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Minor Project 9

My content based processes will be that I will collect my content. I will then work with the content with my wireframe designs to help organize my content.


My workflow process.
1- Recieve Project
2- Collect Content
3- Work with Thumb nail sketches
4- Create Wireframe designs
5- Mind Map
6- Writing for the web
7- Prototypes using Photoshop & dummy text
8- Replace with actual content
9- testing
10- Finish site
11- Revisions / final testing

Minor Project 8

Minor Project 7

Minor Project 4

For the Nicaragua Alternative Spring Break website, I will be sharing information which will be direction to Quinnipiac college students and there parents. It will share information such post project, where exactly in Nicaragua the students will be, and why they should get involved. It will include Forms, what to bring, contact information, a map of nicaragua as well as a photo gallery. It will also include the Schwitzer Institute contact information.
When thinking about my design I had many ideas. Some include using the Nicaraguan Flag in the background and sticking to the colors in the flag throughout the text and buttons. The other designs that dont use the flag in the background, will stick to the colors blue, green, yellow, white and black. I want to use pictures, only about 1 or two on the main page of the site. I will decide which design I want to use during or after class this Wednesday. Although for the main links I have an idea of what I would like them to be. I dont want to have too many links, rather just the most important ones such as "About", "Trip Details", "Contacts", and a "photo gallery". Each one of these pages will have a link back to the home page.
For the pages to follow the main page, I would like them to have the same layout and relate to the main page as close as it can, although the main page will have less information and hopefully draw students and parents in and interest them to look into the other pages.

Minor Project 6

1- In 1997, David Siegal invented the HTML as a means for visually laying out pages. This was important, because designers could use designing techniques that were used in print media in the Web. This made it possible to reproduce print medias layout which helped with laying out pages. It opened up that the content and structure of a website should depend on visual layout in the minds of web designers. I think what he did was useful for the web to help organize how a site is going to look visually.

2. Whats wrong with "div" elements is that designers are using them to achieve visual layout like how they use tables. When using a lot of div elements, you are increasing the size of your documents as well as increasing the likelihood of errors forming in your project.

3. Naked Structure is when a site is structured logically before the design is added to it. Its the structure of the site without the design.

4. Meaningful, semantic markup. Meaning can be described as semantic. "In markup, semantics is concerned with the meaning of an element and how that element describes the content it contains."

5. The significance of lists is that you can use them in combinations with other structural elements to create new XHTML compounds. You can use lists in ever instance. There are 3 different kinds of lists.

6. And XHTML compound does not provide meaning and context for a single element, yet it provides meaning and context for a list. For example, two people talking and distinguishing who is saying what rather then looking at the conversation as a whole.

Minor Project 3

1- Transcendent CSS is the new rather then the old ways of inspiration. It is the CSS that is encouraged by yourself to learn more about the design and technical issues with your work. It makes you think on the next level. With Transcendent CSS you don't limit your designs because of technology and the past, yet you continue to work on them and improve them.

2- Two Websites that I find to have inspirational design

A- http://ali-ro.com

B- http://www.anthropologie.com

3- Accessibility "design" is not a feature. We design our content to make it more accessible to everybody. Many designers wrongly misinterpret accessibility as a feature to serve people with disabilities.

4- Two principles of "Trancendent" CSS

1- DVD Player / VCR / Bue Ray

A- A DVD player is important today due to the rapid changes in technology. For example, throughout time, TV's went from being able to show tape in a VCR, to a DVD in a DVD player, and now today they have Blue Ray DVD's to show better quality of the content if you own a Blue Ray TV. Even though there are these upgrades in technology throughout time, all 3 of these technologic products all have the same job and do the same thing, show a piece of content (movie or what not) on the Television screen.

2- Car GPS

A- As GPS for cars have been developed, they have improved greatly. A GPS's job is to give directions to help you get to a destination without looking at a map, printing out directions from map quest and what not. As time has elapsed, they have upgraded GPS's so much that they can now not only show you where you are going and tell you where to turn, but they can tell you the exact street name, how many miles and the amount of time until you get to your destination. I recently got a new portable GPS which tells me everything I just stated. My old one which got stolen from me told me how much longer until I got to my final destination, and how many miles until I had to turn but did not give me the Street names. When I got my new one I was sure to get the newest upgraded one, but when thinking about it now, my old one did the exact same thing, without this upgrade which technically is not needed.

-As this chapter has described, as new technologies are developed we feel obligated to get the new updated technology with the new better designs and amenities, yet an older model still got the job done.

5- I believe that the significance of Nate Koechley's Yahoo Developer Network document called "Graded Browser Support" was that if you use multiple browsing technologies, you will never get the same design effect. Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox each are a like, yet are very different. I personally use Safari for everything because I don't like Firefox while other people do. Each person has a different experience while using different browsers because they are each designed differently and people enjoy certain ones more then others. Some browsers are also more updated then others. You may be able to do something and see something using one browser, but when using another, you may not because it is not updated to the same level as the other.

Minor Project 2

The sample website I am choosing to critique is the first sample. This website has a very good feel to it. All the colors go very well together, the blue and the yellow, which are also colors of the Nicaraguan Flag. Although the colors aren't exact, but are more a different shade of blue and yellow. Its very interactive and looks easy to use. On the first page, the "home" page, is very interactive, especially with the pictures used. I like how when you scroll over a picture, it fades a bit and information comes up onto the picture. You can learn without even clicking a button to another page.

When you do click to another page, the buttons stay in the same place which is good because you don't need to search where they are every time you change pages. Although this website works very well with the colors and design, there is something I would change. On the home page, the bottom has the same buttons (home, what we do, why nicaragua and so on) but designed differently, but the design of the yellow bar across makes the design of the page better because the yellow color is used a lot on the left side and close to the top so I like how its also brought to the bottom. The other pages don't have this bar with the buttons. I guess there not really needed because there on the left hand side as well, but I think for design purposes ever page should have it.

The Photo Gallery uses the same colors and most of the same design but the main menu of buttons is not on the left side and is moved to the bottom. This is okay besides that if you don't scroll down because to see the pictures you don't need to, you don't see the menu of buttons on the bottom.

The type used on this site is very clear and easy to read. Its clear and has a "fun" feeling to it.I also think that the other pages, not the home page, could have more design to it, using the color yellow. There very plain and the information on them do not stand out enough to make me want to read the text.

The Home pages is by far the strongest page of the site. The color and design of it is bright, fun, and personally draws my attention in making me want to look at the other pages and learn about the trip. Unfortunately when I get to the other pages, I'm not as interested anymore.

Overall, the web page does work. The home pages draws you in which is a big thing because if it didn't, I know I wouldn't want to look at the rest of the pages following it. Even though the pages following I don't find as eye catching and interesting, they do still have information, and still gets the main point across. I would have to say this is a successful webpage.