Blog Assignment #3

Ever since the internet, and in different forms in the past, people have generally been timid about releasing their information to a 3rd party source. In the generation of internet, accessing a websites primary content generally requires membership, which in-turn means that one will be required to sign up for that site. Upon signing up for a website, one will generally have to release info about them, depending on the site, some of this information may be taken as sensitive to release.

I personally am willing to release my full name, zip-code, e-mail, and date of birth to lagitiment website, like myspace, if it is required to sign up and if they do not release my information. When it comes to publicly accessible information, such as my actual myspace page, i will only tell my first name and say i live in San Diego. I never release detailed information about me that can be accessed by random people. If submitting highly sensitive information on the internet, such as credit card numbers, i will always look for the encrypted lock that appears on websites that transmit sensitive information.

Blog Assignment #2

DZ Akins

dzakinsdeli.com/

DZ Akins is a delicatessen located just off the I-8, near the 70th street trolley station. It features over 130 different sandwiches, which are renowned for being quite large.

Their website features a large horizontal mosaic that is styled in Art Deco, a popular form of art in the 1920s. To the left of the mosaic are large links in white letter that include; about us, menu, catering, directions, reviews, and at the bottom, contact us.

To improve their site, they should change the design of the site pages that proceed after clicking on the links that are displayed on the main page. These pages are centered words that vertically descend, which is not as visually appealing as the first part of the site.

Cry Wolf

www.crywolf.com/

Cry wolf is a local San Diego apple retailer and authorized product support center. The store is located in Claremont Mesa near the 52 and I-805.

The site has a somewhat sense of good organization but seems just a little two sporadic. The should try to be similar to the apple official website, which is very minimalistic appearing and has a nice clean lines appearance, and drop their color scheme. Another issue of the site is they do not yet have an online store feature, which is a must for any online tech website. Another problem with the site is that it is not up-to-date, still displaying a holiday gift guide. If a website is not up-to-date, it generally not be helpful when trying to get info on the latest products.

Blog Assignment #1

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/

Wild Nature Images is a website that sells stock photos of pictures from all over the country. Te website is organized simply, clicking on image brings you to a new page that features it in a larger size, which features copyright logos on the image.

http://hubblesite.org/

The hubble space galley displays images taken from the hubble space satellite. The images are arranged as small clickable thumbnails hat take you to the full size image upon clicking them.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

The images in this galley are accessed via clicking on a bitmapped image that has links placed on various spots of a single image.

Bad Tags (HTML Intermediate Tutorial)

Some tags have become “bad tags” because they are easily mistaken for other things. Most tags can be used in CSS which will make it more easy to make Some example would be u, this code underlines things which can be easily mistaken for a link. Another bad tag would have to be big, this tag makes text larger but using h1, h2, h3, etc. or the font attribute would be more plausible.

CRAP – 3 Principles

netflix.com

1. netflix.com uses proximity by placing login links at the top right.
2. It also uses repetition with the fonts used in the main text and the menu font.
3.In addition, specific things are aligned in certain areas to make them easier to find.

google.com

1. google uses contrast to distinguish the logo and the search bar.
2. they also use proximity and alignment by placing the search types (web, image, etc.) in the top left corner.

wolfpack.guhsd.net

1.The west hills website uses contrast to distinguish the menus from the main text by using different sized fonts but still use repetition by using the same fonts.
2. In addition, they also use alignment to place all the objects in different areas.

CRAP – Proximity

Proximity is the technique of placing similar things in the same general area. This helps finding things easier.

Wikipedia.com uses proximity by placing all the major languages in one similar section.

CRAP – Alignment

Alignment keeps the page’s appeal and is very important.

yahoo.com aligns the menu on the left and the news section in the middle. This keeps the page from being hard to find things and keep the page’s appealing look.

CRAP – Repetition

Repetition is the use or repeating things in a site to give a feeling of uniformity.

apple.com use repetition in the theme of their site with similar menus and fonts.

CRAP – Contrast

To avoid similarities amongst things.

This blog uses contrast to distinguish the title of the blog.

Lession 1-2-2: Selecting a Color Scheme

If i made a website, i would keep the color of my text black and use a simple font like arial. I would change the size of the text to fit accordingly (headers, sub, etc.).

I would most likely have an edge background with a white center, to make it easy to read.

For the banner i would use a light color but nothing eye catching. I would use cool colors like green, blues, or grays.

I would keep the navigation bellow the header, similar to this blog and on the west hills website.