Gender and web design software
Gabor Horvath, Gloria Moss, Rod Gunn, Eszter Vass
There are several studies dealing with the differences between
sites originated by men and women. However, these references
are mainly related to the “output”, the final web site. In our
research we examined the input side of web designing. We
thoroughly analysed a number of randomly selected web
designer softwares to see, whether and to what extent the
templates they offer determine the final look of an individual’s
website. We have found that most of them are typical masculine
templates, which makes it difficult to any women to design a
feminine looking website. It can be one of the reasons of the
masculine website hegemony on the web. Full Text
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