Web Interface Design

• Today's web interface design to a legacy or non-web system, or web design to a web-based application, is influenced by the following four major factors:
  
• Web content can go wide and deep.
  
• Web content is authored in "hypertext" format.
• Web content can be presented through various types of media (e.g., text, graphics, audio, video, animation, etc.)
  
• Modern web users tend to be more experience sensitive through intuition and expectation.
• Web is being accessed by a vast array of user agents (i.e. devices)
• There are three essential components of web interface design: 
• It starts with a Layout (i.e., template) to organize and present content.
• To enable browsing, it integrates a Navigation.
• For user experience, it employ Style.
• Some of the major principles for web interface design:
• Usability
• Visualization
• Functionality 
• Responsiveness
  
• Visibility
• Accessibility
• Extensibility
  
• Maintainability
  
• Browser Compatibility