Website Organization

1. What is the fundamental principle for organizing website design?
   - Meeting your users needs
2. List the 5 basic steps of organizing information.
   - Divide into logical units.
   - Heierarchy of importance among units.
   - Use heierarchy to structure units.
   - Site closely follows information.
   - Analyze success.
3. Briefly describe the three essential structures for organizing websites.
   - You need to link everything to everything, have a decent design, and ly stuff out well.
4. What is the risk of “eye candy”?
   - If its too fllashy, it can distract the user, and sometimes make it harder to find what they want.
5. How might programmers utilize site diagrams as they move a new website project from planning to production?
   - They can have their website layed out before having to get to the programming. This helps alot, so you can just do instead of think and do.
6. How does the concept “above the fold” impact page design decisions?
   - It can offer users a visual picture of what is going on in the article.

W3C Standards

If the W3C did not develop standards for the internet, there would be a huge barrier that many people couldnt pass.

For example, If we didnt have the small variation of languages that we do now, and had a bunch of different languages coded in different ways, not everyone would be able to use the internet. Its make the internet almost as useful as the Macintosh Terminal on Windows Vista.

Without the standards that were set in place for us, we would not have the internet that we do today.

Color Scheme

This is the color scheme I came up with for my page.

#5C73B8 – Light pastel blue

#405080 – Dark pastel Blue

#CFD4E6 – Pastel gray

#3054BF – Pastel Blue

#E6B873 – Pastel Brown

#806640 – Pastel Dark Brown

#E6DCCF – Pastel Gray

#BF8630 – Pastel Orange/Brown

Color theory questions.

1. When eight bits of memory are dedicated to each pixel, how many potential colors could be displayed on each pixel?
   - 256
2. What are the three basic colors that monitors transmit?
   - Red Green Blue
3. How many different colors are there in the browser-safe palette?
   - 216
4. Describe the “compromise” or accomodation the Web Style Guide recommends for people with 256 color displays.
   - Use netscape, or get a computer with millions of colors.
5. Are the majority of people we refer to as color blind unable to see any color at all? Explain.
   - Most only cannot see one color.
6. According to the WebAIM site, what is the key concern when using colors to convey important information?
   -If you are making a colored map with colored roads and icons (color cosded) it is hard for them.

Proximity

Websites with proximity are easier for readers to read and look at. It is easy to navigate, because things are spaced apart.

www.altavista.com is and example.

Altavista spaces its links apaart, so the site is easy to navigate.

Allignment

Allignment is crucial in a website because it puts everything in it’s place. If the website isnt alligned, it looks sloppy and gross.

For example, www.google.com

Google centers their website and makes it look good.

Repitition

Repitition describes the repeating of colors, and design.

For example The west hills website

The west hills site has repeating colors and design elements that give it a good look.

Contrast

Websites with good contrast have a perfect mixture of images, colors, and shapes. These websites will always look nice and will be put together well.

For example, www.caliscape.com

This site has great colors and design that contrast perfectly with eeachother.

What the experts say…

The websites given were interesting. I think the biggest eye opener on what not to do was the www.webpagesthatsuck.com.

The websites listed were the perfect example of WHAT NOT to do.

I agree, that a website should have a sleek, put together look. If people cant get around your site, then there is no point in viewing the page.

Overall, you need a website thats good on the eyes, and that is easy to navigate. That is what I agree on with the experts.

West Hills Website Blog

The west hills page has a great feel and layout. There is not much that can be done to perfect it using design.

However, the content fetaured on the site does not appeal to students. This is my concern. The student visitors would increase with just a few changes.

Personally, I only check the website for the schedule. All the other stuff on the website seems to be geared towards parents and staff.

I have a few suggestions that in my opinion, would make the site more student friendly.

• Put more emphasis on the teacher and grade checking pages. We are often looking for these.
• Online counselor appointment scheduling would help alot.
• Maybe a forum geared towards each specific class.

Little things like this would be beneficial to the website as a whole. It would not only increase the student visitors, but would also benefit us during school hours.