Dec 6 (Last One!)

I think that the most important thing that I learned in this class is about the different types of writing that is out there being used everyday. Web writing needs to be very simple and concise, and you need to get the point across with little detail. I learned about the different techniques that went into creating a web site to make it very professional and successful. However I think that my favorite and the best thing that I learned was actually how to create a web site.
I mean I always new how but not like this. There are so many things that you have to think about when actually creating it. I am really happy that I took this class because I want to do advertising/marketing when I get older and I am sure that this (websites and presentations) will have big part of my job. I hope that it does because I really enjoy making sites and I will continue to learn more about them. Thank you so much Dr. Karper, I had a lot of fun during this class and learned a lot! Thank you!

Nov 29

I think that one of the most important things on our site is the food link. I think this because a lot of kids/people that come to this school are unfamiliar with the location of places to eat. This is because they are probably from out of town and won’t even know where to look to find a restaurant or place to eat. It is also nice because we indicated the price range and take-out, sit-in, and fine-dinning, a variety of types of food things. I know that I didn’t even know where to look when I wanted to get food from off campus. A lot of students get sick of the food on campus so this will be a very helpful site to help students get familiar with the area and accessibility to food.

I Think that the policies for dummies is another really good link on our site. A lot of students just don’t want to take the time to read through the policies and procedures of Niagara University, therefore they really don’t know the real rules and what to expect if they ever got into trouble. Since we (students) created this site, we wrote the policies in none technical terms so that students hopefully will understand. We also tried to add some humor in it.

I think that the user tests that we performed with other people really helped us create an exceptional site. Because coming from the creators, it was hard to realize what was wrong and hard to navigate through. As a result I think that we have a very professional site.

Nov 22

No, I personally think that the medias are all different. They all have their own techniques for accommodating to their readers of that media. It makes sense that the news style will stay the same because people (humans) are very resistant to change. The style of newspaper writing has been the same for years, and that is what people are used to. If they go changing the style, it is possible that they might loose readers interests in reading that media. I think this because people just don't have time (unfortunately) to adjust to new things, even if it is something so simple, even to benefit them. I think its just today's society. The internet has come along way with media writing, to make things easier for readers and to accommodate to their reading habits. There are different techniques for all different medias, and I personally think that they will remain the same. If they change they will change ever so slightly so that they will not mess with the readers. Also if you start changing things around on people they might consider that "bad writing". Not because it really is bad writing but just because they aren't used to it, and are resilient to change. I personally like reading things online, rather than print. I think that I am more amused by online things. Ex: the colors, pictures, and everything.

Nov 15

I think that it is important to have good navigation throughout your website. If there isn't good navigation then you may not keep the readers interest and therefore they may not look at your site and leave to go to another one.

Some good strategies for developing an effective navigation our website is that we will have to make everything easy to understand...Not complicated. If things get to complicated then people tend to loose interest. Things have to also be short but yet still concise. Lengthy things are of not interested to people when trying to find out general information like they will on our website. Each page will have to look the same, this will create easy navigation and people will not have to search around the site to find where they want to go. We are going to use vertical alignment to set up for our navigation bar.

It is important to have good navigation and understand what it takes to have good navigation for your website. This is because if there is not good navigation then you may loose the readers interest and therefore they may leave your website.

Nov 8

I think that the persona for our website will be people interested in NU, such as...
Perspective Students
Current Students
Parents of perspective and current students
Faculty of NU and of housing
RA's and staff for buildings

Current Students/Staff:
They will want to look at information that is going on around campus impartiality things that have to do with their building. There will be information about food services (such as local restaurants with location and phone numbers), information about campus activities that they can get involved in, as well as general information.

Perspective Students:
This website will provide them information about what is at NU and things that are available to students that attend NU. Things such as campus activities, building activities and organizations/clubs, general information and things that you are able to get involved in.

Parents:
This will be an informative site to make the parents aware of what is going on at their children school. It will show that the school is credible and they should feel safe in sending their students to Niagara University.

Oct. 25

I think that the three most important things that I consider to make a website "good" are the web content, accessablitity, interest.

The content of websites has to be accurate as well as creadable information. If the information is not accurate then your reader looses trust in your content and might not continue to read about infromation on your website. The english should be proper on the website also. The design has to be good, easy to keep the reader focused and able to keep reader. This can be done visually and by the content in the website. The website has to be easy to access and navegate. It needs to be able to be understood by the reader. The reader has to know that when you click on a link it will bring you there, and work.

Oct. 18

Capturing and keeping someone's attention on the internet is very important. If you fail to keep the interest of someone who is reading/looking at your website, then their attention is lost and they might not pay 100 percent attention to your website or they might ignore your site and go to another. They would not give good recommendations to other people about that site. Not keeping the attention of readers who are looking at your site means that the advertising from that company, business or individual person did not do a very good job. As a result the marketing for the website will not be as good.

I will draw attention to my online portfolio because my portfolio will be interesting. It may not draw interest to everyone, but I will make it very colorful and unique in my own way to bring out my creativeness.