June 12, 2009
on the last day of term
I’m experiencing burn-out D: I have 2 deadlines at 5 pm.
5% done on web design
80% done on animation
>_> Melissa is riiiight. Web design sucks cause it has 0% relation to ALL our other modules. Plus you should never give an animation class a web design timeslot like MONDAY 8 AM.
ugh. chiong.
May 22, 2009
week5
http://www.thisfashion.com.sg/
How do you find this site? (in 3 words)
Very Badly Done.
Who do you think the site is created for?
Customers who know what This Fashion is and what it sells.
What are the good attributes of the site (in terms of usability, aesthetic issues, etc)?
The site is functional, and the information that visitors come looking for is available on the site, and is not too hard to find.
What are the bad attributes of the site?
The information is no doubt there, but it is visually, it is extremely unappealing.
Here’s a list of all the bad attributes I found:
- Visitors who have not heard of This Fashion before would not know what they sell at a glance. This is due to the lack of information on the index page.
- The layout of the site is inconsistant:
- Nearly zero design principles was applied to the layout.
- Colour scheme is bad. Pale orange, pink, a sickly kind of green, a bit of navy blue.
- Having light grey as a font colour against a pale orange background is a very bad idea.
- Emphasis on text is often wrong and irrelevant:
The variation on the phone number just makes no sense.
- Looking at the coding, I can tell that whoever coded for this site doesn’t know how to save space by linking to an external stylesheet.
- Found a bad header:
- This probably means that the site was last updated in 2006:
May 8, 2009
www.kckfood.com.sg
http://kedaphy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/finally1.pdf
http://kedaphy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/finaly2.pdf
week 3 homework
http://www.kckfood.com.sg/Index.htm
Design is simple and appealing. Not over-crowded with information.
One can find what they’re looking for quickly. the little menu icons at the bottom help people navigate through the site easily, because it categorises appropriately.
where applicable, the ordering menu uses the same format, which is easy to read through and select items of your choice.
Site looks the same in all major browsers
Loads quickly!
May 1, 2009
week 2 questions
•What is Browser-Safe Color Palette / Web-Safe Colors?
a color palette that consists of 216 colours (instead of 256). 216 instead of 256 because only 216 will display exactly the same on all computers
•Is it still relevant in today??s context? Why?
because there are people still using old computers, which are limited to 256 colour displays
•What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?
Arial
Arial Black
Palatino
Comic Sans MS
Georgia
Times New Roman
Verdana
Impact
Symbol
Webdings
Gill Sans
•What is page loading time and how it influence your
design?
Page loading time is the amount of time taken to load a page. One reason a page usually takes longer is due to its need to refer to external objects, because time is needed for separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets.
By having a huge page loading time, people will not even want to look at your design/cannot look at it. As such, your desing becomes completely useless.
•http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/webdesign-
and-worflow-process-comparison/
Read about Web Design Process article above and
write what you think about it (at least 150 words)
I realise that the essential and most basic steps are usually always in the list. However, they may or may not be in the same order.
Comparison:
Instructional Design Process
Analyze
Design
Develop
Implement
Evaluate
Breakdown of the ideal web design process
1. Know what you’re doing
2. Know what the site needs to do
3. Know what the site’s visitors want
4. Get a good picture of the personality and style of the web site
5. Sketch out highly successful scenarios
6. Organise views into a site map
7. Sketch the essential features & look
8. Map your visitors’ attention
9. Arrange the visual elements to work together
At a glance, the steps look very different. But “analyzing” really is exactly the same as step 1 – 3 of the “Breakdown of the ideal web design process”. The first steps of “design” is to do sketches according to the style and personality of the web site, which is step 4 – 5. Similarly, “developing” is the same as steps 6 – 9, which is optimising the concept idea into something that is visually pleasing. “Implementing” is already suggested by the hands-on instructions in the second list of the web design process. I believe that while evaluation was not mentioned in the second list, it would be smart to evaluate using the criteria of steps 8 – 9, and thus finding ways to improve your web design.
Similarities like these can be found in all of these lists. Also, I find that they are generally listed in chronological order.
April 25, 2009
Week 1 Questions
1) Name as many browsers as you can.
Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Google chrome, SeaMonkey, Maxthon, Konqueror, Camino, Netscape Navigator
2) What are browser wars?
Competitions between web browsers for user popularity/dominance in the web browser marketplace.
3) What is IP address?
IP stands for Internet Protocol. An IP address is a unique numerical identification assigned to a device that participates in a computer network, used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.
4) What is a URL?
A Uniform Resource Locator is the complete web address to a web page.
5) What is a good website?
One that looks good and functions well.
