web design. The site was designed to be largely static, as it is more issue-led, rather than a 'how-to' of the latest web building software. Occasionally information is added, and recently I added a border to the site, a simple change which makes it look slightly more up-to-date.

http://www.winchester.ac.uk/designproject/