Monday, December 14, 2009

Navigate to my grade and give me a 100

Navigation is a pretty important part in any website. From car manufacturing websites to class homework sites, navigation to the page elements that you want seen is vital.

If you go to a car website, hoping to design your new vehicle, and can't figure out how to get to the page where that's available, you'd just be better off finding a new site, which means a new car company. So quickly, you went from having a 'useful' tool on your site, to having it be completely useless due to a half-arsed navigation.

With every adverse effect, there is an opposite. The opposite here would be a better navigation and button layout through the pages, which would keep visitors on your page for longer, and keep productivity in your target viewers.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Soshal Natwerkng

Social Networking is not so much a phenomenon but a new way to communicate entirely. Neanderthals had stone tablets, the Knights of the Round Table had swallows with ropes tied to them, and our parents had mixed tapes and love notes. Our generation, proudly or not, has been tied to the social networking crusade of the internet.

I don't personally think that this fad is dangerous or not, however. If these sites 'lead to fights' or cause emotional drama, the same could be said about just interacting with one another; so simplified, these networking sites like
Facebook.com just make interacting and sharing simpler; which helps with anything, from fights, to school projects.