DesignQuest
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Table of Contents:

Intro

The Task

The Process

Resources

Evaluation

Conclusion

 

Resources: Find resources below that will help you answer your Guide Sheet questions.

The background, font and images teams visit several student Webfolios. The navigation team will review some professionally developed Web sites to analyze how they look and how easy it is for you to move around in them. Check out the following information on Background, Font and Images which all deal with aesthetics or how things look. They are followed by information on Navigation to help you learn more about the importance of Web sites being functional (i.e., easy to navigate within).

 

Background

Background Color= what the whole page color is. It is white for this page but gray/blue for this box.

Background Theme= FrontPage comes with several themes to choose from. The themes are made up of graphics. Click the following for examples>

Artsy     Tidepool     Zero

Font

Font Type= the shape of the font (e.g., comic, georgia)

Font Size           Font color        

Font Style= bold, Italic, or underlined

Images

Clipart= small, cartoon images, 
e.g.,


Animated GIFS= small images that have movement, 
e.g.,


Images= these are pictures you take with a digital camera, or scan into the computer or save from the Internet,

e.g.,

Navigation

Web sites are mechanical and functional. They have buttons and hyperlinks that you click to bring Web pages on to your screen. They allow you to navigate through the Web site. It is much like a Table of Contents in a book. You want to go to Chapter 3 and the Table of Contents points you to the exact page for the start of Chapter 3. 

Moving around in a well-designed Web site should be effortless and the hyperlinks should function as you expect them to. Well designed Web sites have individual pages. 

 

You should now have enough information to visit some student and professional Web sites to answer the questions on your Guide Sheets. 

Student Electronic Portfolios
(Webfolios)

Click the links below which will take you to the entrance Web pages for two high schools in the USA. You will see the individual names of students hyperlinked to their electronic portfolios. 

Remember you are a designer analyzing and critiquing these sites by answering the questions in your Guide Sheet. Also remember that what is "cool" to a 5th grader might not be so cool for an adult designer!

Student Electronic Porfolios I

Student Electronic Portfolios II

 

Professionally Developed Web Sites

The navigation team is to go through the follow sites that have very good navigation systems. Review the sites to answer your Guide Sheet questions.

UPS 5th Grader Webfolio (semi-pro!)

Bloomberg News

CNN Online

Apple Computers

 

Time to move on to Evaluation and put all of your results together for your cousin.

 

Intro > The Task > The Process > Resources > Evaluation > Conclusion


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