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.

Brainstorming activity

My major is Communications. When I leave NU I want to be social with society and people, I do not want to sit at a desk everyday. I want to look into advertising and marketing. To work in my field I will need to have good skills with the internet, writting, communications and be very knowledgeable in my area of study. I will be interning over the summer at a communications firm in Rochester so that will give me good credibility. My social skills with people help contribute to my field as well as my education. I have not written a resume. I am most proud of the accomplishments that I have gotten. I like the colors blue, orange, and dark green. Sports are some images, paintings and animals represent me.

Online portfolio activity pt. 2

The two websites that I am comparing are www.weatherchannel.com and www.cnn.com. My major is communications, so I chose websites that you can receive informative information that you want to know about.

These websites are different than the other ones that I compared too. These websites are more professional (minus the government website that I used last time) and they are using more professional information.

These websites are similar in that they all provide information however they are for different genre's.

I think that for my field, as well as many others it is important to know what you are talking about and have credible information. You also need to have it presentable to your topic and interesting to the audience.

Online portfolio activity pt.1

These online websites are all informative. They all contain information that someone will want to read about. They are different genres of information, however someone will be interested in the sites.

The debate page that I looked at has a mission statement that is very clear and not hard to find on the first page of the website. The dolphin website does not have a mission statement. The victorias secret is a company has a privacy/security statement. This you have to look for under the tab called privacy/security. They also have a contact number and help page.

All these pages are different. The dolphin website will draw a younger crowd because they can relate to them better. It is very bright and colorful with lots of pictures. The text is not complicated either, it is very simple and easy to understand. Therefore it is a good website for the younger generations, because they can grasp it better. The government debate website is for the older generation that is into politics, or would like to learn more about politics. The writing is very intellectual which might create difficulty with understanding it for younger kids. You also might need to have a little background about what the basic of politics like what it is. The victorias secret website is directed towards women. It uses good marketing techniques because they advertise the sale and new things on the first web page. They advertise things such as if you spend more than $100 you will get free shipping. That causes interest for people to continue to shop.

The audience for the dolphin website is definitely for the younger generation, who wants to learn more about dolphins and has an interest in dolphins. With the websites aim to focus on younger generations, it just changes the layout of the website and the choice of wording for the website. They need it to be easier to understand. The debate website is aimed for adults who want to know or learn about politics, and keep up to date about what is happening with the politics. The victorias secret website is aimed at women who have a credit card basically.

The dolphin and victorias secret website are similar in which they are both colorful and draw attention to the eye. The debate website is very simple and somewhat boring.

I think that there is a wide variety of genre's for web portfolios. They depend on what point the author that is making them wants to get across and to whom they want to get across too.

Oct 4

http://www.southwest.com.au/~kirbyhs/dolphins.html ~ This website is about dolphins
http://www.debates.org/ ~ This website is about the presidential debate
http://www.victoriassecret.com ~ This is the victorias secret website

I searched different websites trying to give me a range of different kinds of web sites. The dolphin website is a personal website about dolphins. The author of this website is trying to connect with dolphins and try to understand them better. They do this by posting several different poems about what they think the dolphins are thinking and represent. They also give a variety of informative information about dolphines. This person is very creative because they set the website up to be very bright, and there are pictures all over the website. The pictures are not in order though, they flow throughout and down the pages.

The next website that I searched was a professional website about the presidential debate. This website is very obvious that it is proffessional. The first clue is because it has a website that ends in org. This site has its mission raight on the first page of the website. It has many proffesisional looking links that it reffurs you too. There is a picture of the two campain men running. The website is very plain, not a variety of colors or anything.

The last website that I looked at was a proffisional shopping website. This website markets to womens clothing. This is a very proffesional website however it is a very colorful website. This is to draw attention too the clothing, wanting to create more sales.