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.