From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer
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What people expect from a website
From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer
What people expect from a website
- [Instructor] The web has been around for about 30 years, which is enough time for some standards to emerge. As a web user, you know some of these things instinctively because you see them every day. But as a web developer, you have to explicitly know them in order to implement them. This is the world's first ever website, and if I click executive summary, we go to a typical page. The page scrolls vertically, links are visually distinctive, there's a hierarchy of the headings, and so on. Now here's the modern LinkedIn Learning website. The page still scrolls vertically, but links no longer have such a consistent look, and the hierarchy of headings isn't as strict, along with many, many other stylistic changes. Now this is all pretty typical for a website today. So today's visitors find it familiar and can use it without confusion. And that's your goal as a web designer, to present something that's familiar so people can use it,…
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