...Unit 9 Assignment IT177-02 Website Design Unit 9 Assignment The entire concept behind website design is to be user-friendly. All content needs to be driven by the end user’s needs. Websites are used to relay information and entertain. A difficult to use or understand website will not garner any users, thus wasting time and effort. A website must be designed with all people in mind, from the disabled to the young. The average internet user has a very short attention span and if a website isn’t immediately engaging, the user will move on. There are also language barriers that prevent websites from being useful. Websites are created in every country, in every language, in every dialect of language. The content needs to be translated for the information to be universal. There are many tools and websites that translate information to be understandable to every internet user on the planet. Google Translate. Initial problems, with my last name being Bell, translation did not realize it was a surname, and translated it. I initially translated my page into German, where it translated it to Glocke. There are phrases that it also didn’t pick up and translate at all. Management Accounting and Bachelor of Science were not translated and left in English. However, when I used the site www.online-translator.com to translate my page to German, it realized that Bell was a surname and did not translate, and it also translated Management Accounting and Bachelor of Science properly into...
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...Website Planning Worksheet n o This worksheet can help you to lay a solid foundation for your web sit e. It will help define your goals along with setting a o o r t p r guidelines to make sure your website is complete and useful for your visitors. If you don't know an answer or feel like it e k m s r o w l a t e doesn't apply to you, then simply leave it blank. If you have any quest ions; please call and I'll be happy to help you Name Address r City State Zip Code Business Phone n Home Phone Cell Phone Description of your business c o s (One Paragraph) e [Type a quote from the document o or the summa ary of an inte eresting point. You can t position t the text box a anywhere in the document t t. Use the Dra awing Tools t tab to change the e formattin ng of the pull quote text bo ox.] Description of services c e , (Separated by commas) Example: Pizza, Restaurant, Take Out, Salads, Italian, Entrees, Pasta, a m p s e [Type a quote from the u e document o or the summa ary of an interesting point. You can t anywhere in the document t. Use the Dra awing Tools tab to change e position the text box a the forma atting of the p pull quote tex xt box.] 1 What is your "Motto· or ·Slogan"? Do you want people to: ☐ Learn more about your business or organization? ☐ Hire you to perform a service? ☐ Buy products from you...
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...made regarding the project to be undertaken? Who are the main people or departments that need to be involved in this project? What are the risks involved? Why would your project be considered a project? Website In this paper I am going to describe a work-related situation that I feel could be improved. I will identify the needs of the situation. What is the project objective? What assumptions, if any, should be made regarding the project to be undertaken? Who are the main people or departments that need to be involved in this project? I will also describe the risks involved. I will also tell you why my project would be considered a project? I want to create a high-tech Web site for my small business but have no experience in programming or graphic creation. The first thing I am going to do is start the initiating process. The first step in the initiating process is to identify the project purpose. The purpose of creating a web site is to increase our potential market. With a web site we can advertise our product to a wider market. The reason I want my company to have a web page would be so we get more business in the future. There are lots of things to consider when making a website. The first one would be who am I going to have make the website. I am going to recruit myself and one of my other team mates that I work with. I...
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...Evaluating Websites More and more people are using the internet every day. It is important to know whether a website is credible or not. There are many websites out there that give false information or they give information trying to sell a product or they want you to believe a certain way, so the information is one-sided. Anyone can set up a web page, so how do you know if what you are reading is credible or not? You ask yourself some questions about the webpage. You want to ask questions about five different things; accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage. I decided to research the United States Health and Human Services website. This website is informational website designed to present facts, letting the public know about what services are offered and how to take advantage of them. With an informational website, the URL Address frequently ends in .edu or .gov, as many of these pages are sponsored by educational institutions or government agencies. Examples of these are: dictionaries, thesauri, directories, transportation schedules, calendars of events, statistical data, and other factual information such as reports, presentations of research, or information about a topic (Alexander, Tate, 1999). I asked myself the following questions about accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage.. . Accuracy – how accurate is the information on the page? Ask yourself the following questions: Can you verity the information (sources), is...
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...Evaluation of www.DHMO.org The website www.dhmo.org is very deceptive and biased in the information it provides. Using the five steps listed on the University of Berkeley website to evaluate this site, I will show that this site is trying to deceive people of the effects of Dihydrogen Monoxide (Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask, 2012). It is imperative in today’s age of technology that we do or due diligence and apply effective critical thing skills to verify our internet sources. The first thing I did was check the website’s URL. The site gives the appearance as being a nonprofit organization. The site is listed as Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. The page is not a personal page, and the name of the site correlates to the URL. So far the site would look legitimate to the average person. After taking a quick look around the page there is no background information about the organization. The only things we can learn from the site are that it is based in Newark, Delaware and is operated by Tom Way. There are no other credentials for the organization or the owner of the site. One would assume that this site is backed by the U.S. Environmental Assessment Center due to their logo being present near the top of the page. Although, after clicking the link it only redirects you to another DHMO page. Lastly, there is no way to contact the owner of the website. Next I looked for quality information. The links provided on the page give no...
