Web Design with HTML and CSS

Lesson 1, Planning Your Website 7

What you’ll learn

in this lesson:

• Defining the goals of
  web design


• Defining the user
  experience


• Understanding the
  difference between
  wireframes, prototypes,
  and mockups

Planning Your Website

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to improve your website by clearly

defi ning what you want the site to do during the planning process.

Starting up

This lesson does not use any lesson fi les, so you do not need to load any fi les before starting
this lesson.

See Lesson 1 in action!

Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of

the features shown in this lesson. You can fi nd the video tutorial for this lesson at

http://www.digitalclassroombooks.com using the URL provided when you registered your book.

The goals of web design

To understand how to create well designed websites, it is worth understanding the
fundamentals of design. Good design creates experiences that makes people’s lives easier, and
is also aesthetically pleasing. Here are some examples: a well-designed store makes it easy for
customers to fi nd products they are looking for, or maybe even products they never knew

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Lesson 1