Claris Home Page 3.0 and Web Page Design Claris Home Page 3.0 offers MIC participants a great opportunity to use the World Wide Web in the classroom. Before beginning the layout of a page, it is best to sit down and think about the purpose of the page or cluster of pages to be designed. A page designed for personal use could differ greatly from a page designed for a school or organization. A page designed for grade school students has a very different look than a page designed for college students. The first concept to understand about web page design is readability.
Web pages are a very visual medium.
Just as there are magazines that are difficult to read and poorly laid out, there are web pages with the same problems. Web page designers often make pages which seem visually attractive but fail to convey information. They may say a great deal about the designers particular taste in backgrounds but little about the project they have been working on or the material they took the time to write. Simple is often the best way to approach a web page. A white background, or softly textured light backgrounds, often work the best in web pages.