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...section of this assignment requires you to write recommendations to improve the design of a real website. Description of the assessment Please visit the following URLs and select an example of bad design and a good design (follow the link to get to the actual badly designed website). http://www.jimwestergren.com/worst-web-design-ever/ http://www.websitesthatsuck.com/ You need to select at least 3 criteria listed below to assess your website against: * Navigation * Visual effects (colour scheme, typography, page layout) * Website layout / access to different web pages on the website * Pages download speed * Site consistency * Security * Content and professionalism You need to describe the best development practices in the chosen criteria and also explain how the chosen website violates these practices. Insert relevant screenshots to illustrate your point. Finally, recommend improvements based on your observation. You may sketch the suggested modifications in addition to verbal description. This task requires an extensive research on web design beyond lectures in this unit. List and cite references which you use to discover good web design practices. You should not use statement like “I did not like…” as you are not an expert on web design. Your statements should be similar to the following: “The accepted practice is to … This website violates this practice because …” Please write an academic report of approximately 1000...
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...Website Analysis Paper Website Analysis Paper I am going to evaluate the page layout, navigation, and performance based on my knowledge of www.worlds-worst-website.com, website that from my knowledge was designed to be a bad designed website. However I for this paper I will treat it as if it was a website to give facts or information about things on the internet or world. I well discuss what the website has as content, who was this content made for, the way it navigates, and how it can be improved. This website is really bad so my goal is to try to come up for a way this website is bearable. There are meaning things wrong with this website that make it bad. What is on www.worlds-worst-website.com? Well there are many links on this site that take you to different websites. Two of the links send you to same website just to two different pages of that site. One like seems to take you to a game that has something to do with Obama. One is just a video of cats. Then there are links on different dinosaurs and one link about bicycles. There is also a link that makes you take a quiz of a show. This sites content is well everywhere. There is no actual main content on this site. There is just random links to different sites and it makes the site more like a share link site if anything. I am also going to say that the websites it sends you to are better than this site; however I still do not think they are better or really look that impressive. The look really old and need to...
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...Valley Community College Website Evaluation Learning Team A Dianna Medina, Kevin Russell WEB/236 Benjamin Perez Northwest Valley Community College Website The Northwest Valley Community College (NVCC) website for the Kelsey Campus is a website designed to provide information for both new and existing students. New students, or inquiring individuals, can go to the website and learn about the various aspects of the college. The website provides history about the college and information regarding various programs the college offers. The website also provides content on student services and the college’s bookstore. Website Evaluation The current NVCC website has much to offer for students. However, there many improvements that could be made to enhance the website. Through the use of webpage templates that standardize layout, color, font size, and navigation, the website can be drastically improved to increase student interaction. The enhancements will not only improve the website’s ability to provide information to existing students, but also represent the college in a manner that attracts new students as well. Strengths Home Page. The home is the first page a viewer sees and can leave a good or bad impression. The community college has several strong points on the home page. The logo is a good picture of the school and there are other distractions on the home page. Distractions are bad to the school’s image and can lose the purpose of the website. The navigation bar...
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...Introduction This website plan is a blueprint for the website which includes background, goals, analysis of competitor websites and some other important issues in creating a website. The website is a cake shop called icake, the cake shop which offers purchase online, new advance preview, Member Services, Design cake yourself. Background to the business and business goals * Founded in 2005，our business is about innovating and creating distinctive flavors to satisfy your palate. * In recent years, we have opened several new stores, 20 varieties of cakes available to meet the needs of different consumer groups * Organizes promotional activities, participate in community public service, advertising on popular websites, to gain public recognition, and increase awareness to achieve the maximum business profit Goals of the website, how these fit into goals of the business The web is not just a marketing tool - it's a business tool as well. While it is perfectly okay to have an Internet billboard that simply contains contact information. Even the smallest local business can utilize the power of the Internet to be more efficient and to build revenue. * Build trust with prospects * Grow the client base * Strengthen customer loyalty * Get the jump on competitors * Develop and stay "Top of Mind" * Extend your reach * Diversify: add new streams of income * Through the purchase online, We will delivered fresh...
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...Evaluating Website Credibility Introduction The internet is the primary source individuals use when researching information including, but not limited to, medical information. The goal is to review the credibility of a website using five key criteria which are accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage (Colorado Community Colleges Online Library, 2015). For the purpose of the assignment, the website being evaluated by these five criteria is www.midwife.org which was found using the search engine Google that can be located by using the domain google.com. I chose this website because it provides accurate and up to date information in regards to the ever growing and evolving practice of midwifery both in the United States as well as other developed and underdeveloped countries. The full name of the website is the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the URL to locate this site is http://www.midwife.org/. The purpose of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, also known as the ACNM, is to “establish midwifery as the standard of care for women and to lead the profession through education, clinical practice, research, and advocacy.” (American College of Nurse-Midwives, 2015). Evaluation of Website In regards to the five criteria used to evaluate the credibility of websites, the ACNM meets all five of the criteria set forth. “The ACNM gets its national work done through the collaborative effort of its office staff and a vast network of volunteer representatives...
