Task 3: WWW Standards

After looking at a few sites for making a website, there seems to be a common understanding that there are certain rules that will help the site be used successfully by users. These can be minimal writing, appropriate use of links, writing for 'scanner' users, keep things simple and user friendly, and keep it interesting. I know my site doesn't utilise all these tools, and that I'm sure a lot of sites don't, but I think they could be on to something. I know I scan webpages, I never read them word for word. I also only giving pages a few seconds to load; if they don't then I go back to where I came from. IT'll be something I take into consideration next time I make a site.

When it comes to my site and copyright, then the only problem I can see (As long as the colour blue is copyrighted) is the chef picture I used. I'm unsure as to whether it's opensource or if it's someone's work :S. Which makes me a little nervous, but I'm sure if I was told by the html tutorial to use the image then I would presume that it's opensource... or I could be completely wrong and have stolen it. Either way I am now quite aware of what needs to be considered copyright and what can be used. I recently started putting together a website for my photography work (I used CMSimple, and a template) and noticed that to use the template I had to give permission to the artist to have his name at the bottom of my site, I really understand why this is required now.