Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Personal Web Site Mission Statement
The goal of my personal web site it to showcase the work I’ve done in the form of a portfolio. Included in the site or portfolio will be IDD work, outside work I did at an internship over the summer, and some of my interests, such as art, music and traveling. The design of the site will reflect my personality with it being simple, clean and having a color scheme of earth tones. The site’s audience will consist of students, friends, family and anyone else interested to see my work and get to know a little more about me.
Revised QU Branches Mission Statement
The objective for the QU Branches Catholic Campus Ministry web site is to provide a well structured and informing page that its audience, which are students, parents and alumni, can visit and enjoy. The site will be visually appealing with interactive elements, such as rollovers and a photo gallery, as well as keeping with the color scheme of the school’s colors, which are blue and gold. The main information that will be provided are updated events, weekly schedules, and content that Fr. John has written. The site will also have more of Fr. John’s stated needs and will hopefully become a popular site that will be within reach for visitors from outside of school.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Site-Seeing: Chapter 2
> The theme of this chapter is to always have a plan before executing a project, and in this case, that project is a web site. Your plan should consist of ideas about navigation, personality, organization and interaction. These four items will help with the building of a site and in the end, allow your audience to understand what you want to tell or "speak" to them.
> Organization of a site is a crucial part that needs to be clear in categories, navigation, content, etc for you audience to make sense of each category and be able to understand what the main theme or message is.
> It's good to remember that, as Wroblewski states, "the web lacks any real 'physical space'," meaning that you need to provide clues for a user to understand where they are in your site. If you don't have navigation elements on all of your sites pages, then your audience will most likey get lost.
> It's important to keep in mind that less is more. This is great to remember with web site building becuase the more cluttered you make your site with navigation, images, content, ads, etc. the more it will take away from your main point and distract/make things complicated for the user.
> Personality is a key contributor when building a site. Personality determines the kind of audience that will visit your site. Personality covers visual presentation most, with content, colors and images reflecting you and your unique ideas that will help "speak" to your audience.
> Organization of a site is a crucial part that needs to be clear in categories, navigation, content, etc for you audience to make sense of each category and be able to understand what the main theme or message is.
> It's good to remember that, as Wroblewski states, "the web lacks any real 'physical space'," meaning that you need to provide clues for a user to understand where they are in your site. If you don't have navigation elements on all of your sites pages, then your audience will most likey get lost.
> It's important to keep in mind that less is more. This is great to remember with web site building becuase the more cluttered you make your site with navigation, images, content, ads, etc. the more it will take away from your main point and distract/make things complicated for the user.
> Personality is a key contributor when building a site. Personality determines the kind of audience that will visit your site. Personality covers visual presentation most, with content, colors and images reflecting you and your unique ideas that will help "speak" to your audience.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Campus Ministry Mission Statement
The objective for the QU Branches Catholic Campus Ministry web site is to provide a well structured page that students, parents and alumni can visit and enjoy. The site will be visually appealing and oriented for its audience, with the main content organized and easily accessible. The main information that will be provided are updated events, photos, and weekly schedules. This site will meet all of Fr. John’s interests and needs as well as helping the site become more popular and within reach for visitors from outside of the school.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Site-Seeing: Chapter 1
> It is very important to know what you want to say before saying it and the same goes for web sites. Web pages can't rely on words only, there needs to be content gathered (images and text), interaction and organization that a web designer must think of before creating a site.
> For a web site to be understood effeciently by a user, it must have a clear and organized message that the audience will not be confused by.
> The most important part about creating a web site is knowing your client well. A designer needs to ask questions and understand what the business wants in order to achieve a successful site that you both can experience and enjoy.
> I found it interesting that many web sites use scenarios to understand their audience. It's extremely helpful to have a variety of scenarios so that a web designer meets all of the user's needs and interests.
> When it comes down to it, a successful web site is one that communicates key ideas that the audience is looking for.
