Saturday, September 27, 2008

CSS - Quiz 2: Name The CSS Properties

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I took the "Name the CSS Properties" Quiz and named 118 CSS Elements in 7 minutes!

HTML Quiz 1 - Name the Elements

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I took the "Name the Elements" Quiz and named 90 HTML Elements in 5 minutes!

Friday, September 19, 2008

Web Design thoughts

The first thing that stands out the most, from what I have learned, is that usability is crucial. It's all about the organization and the users experience. If I can remember my primary goals and audience and map throughout the design process than I can keep it consistent. I can maintain why I started designing the site in the first place. Also it's better to keep the website simple and easier to use than make it complicated or busy. I liked the day in class where Mr. Stein gave us a task on a website to follow. We had classmates monitor how many times we had to use the back arrow, clicks, if we got frustrated, and if we were able to complete the task. My task was to go to Targets website and find a certain brand blender using a $50 gift card and be able to check out. It was easy to find the blender under $50. But when I went to check out I had to register and give Target a bunch of personal information that I really didn't want to give them. That is were I got frustrated with the site.
I need to remember those specific times when I get frustrated looking at others websites. I don't want to make the same mistakes. I don't want my users to get frustrated with my site. I need to sympathize with them. I need to remember that they came to my site with a specific reason and my job is to make that a nice experience as I can so that they will want to come back to my site later.