Sunday, January 13, 2008

Readings Week 5 For RIT737

  1. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html
  2. http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial1.html
  3. http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/98/28/index0a.html
  4. Google Analytics
  5. http://www.wholinks2me.com/
  6. SiteMeter.com

Group Project 1: Design Document (January 28, 2008)

This Group project requires that you find a partner in class to work with in order to design from scratch a 5-7 page website or redesign an existing outdated web site using CSS for the formatting and HTML for the content.

Your site must include 5 or more of the following page mock ups (or some others that are more appropriate to your topic) and some external CSS file to control the formatting of your content.



  1. Sitemap

  2. About us

  3. Directions (if applicable)

  4. FAQ’s & Tips

  5. Contact us (mail form)

  6. Photo Gallery (if applicable)

  7. Links

  8. Password protected guestbook





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The first group assignment will be to create a design document for the site, using the guidelines provided in the Webmonkey Information Architecture Tutorial.



Please Post as a comment to this Blog entry, you and your partner’s name, and the URL and the client’s contact information of the site you are going to redesign. Please only one posting per group.




Sunday, January 6, 2008

Readings Week 4 For RIT737

The Web Robots Pages

Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and they have many other uses.

/robots.txt is, and how to use

Why should I make my web site more accessible? How can I make my web site more accessible?
How do users actually view your website?

Readings on Usability and Accessibility

  1. CNN Article on Web Accessibility
  2. "How we really use the Web," a chapter from Steve Krug's wonderful book, Don't Make Me Think!
  3. Jakob Nielsen's "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003" and "Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines"