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People around the world are into information nowadays. In the 
morning before going to the bathroom, expect that those who have gadgets 
will check what is stored in their gadget’s inbox or email address. One of 
these addresses that people usually visit is the website when they are 
online. This website maybe a social media or entertainment site. A website 
or web site is a set of related resources from the web. These resources were 
considered as web pages and multimedia (e.g.: videos, music, images)
Website is a tool in accessing information. A website is a collection of 
publicly accessible, interlinked Web pages that share a single domain name.

Websites can be created and maintained by an individual, group, business 
or organization to serve a variety of purposes.
Together, all publicly accessible websites constitute the World Wide 
Web. Although it is sometimes called “web page,” this definition is wrong, 
since a website consists of several webpages. A website is also known as a 
“web presence” or simply “site”.
Websites come in a nearly endless variety, including educational sites, 
news sites, porn sites, forums, social media sites, e-commerce sites, and so 
on. The pages within a website are usually a mix of text and other media. 
That said, there are no rules dictating the form of a website.
However, there are websites that offer you more than just reading 
articles or listening to your music. These are what we call online platform-
enabled websites. It is a platform-enabled website or online platform which 
gives a feature on which allows to manipulate the content of the website. 
Most of the online platforms requires you to register in order to publish, 
manipulate, organize, or even delete a certain web content. As a Senior High 
School student, you are expected to know the different online platform as 
this would help you in different task like connect people, stream your daily 
activity, shop online, or even creating a website of your own.
Here are the three types of online platforms:
1. Social Media Platforms are platforms that allow you to create your 
personal account or profile. After you register on this website, it will allow 
you to create pages or even groups where you can share content and ideas. 
Social Media platforms enable you to connect yourself to other users and get 
updates on their news feed. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are examples 
of social media platforms.
2. Blogging Platforms are platforms where a writer or even a group of 
writers can share views on an individual subject. It is comparable to a 
newsletter where you can add menus, designs, or even multimedia of a 
subject. Blogger is an example of blogging site. If you love to write or you want to share ideas online, a blogging platform is the perfect tool you can 
use.

3. Content Management System or CMS. One of the features of this 
platform is that you can publish your own website and manage its content 
through intranet or in a single computer. This is a software where you can 
easily create, update, organize, and publish the content of your website. A 
popular example of CMS is WordPress.

Below are the seven possible elements of a modern web design. 
1. Text - This is a mandatory element of a web page. However, visitors 
got distracted about the font family of the text on website. So, while you are 
designing your website, make sure that to choose well the font family and 
type that you need to use on your design and make the text is clear and in 
readable size.
2. Graphics/ Illustrations - Make sure that your images or 
illustrations are not pixelated or must be on good quality. There are times
that text give description to an image, so you make that these two elements 
are well arranged.
3. White space – It is very hard to direct the attention of your visitor’s eye if 
the website is crowded. White space gives your website a room to breathe.
4. Links - Links or hyperlinks allow user to jump to another site or page 
that is related to your site.
5. Color - The colors you use in your design are a very important aspect. 
There are times that colors become visually distracting to your viewers. As 
some web designers do, they use the company logo of their client as a color 
reference on their website.
6. Video/Audio - There are sites which use audio/video to help their 
visitors to better understand what they are selling or teaching. These 
elements of web designing really help your visitors especially those websites 
that offers tutorial of certain subject.
7. Background - Texture or background gives a more appealing sight to 
your website. This will provide your website a feeling of a surface 
underneath.
The use of elements of web design will make your website more 
appealing to your users but you need to make sure that your website is 
functional, responsive, and useful. To create a usable and effective website, 
follow the basic principles of an effective web design.
A. Portable Design - Website design must be portable and accessible. 
Your need must compatible with other operating systems and web browsers. 
You should also design your website on which it can be accessed to a 
different computer platforms or devices especially for those visitors who use 
mobile device to access a website.
B. Design for Low Bandwidth - Tot all users who are online are 
connected to a high-speed internet connection. In designing a website, you 
need to avoid large graphics or animations as the users may leave the site if 
downloading is slow.
C. Direction - Identify the order of importance of the various elements 
and place them in a sequence where the eye moves and perceives the things 
it sees. There should be consistent layout and structure. 
D. Simplicity - The more option you place in your site, the more 
difficult it is for a visitor to make a decision and more time is required to 
browse through them as what they usually say "simplicity is beauty".
E. Regular testing – Every device or project needs maintenance, same 
as your website. Website should be regularly upgraded, updated, and tested 
so that problems will be quickly resolved. Visitors who have encountered
errors like problems in loading or viewing in your website will not hold on.