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...piece, they go into details of each aspect of this motherboard, from new features that was not available in previous Rampage motherboard models, to over clocking options, and even enhance their review with videos, screen shots, and bench testing results to verify motherboards' specs and capabilities. For the computer enthusiast, this website with an easy to navigate layout, and attractive format, brings all the new hardware to one place, and provides a tremendous amount of information regarding computer hardware. Additionally, the site has several tools that gives its readers the opportunity to discuss, ask questions, and expand on hardware uses through comments, forum, frequently asked questions and other threads in the Community section. Overclock3D was initially dependant on users input through the forum platform. Their enthusiasm however turned into a full scale professional publication, the website became a registered company in the UK and expanded its operations into other websites as well. Reviews done to hardware such as the Rampage V are now handled by professionals like Tom Logan their Director and Chief Editor. While the website is linked to another where a lot of the reviewed hardware can be purchased, their reviews remain one the most objective, and most thorough of any site on the web. References: 1. Logan, Tom. (2010, January 3). About us. Retrieved from http://www.overclock3d.net/about 2. Logan, Tom. (2014, August 29). ASUS X99 ROG Rampage...
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...Errors on the website Apartments tab * In the subject body there is a typing mistake (Password for the Internet). * Under floor (Space). * In the footer Apartments spelling was given wrong. Facilities around tab: Not working. Reservation Tab: Availability (Spelling). Privacy policy: Not working. Terms of Service: Check out time needs to be changed. Copyright 2009 should be changed to copyright 2011. Findings from other websites * Phone numbers and E-mail address is given on the home page towards the right hand corner. * A clear map route is given in the contact us page. * Many websites have an online chat feature enabled; this will allow the customer to chat with a representative of the hotel before booking. * Many have a dedicated tab called Blog where they published articles about the surroundings, this might help in attracting the visitors as we are close to many visitor attraction spots. * Facebook and Twitter pages are linked to the site. * Picking up guests from the Airports with reasonable charges. * There should a new tab called about us; this will give the information about the Hotel like when we started and what we are. This will give us an opportunity to boost about out brand and services. * One minute videos of both empty rooms as well as while serving customers. Ideas * Collecting E-mail address of the customers and sending those surveys to rate our performance, this will make the customer think that we...
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...Website Migration Project Strayer University CIS 210 Systems Analysis and Development 6/16/2013 Executive Overview The Tony’s Chips web site is to be moved from and external hosting solution to an internal solution. In addition, the site will be redesigned to enable customers to place orders. These are two separate work tasks that should be treated separately and performed by different team members. There are many options for hosting the web site internally, including software choices to hardware architecture. This document will review the tasks that need to be performed, document the process of performing those tasks, and justify the software and hardware choices. Hosting Solutions There are a couple different alternative to how this web site is hosted. The company could host the web site with an external service that maintains their own servers and services. This method is commonly used by start-up businesses and web sites that do not require a huge amount of customization, monitoring, bandwidth, and storage. When a company wishes to have more control over their site and how it is hosted, they can chose to use a server service. With this kind of service, a company that owns a large server farm leases out one or more servers to the company. This allows the company to dedicated servers which they have control over without the need to physically store the server or perform the regular maintenance. Web sites that involve database-driven web applications can eventually require...
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...Analysis of http://www.buy.com Abstract Commercial and personal web Web sites need to contain certain elements that will draw in users and/or customers. Below is a list of pros and cons, along with an analyzed list of aspects that the group felt were important to have on a wWeb site. The commercial Wweb site that was chosen was http://www.buy.com. Analyzed list for Buy.com A commercial web Web site should have functions and elements that draw the users and customers back for more viewing and utilization. To have this happen, certain aspects should be incorporated onto the Wweb site. The following are fundamentals that should be included: ❑ Functionality ❑ Sensible Navigation ❑ Working Navigation (No dead links, etc.) ❑ Consistent Design ❑ Credible and original content ❑ Accessibility and easy to find wanted items ❑ Meet the needs of the targeted visitors ❑ Allows customizing to user preferences ❑ Must meet the needs and objectives of the company (In this case http://www.buy.com) ❑ Work effectively ❑ Interactive ❑ Professional ❑ Well edited ❑ Quick downloading (If it takes too long the visitor will leave and not return) ❑ Provides search tools within the web Web site ❑ Site security ❑ Should have low contrast backgrounds ❑ Should provide FAQ page ❑ Toolbar should be discreet, elegant and efficient Standard page elements: * Page title in browser title bar ...
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