Paper Info
Title
An Extension of the Web-Page Layout Optimization Method for Multimodal Browsing Sizes
Abstract
Recently, Web-page browsings at various terminals have become popular due to deployments of small mobile devices and large flat displays. To deal with this recent trend, we have proposed a Web-page layout optimization method for multimodal browsing sizes. It dynamically changes box locations and font sizes by switching CSS files for different browsing sizes, so that the main content can be accessed without the screen scroll operation even at a small size whereas the blank space is avoided at a large size. However, in this method, any box location must be specified by the absolute value in HTML/CSS files, which is not easy under a variety of browsing sizes. In this paper, we propose the extension of this method for flexible Web-page designs using the normal flow, the liquid layout, and the float property, where the browser automatically arranges the boxes. Using Ajax, the box location and the font size is switched to fit to the current browsing size by our method. The effectiveness of our proposal is verified through a usability test using sample Web-pages at small sizes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/NBiS.2010.18
Network-Based Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,Web design,character sets,hypermedia markup languages,information retrieval,online front-ends,optimisation,Ajax,CSS file,HTML file,Web page browsing,Web page layout optimization method,box location,content access,flat display,float property,font size,liquid layout,mobile device,multimodal browsing size,normal flow,screen scroll operation,usability test,Ajax,CSS,Web page layout,multimodal size,normal flow,optimization
Web design,Point (typography),World Wide Web,Algorithm design,Page layout,Computer science,Usability,Mobile device,Ajax,Character encoding
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2157-0418 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4167-9
978-0-7695-4167-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nobuo Funabiki122769.87
Junki Shimizu2111.34
Megumi Isogai3116.21
Toru Nakanishi421038.25