Monday, January 28, 2008

Critical Role

Information Architect:

  • To make site maps, content maps, page schematics and text-based outlines explaining what the web site consists of
  • To make the site interactive
  • To make the site user friendly
Graphic Designer:
  • Creating graphics to better show what the website is about
  • Symbols that make page visually pleasing to the user
  • Use colors that look good together like complimentary colors and so on 
Content Manager:
  • Include textual information that fits the style of the page
  • Summarize and put main points in the first paragraph
  •  Write the info so people can scan the info

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Content Management

  1. The most important things is when you include textual information you should rewrite it so it fits the style of your page.                                                                                                           www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html
  2. You also must make sure to summarize and put the main points in the first paragraph.        www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html
  3. Its better to use lists instead of paragraphs so its easer to find the main points, but only when your pose lends itself to such treatment.                                                                                www.darthmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html
  4. You should write so that its easy for to people scan your page.                                                    www.darthmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html
  5. Also its better to break your text down into manageable sized pieces and divide your content into local units.                                                                                                                        www.webstyleguide.com/site/organize.html
  6. One of the most important things is to write many headings, and make sure there useful so people can find the information there looking quickly.               www.usability.gov/design
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Color Schemes

Color schemes are used in every day live to make everything look good together, and to do that you need to know how to use color scheme. The football team that uses complementary colors is the broncos there colors are blue and orange. The color Orange is created by using Red plus Yellow, Green is made by combining yellow and blue, and Purple is made from blue and red. The difference between tint and shade is that tint is a mixture of white and color. while shade is a mixture of color and black. Neutral colors contain equal parts o each of the three primary colors, also black, white, gray, and sometimes brown are considered neutral colors.


Analogous- are the colors on the color wheel that are adjacent to each other. Example: www.nfl.com

Complimentary- complimentary colors consist of colors that are located across from each other on the color wheel.Example: www.blogger.com

Monochromatic- monochromatic is a mixture of use black and white with colors to produce tints and shades.
Example: www.apple.com

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The Perfect Website

1.) The first thing is how long it takes to load and it should be fast
2.) Then if its Easy to navigate through
3.) It also has to have good graphics and animations
4.) It also has to be creative and different from other web sites
5.) The web site also must use good colors that go together
6.) It needs to have easy to read fonts
7.) It shouldn't have to many things going on at once
8.) The information on the web site should be up to date
9.) Its also nice when they have background music
10.) The site should be interactive with the users
11.) Good Vocabulary and need to know how to spell
12.) Keep things from popping up on the users
13.) it needs to have an interesting home page.
14.) Its should have its own personality

"On The Cutting Edge"

1.) The RFP is being requested the CEO of the a large company.
2.) He called the meeting to supply proof that you can handle the project.
3.) The team will make a design grid with charts and tables for the project.
4.) The first step would be to have each member describe what she or he thinks the perfect web site would consist of, Then make a list of the best ideas, and uncover any disagreements you might have.
5.) They aren't good to use because the mean to broad of things he wants more descriptive words.
6.) The CEO wants a descriptive layout of the project.

Daniel Lobban- Content Manager
Chris Smiley- Graphics Designer
Connor Powers- The Information Architect