Designing for webpage such as the blog is not the same as designing for print media. Therefore, the main dilemma is that most of the designers got disorganized and end up designing an unpleasant document.
According to Nielsen (1999) newspaper designers have a huge canvas to play with. Their design can be a remarkable one and contain much more information than a webpage. Normally, we can notice that more facts and figures are imagined in smaller graphics around the page. There is a plenty of room to place a large amount of typography that is nicely integrated with the headlines, graphics and sub-headings in the layout to allow our eye to move freely to view the details. The best example is the Spanish newspaper below that is printed in a large and high-resolution.
Gold medal: Expansion (Spanish newspaper)
Source: Jakob Nielson's Alertbox 1999
An overview of Jakob Nielsen vs. the designers was provided in Webmaster (2008) web design is all about a balance between aesthetics and usability. A webpage has to be in balance in order for it to be regard as a well-designed site. A webpage is a scrolling experience as contrasting to a canvas experience. Online media has different design layouts compared to the print media because it need to suit their purposes. As suggested by Walsh (2006, p. 34) the purpose of these texts either in online or print media is to engage the reader to a literary narrative and affordances of the modes, verbal and visual.
Reference List
- Nielsen, J 1999, Differences between Print Design and Web Design, useit.com, viewed 17 November 2009, <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html>
- Jakob Nielsen vs. the Designers 2008, Webmaster, viewed 17 November 2009, <http://www.webmaster-source.com/2008/12/19/jakob-nielsen-vs-the-designers/>
- Walsh, M 2006, "The Textual shift': examining the reading process with print, visual and mulmodal texts", Australian journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37
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