Monday, March 26, 2007
Mod 3 - Optional standards task
Top five requirements for well written web pages - or easy to read/use?
1 best stuff first - perhaps a list
2 no flashy images etc
3 use links that have relevance and won't take your reader away from your point
4 don't break it up too much - you'll lose your reader
5 good short, punchy sentences - web readers scan much more so than readers of hard copy BUT if they really want to read what you have written they will print it - make it easy to print
I think all the articles are interesting and all have some relevance today , but the way we use the internet is always changing and so the way we write for it changes too.
task 2 - don't really have a web page to test this on yet ...
1 best stuff first - perhaps a list
2 no flashy images etc
3 use links that have relevance and won't take your reader away from your point
4 don't break it up too much - you'll lose your reader
5 good short, punchy sentences - web readers scan much more so than readers of hard copy BUT if they really want to read what you have written they will print it - make it easy to print
I think all the articles are interesting and all have some relevance today , but the way we use the internet is always changing and so the way we write for it changes too.
task 2 - don't really have a web page to test this on yet ...
Web design - does it matter?
"Still, the dot-com meltdown has proven that fancy design won't save a bad web site." From course readings. Totally agree - hate those fancy sites but then I'm not a thirty something or twenty something web designer ...
Here's a concept I'd like to explore further: Information & communication are related. People like to develop their own context for the information they are seeking ...
Here's a concept I'd like to explore further: Information & communication are related. People like to develop their own context for the information they are seeking ...
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