From the started questions; designing for the web and for print are two different worlds. My last job was for a hardware stores online store at their corporate office. The department was in the same room that they sold the print flyers. Many times I was approached to put a copy of the printed circulars on the website. Time after time they failed. No one wants to look at a static PDF page of flat images and text. Finally they agreed to give me the data and let me build what I thought would work. I created a department of the sale items. It was searchable, sortable, and was much more adapted for the web. So first hand experience says that print and electronic media are two separate beasts.
Design and usability are not the same thing; however, you website's design should be accessible and very user friendly. In other words design encapsulates both usability and accessibility.
Accessibility is the ease that people can find the information that they are looking for on your website. Usability is how easy they can get to that information. When these work together with even a bad graphic design of a website can still make the website successful.
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