Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Design Project - snapfish.com

Visit the snapfish.com website.
Locate the description, what is it?
Locate the keywords, what are they? How many keywords did you find?
Is the description appropriate for the website? Why or why not?
Looking at the number of keywords and words in the description, is it an appropriate number or are there too many or too few? Why?

Use a search engine to look up the words photo quality paper
Click on the first link in the list of results. What is the URL for the website you selected? What is the title of the page?
View the source code for that page.
Locate the description, what is it?
Locate the keywords, what are they? How many keywords did you find?
Is the description appropriate for the website? Why or why not?
Looking at the number of keywords and words in the description, is it an appropriate number or are there too many or too few? Why?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Design Project - Adobe Site of the Day

At the Adobe website, click on the Company link then Customer Showcase to display the Adobe Site of the Day. Click on the link to view the site selected as the site of the day.

Explore the site and answer the following questions about the site:
* What are the titles of the pages that you visit in the site? Write down the title names as you navigate through the site. Do the titles of each page accurately reflect the page content? Expand with details why or why not.
* Is the navigation structure clear?
* How is the navigation structure organized? How do you move around the site from one page to another and get to the places you would like to see?
* Why do you think this site was selected by Adobe as the site of the day?

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Banner Audience & Purpose for Storyboard

I look forward to learning about the plans for your personal website banner. Your intended audience and purpose are important elements in creating your banner which is similar to the introduction of your website. Please make sure that you have your response posted and your banner storyboard completed before class begins today so that you can focus on creating your banner.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Logo Review and Redesign

Objectives
• Identify aspects of redesign and its importance in web design.
• Reflect on a digital image and identify what could be improved.
• Create a storyboard for the redesign of an image.
• Modify an existing image

Review your work in reference to your goals, intentions, and design constraints from your Storyboard blog posting. You will be completing a redesign write-up and a new logo

Possible steps or questions that will help in redesigning a product include the following:
• Meeting initial focus, purpose, and audience
• Changing focus, purpose, or audience
• Applying good design principles

Complete worksheet: Logo review and redesign

Individually review your own logos to redesign them.

After the review, create storyboards of your proposed redesign changes to create new logos.

Build your redesigned logos.