Designing Web Sites—Project #1
Using an instruction manual, an advertising flyer of your choice, informational article/book or a detailed freewriting on an organization (it could be your family, a school room, or a club), use a mind map or cluster to arrange the primary information for a web-page organization. Focus on making logical connections and manipulating the reader's "path" through the information.
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Decide on the primary purpose, audience and organization for the web site. |
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Brainstorm on details and information to be included via clustering. Begin with each purpose and branch into there. Under each purpose, describe what the users will expect to find and what is necessary. |
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Using your brainstorming, make a preliminary sketch of the organization for your Web page. Continue using the "clustering" structure as a method of outlining. |
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On separate pieces of paper, outline the contents of each "page" |
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Write (and underline) the transitional words or sentences you will use to link the separate pages. |
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Judge the User-friendliness of your site. It may be that the user will have to navigate past one or two directional screens to find the correct information, but this is preferable to having to scroll through too much useless information. Later screens can contain more information because the user has self selected there. |
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Consult your original source to see if you have been faithful to the author's essay. |
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Revise your major plan, adding screens where you notice that topics are changing, need more information, or have become too unwieldy. |