Research About The Design Of Primary And Secondary Education Website Based On Formal Beauty Principles

The educational informationization in China has seen its rapiddevelopment during the past years as the increasing development of networkinformation technology. The primary and secondary education website is themanagement and service platform for online education and the governmentaladministrative service platform for education. It has taken over a critical position andplayed a key role in the educational informationization in China. It is the most directand effective way to promote the modernization of education. The aestheticappreciation of the end users is switching from focusing on the contents to betterartistry. Combining excellent website cases and individual cases, concentrating onboth theories and applicability, the thesis discusses the application of basic theories ofwebsite design and form beauty principle to practices, and analyzes the form beautydesign process in website design, as well as the relationship between form beauty andvisual elements. The thesis aims to provide valuable reference to educational websitedesigners for their aesthetic appreciation, artistic innovation and research, helpingthem overcome the blindness during design and enrich the contents of their design.The author, through this thesis, is advocating that the technical staff working onprimary and secondary education websites can appreciate and innovate the websitedesign from the perspective of aesthetics so as to conceive more and more excellentoutputs for school websites, educational institution websites and educational webportals.The theoretical foundation of the thesis is form beauty principle, and the researchmethods include literature research, experience summary, survey analysis and casestudies. Excellent website cases are selected from the “First National Education PortalWebsite Competition”, national excellent primary and secondary school websites,100national primary and secondary school websites, annual educational list issued byTencent etc. The design of Chengdu Education official website is also combined withthe excellent cases to analyze the design process and principles during the formbeauty website design. The thesis is divided into5chapters.Chapter I introduces the background and significance of the thesis, as well as thenational and international research on the application of visual elements and form beauty principle in educational website design. Chapter II summarizes the conceptsand features of primary and secondary education website, and elaborates the formbeauty theory including structure of the principle to provide the research withtheoretic support. Common features of the excellent websites are summarized and50excellent cases are selected and analyzed involving their visual elements such as Logo,characters, picture-character combination, color, layout and etc., which are thespecific presentation of form beauty principle. Chapter III is based on the basicquality of the designers and the process of form beauty design, summarizing thegeneral principle and discipline of form beauty design. Chapter IV combines theorywith practice, illustrating how to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of theprevious website design elements as well as how to design new website according tothe basic process and principle of form beauty design. The last chapter summarizesthe whole research and the insufficiency, orienting the future work and study for theauthor.The thesis combines modern education model with aesthetics and applicability toemphasize the vitality and value of education websites. Education websites designedbased on form beauty can meet the increasing beauty appreciation requirements ofend users. To put people and use experience first fits well into current trend andwebsites with form beauty can in turn develop more users with higher beautyappreciation. The thesis provides specific, scientific and feasible design principles andreferences for form beauty websites design through abundant cases, which is valuableand practical for designers in their aesthetic appreciation, artistic innovation andresearch.