Week5 I Love Homework

Homework again. woohoo. 

This time, the cher ask us to visit http://thisfashion.com.sg/  answer the questions given.

How do you find this site?

Lamest site ever.

Who do you think this site is creared for?

It is created solely for the customers.

What are the good attributes of the site (in terms of usability, aesthetics issues, etc)?

The site is neat and has very good legibility as the navigation of the site is straight forward and easy to guide people through the site. The font and color were chosen carefully in order to make the overall feel of the site to be easy to read.The site have plenty of information, from exchange policy to FAQ to feedback and  all the outlets the company have located with the full address given. Even small little details like ‘how to apply the Privilege Card’ and ‘where to  get Gift Vouchers’ were given full and clear information. Also, in the ‘Contact Us’ section, almost every method available to contact them were given, with the Working Hours shown. In conclusion, the site have very clear and high quality information given on how to reach them.

What are the bad attributes of the site?

The site have very plain and almost no design at all, it looks boring and dull. This will affect the company tremendously as the first impression they give is a bad one. The site also have no information on the products they sell, as this will result in first-time visitors who went to the site to find nothing about the products even if they are interested in it, thus turning off  a huge amount of potential customers.

Post your comments and thoughts on the blog.

In my opinion, i think that the site represents what the company is strongly, as the internet is a very strong and solid marketing place now so making a good quality site is definitely a must in order for companies to succeed.Design is a very important factor in creating website and one of the key to get traffic, and since it is a fashion franchise company, it is even more of a concern then ever for the company.The site also failed badly, as it didn’t have any information on the products they sell but instead full infomation on contacting them.Hence, the site is only available for customers who know the company and for people who never heard of it, they wouldn’t be able to get even the slightest clue on what its all about as the site didn’t show any information on the products at all.This is like trying to advertise a shop without advertising what the shop sells and it is very stupid indeed.

Therefore, i think that the ‘thisfashion’ site is a bad example on how sites should be created, and it would impact on the performance of the company dramastically and negatively.

Web Design Week 3 – I <3 Homework!!!

Here are the amended pdf files for the week 3 web design hmwk.

http://iamforced2blog.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/amended-site-obj1.pdf

http://iamforced2blog.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/amended-users1.pdf

And also the one that i choose to anaylse is this:  http://www.kckfood.com.sg

QaA for week 2 web design.

1.)What is Browser-Safe Color Palette/ Web-Safe Colors?

Its a set of 216 colors that could be shown without dithering on 256-color displays. 216 was chosen because computer operating systems customarily reserved16-20 colors for their own use  and it was also chosen because it allows exactly six shades each of red, green, and blue. (6 × 6 × 6 = 216).

 

2.)Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?

Yes. Because not everyone have upgraded their computers and some have really ancient computers.

 

3.)What are the common fonts face found on the PC and Mac?

Arial, Lucida, Times New Romain and Georgia.

 

4.)What is page loading time and how does it influence your design?

Page loading time is the time needed to load up your web-page completely, and almost everyone hates to wait, therefore visitors to your site would have a very high probability that they will leave the site even before it finish loading, thus, reducing the amount of potential visitors to your web-page.

 

5.)  Write-up(min 150words)

I have found the article to be quite useful as it was definitely a good post that gives amateurs web designers like myself a great deal of knowledge to start with, such as ‘The Seven Phases of Web Site development’ ,the ‘Web Design Workflow’, Complete Process’ ,’Breakdown of the idea web design process’  and the ‘Web Style Guide Process’ which gives a step-by-step breakdown process on how web design works. As an amateur web designer, it would definitely save me alot of time, as to whenever im not sure on what steps to take next or how to create a quality website with fast efficency almost immediately i can always refer myself to the guide available on the article. It is a must-drop-by site for all amateur web designers who are looking for a proper guide that allows them to start creating a quality website with much more speed and efficency.

Thus, the conclusion is, the site is definitely without a shadow of a doubt a great post with amazing resources on web design!

QnA for Web Design

 Here is my 1st web design class QnA hmwk…

 

1.)Name as many browsers as you can

Here are some of the browsers that are used throughout the years by people in the net all over the world- Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Amaya, Opera, Links, Safari, Konqueror, Omniweb, Galeon, Phoenix, Maxthon,  Epiphany, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, iCab, Camino, Sputnik, Google Chrome, AOL Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Avant.

 

2.)What is browser wars

Browser wars are competitions over the web browser marketplace for web dominance. The term is used for the competition between market-dominating Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer during the 1990s and also the competition from 2003 onwards between the most dominating Internet Explorer and other web  browsers, which include Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.

 

3.)What is IP address?

An IP address is referred to an ‘Internet Protocol’ which is a numerical logical address that is assigned to devices existing in a computer network which utilize the IP for communication between its nodes. IP addresses are stored as binary numbers and are displayed in readable notations and the role of the IP address is to be able to allow users to indicates what we seeks in the network, where it is, and how to get there.

 

4.)What is a URL?

 Uniform Resource Locator(URL), is a type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies internet address (eg. http://iamforced2blog.wordpress.com) which consist of the protocol (http), the domain name (www.iamforced2blog.com), and also the path to an exact file or location that is on the residing server.

 

5.)What is a good website?

A good website is basically a website that meets the needs of the target audience or visitors and also the needs of the site-maker at the same time. A website should  be presented in the most professional way possible to create a good first impression.Which means that the website have to be easy to find/read,fittable in browser windows, unconfusing, conherent, and by having a good design and layout would also help tremendously. A good website should also function properly at all times, such as having fast loading time, ads-free, no broken links and images and other programming errors(especially viruses).Useful and accurate information  such as product/service/contact informations should always be well organized and clear, with good grammar and spelling. A good website might also be one that is updated frequently, althought that is not always the case.

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