Today’s goals:
- Discuss take away’s from 1st webpage project
- Complete 2nd quarter/mid-year goal review
- Discuss design intent and website usability
Today’s featured website:
- http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/– What would your life be like if you were born in another country?
1st website project wrap-up:
- Anyone else want to go here?
- Some big take away’s:
- Time management is critical
- Pay attention to the details
- Don’t forget the small things you’ve learned like adding page titles, creating favicons, and using short file names that make sense.
- Your home page makes a big, important impression on your users
- Consistent navigation and design are important so people can figure out what your website is about and how they can get to other pages
- Visual design really matters- page layout, fonts, color coordination- CSS makes this all happen!!
- What else?
- Grades- your updated rubric was emailed to you; see me with questions or if you didn’t get it
2nd quarter/mid-year goal review:
Design intent and website usability
- When you go to a website, what are some things you expect? For example, we usually look for a “home button” somewhere at the top of the page. What else?
- UsabilitySquare.com
- Communication/design interpretation challenge