Chapter 2
1.) By dividing a site's information in categories, it will make the task of presenting what's most important easier during the first initial steps of a site's creation.
2.) It is important to understand who the target audience of the website will be order to properly and efficiently accounted their needs.
3.) The navigation elements of the site should be presently clearly so that the viewer can easily access the information they are looking for. This is done by initially creating a navigation frame which levels off the most important information to the lest important.
4.) A web site should have a "voice" that communicated to the viewer through the visual presentation of information.
5.) The best way to keep a site organized is by planning ahead, coming up with mind maps, and to have a full understanding of the site's target audience and initial goals.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Mission Statement: Campus Ministry
My goal of redesigning the Campus Ministry webpage is to make the site easily accessible, modern and clean. Because it's a religious-based site I want the overall look to be mellow and zen. I will create this effect by using muted colors and round- edged shapes. A Quinnipiac student who logs on to the site looking for information will find the most important news laid out to them in a bold, clear manner. The webpage will provide pictures and contact information of the Pastoral Leadership Counsel as well as an overview of the ministry as a whole. I want those who access the site to understand exactly what the Ministry stands for and provides and will hopefully be inspired to learn more.
My goal of redesigning the Campus Ministry webpage is to make the site easily accessible, modern and clean. Because it's a religious-based site I want the overall look to be mellow and zen. I will create this effect by using muted colors and round- edged shapes. A Quinnipiac student who logs on to the site looking for information will find the most important news laid out to them in a bold, clear manner. The webpage will provide pictures and contact information of the Pastoral Leadership Counsel as well as an overview of the ministry as a whole. I want those who access the site to understand exactly what the Ministry stands for and provides and will hopefully be inspired to learn more.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Mission Statement:
My goal is to make a simple, clean page with one main image as the overall focus. This bold image will be used to initially draw the viewer in and make them interested in learning more about me. The simplicity of the page will allow the viewer to understand what is the most important information about me. The color scheme will consist of mostly greens, yellows and pinks which are my favorite color combinations. My hobbies, interests, and goals will all be presented in this site.
My goal is to make a simple, clean page with one main image as the overall focus. This bold image will be used to initially draw the viewer in and make them interested in learning more about me. The simplicity of the page will allow the viewer to understand what is the most important information about me. The color scheme will consist of mostly greens, yellows and pinks which are my favorite color combinations. My hobbies, interests, and goals will all be presented in this site.
Chaper 1
-The word "language" is not a term used literally when referring to the web. A web page's "language" is not only the textual information it holds but how the entire layout of a page "speaks" to its viewer. This is based on the organziation of the page and if it effectively communations the information it holds.
-To effectively communicate the overall message of a site, it is important to know the target audience of the site and base the organization and design on the users interests.
-To make the best site possible for a client, a design must fully understand the "message" of the company or organization. This is done by extensive research of the company and what their main goals are.
-A good web page is created through a designer's full understanding of a company and who their target audience is.
-Once the design has a complete understanding of the company and it's audience it will make the site's overall goal more clear and presented more efficiently.
-The word "language" is not a term used literally when referring to the web. A web page's "language" is not only the textual information it holds but how the entire layout of a page "speaks" to its viewer. This is based on the organziation of the page and if it effectively communations the information it holds.
-To effectively communicate the overall message of a site, it is important to know the target audience of the site and base the organization and design on the users interests.
-To make the best site possible for a client, a design must fully understand the "message" of the company or organization. This is done by extensive research of the company and what their main goals are.
-A good web page is created through a designer's full understanding of a company and who their target audience is.
-Once the design has a complete understanding of the company and it's audience it will make the site's overall goal more clear and presented more efficiently.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Introduction
-I like how the author started the introduction by comparing the evolution of a person and the evolution of the internet. Both started with very limited ways of communication but throughout their growth has gathered information and is now able to "speak" is a complex manner.
-Like a child developing in its adolencence, early computer models were "immature" and hard to operate. It took years of growth and developmemt for them for them to fuction properly.
-The World Wide Web has gone through 6 stages of development in its 10 years of life. Each stage learned from its predesessor through its evolution.
-6 stages of web development: the simple sharing era, the image and table era, the design intro era, the techno-hype era, the usability era, and the speaking web
-The simple sharing era was the web's beginning phase when only simple text was used to communicate between researchers and academics.
-The image/table era was a time when basic images as well as text were being shared by the limited users of the web. This blossomed into the creation of web sites and eventually into the first web browser (Netscape).
-The usability era was when the web began function better internally as well as externally. Usability professionals developed concepts to cut download times through minimizing page sizes. This made the web easily accessable.
-The web is now at a stage where its function is not an issue anymore. The internet is now an household name with millions of people using it to communicate and gather information. This makes the presentation of a web site one of the most important aspects of gaining viewers.
-I like how the author started the introduction by comparing the evolution of a person and the evolution of the internet. Both started with very limited ways of communication but throughout their growth has gathered information and is now able to "speak" is a complex manner.
-Like a child developing in its adolencence, early computer models were "immature" and hard to operate. It took years of growth and developmemt for them for them to fuction properly.
-The World Wide Web has gone through 6 stages of development in its 10 years of life. Each stage learned from its predesessor through its evolution.
-6 stages of web development: the simple sharing era, the image and table era, the design intro era, the techno-hype era, the usability era, and the speaking web
-The simple sharing era was the web's beginning phase when only simple text was used to communicate between researchers and academics.
-The image/table era was a time when basic images as well as text were being shared by the limited users of the web. This blossomed into the creation of web sites and eventually into the first web browser (Netscape).
-The usability era was when the web began function better internally as well as externally. Usability professionals developed concepts to cut download times through minimizing page sizes. This made the web easily accessable.
-The web is now at a stage where its function is not an issue anymore. The internet is now an household name with millions of people using it to communicate and gather information. This makes the presentation of a web site one of the most important aspects of gaining viewers.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
The author's preface begins by stressing the importance of the visual presentation of a website. The images on a site are the first thing that the end user sees and draws interest from. If the design scheme is organized and visually appealing, it gives the user more incentive to browse the information on the page. The author explains that this book is not intended to give the reader step-by-step instructions on how to create a webpage. Rather he gives design "considerations" that are intended to inspire the reader to create original solutions to their own personal work. In the book he uses a wide range of example sites in order to show how designers create different solutions to fit their specific task.
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