> For a web site to be understood effeciently by a user, it must have a clear and organized message that the audience will not be confused by.
> The most important part about creating a web site is knowing your client well. A designer needs to ask questions and understand what the business wants in order to achieve a successful site that you both can experience and enjoy.
> I found it interesting that many web sites use scenarios to understand their audience. It's extremely helpful to have a variety of scenarios so that a web designer meets all of the user's needs and interests.
> When it comes down to it, a successful web site is one that communicates key ideas that the audience is looking for.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Site-Seeing: Introduction
>Every technology goes through an evolutionary or growing process and the World Wide Web is just in its beginning stages at barely ten years old.
>Like Wroblewski has stated, it has a very long way to go before maturity. It’s easy to think back to when there was no web; it was a simple era and now with it, it has become complex and significant, making our lives much easier and faster.
>There was a simple era with the World Wide Web when it was first developed by CERN. Simple Web sites included basic table layouts with images and text.
>However more images were being used and were in more demand than just text, resulting in a slow download process with poor ability to be viewed. Since the audience wouldn’t want to sit and wait.
>It’s not until people realized that in order for the Web to cohesively be understood it needs to first learn how to communicate effectively.
>Communication is key when building a Web site. The site needs to communicate to its viewer a well rounded page that includes accessibility and good design
>An accessible page makes for a faster and easier time for the audience. Successful Web sites include visual, structural and organizational content.
>A Web site needs to have meaning and understanding from the audience to be considered an overall good site.
>It also needs to deliver behavioral and emotional concepts for it to communicate with the viewer what it specifically is presenting.
>I liked when Wroblewski states that the “presentation (of a site) has a lot of responsibilities”. Presentation is everything when it comes to Web pages. If the information is not presented in a structured, visually appealing fashion, than that site is just not going to be viewed as much. It’s as simple as that.
>Like Wroblewski has stated, it has a very long way to go before maturity. It’s easy to think back to when there was no web; it was a simple era and now with it, it has become complex and significant, making our lives much easier and faster.
>There was a simple era with the World Wide Web when it was first developed by CERN. Simple Web sites included basic table layouts with images and text.
>However more images were being used and were in more demand than just text, resulting in a slow download process with poor ability to be viewed. Since the audience wouldn’t want to sit and wait.
>It’s not until people realized that in order for the Web to cohesively be understood it needs to first learn how to communicate effectively.
>Communication is key when building a Web site. The site needs to communicate to its viewer a well rounded page that includes accessibility and good design
>An accessible page makes for a faster and easier time for the audience. Successful Web sites include visual, structural and organizational content.
>A Web site needs to have meaning and understanding from the audience to be considered an overall good site.
>It also needs to deliver behavioral and emotional concepts for it to communicate with the viewer what it specifically is presenting.
>I liked when Wroblewski states that the “presentation (of a site) has a lot of responsibilities”. Presentation is everything when it comes to Web pages. If the information is not presented in a structured, visually appealing fashion, than that site is just not going to be viewed as much. It’s as simple as that.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Preface
1. Optimum web designs are organized, techinal and visually appealing.
2. When looking at a website, you go through a range of different emotions based on what the web page provides.
3. Wroblewski discusses the many solutions that are decided when making a superior site and how we will use these considerations to learn the language of the web.
4. What you are looking at on a webpage is also communicating to you the specific site, and when the site is communicating effectively, it becomes a quick, easy-to-use page.
5. Websites are narratives that have beginnings and endings, and those that tell good stories are the most effective and visually appealing.
2. When looking at a website, you go through a range of different emotions based on what the web page provides.
3. Wroblewski discusses the many solutions that are decided when making a superior site and how we will use these considerations to learn the language of the web.
4. What you are looking at on a webpage is also communicating to you the specific site, and when the site is communicating effectively, it becomes a quick, easy-to-use page.
5. Websites are narratives that have beginnings and endings, and those that tell good stories are the most effective and visually appealing.
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