| The user is the king |
Organized each page in user's points of view.
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| Use common sense |
- Define your user
Prospective user : Instructor&TA,
and ICS415 students
Improvement : Instructor&TA, ICS students,
and Reviewers
- Define your and your user's goals and objectives
Goal : enhance my web programming skill.
Objective : learn each materials given in class and lesson
- Put the links where you'd expect them as viewer
Linked in main page to expect users to
see each assignment
- Think about every page element - word, image, bullet, letter
Checked unlinked picture
Improvement : Checks spells and appearance
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| Keep it simple |
- Take advantage of standards
Used the mono font for the tags
Used the color font for the tags
- Eliminate: (1 )any obvious or unnecessary text, graphics or
other media (2) anything distracting
Took the wallpaper
Took pictures to demonstrate HTML example
- Don't make the user wait
Used anchor to jump each tag from the top on the
page
- Keep it focused
Highlighted the topic and change the color for
the tags
- Who is the target user?
Instructor, TA, and Reviewers
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| Be consistent |
- Do same things in the same way all the time
Adjust the appearance of previous assignment
page to that of improved page
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| Discriminate |
- Do different things differently
Made table and put all the comment into
it to organize each page
- Structure
Used table structure for each page
Improvement : Divides the links on the top into
the 1. and 2.
- Order according to: (1) importance (2) logic
Thought and arranged the order in terms
of what user wants
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| Be precise |
- Rephrase until it's optimal
Tried to read my sentence several times
Improvement:
Takes out <CAPTION> tags since it's not directly related
to multi-column formatting.
Rephrases the "BACK TO TOP"
to "BACK TO MAIN"
- Labels (e.g. buttons, menus) matter
Put the menus of tags on the top of the
page.
Improvement : puts the number to each title.
- Avoid colloquialisms and insider terms (e.g. "stuff",
"wysiwyg")
Improvement : Tried to avoid colloquialisms
as much as I could.
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