This week has been yet again an enjoyable one and even though last week was a half-term it didn’t really feel like it, as I have been working through out it. The main thing I worked on was the website as after feedback from Steve I need to do quite a lot of work on it. I’m quite regretting spending some much time on the website and neglecting the presentation because I still have quite a lot of work to do on the presentation.
Monday morning was actually really enjoyable and went very fast. I’m quite pleased with the feedback I got because I’m now able to improve the website some more and make it more accessible. The main changes I am going to make from the feedback are:
- Add images to all the terms as I did not have ones for all the terms in Data Communications & Networking
- Make the links more noticeable as they blend into the header too well
- Have a link straight to email so you can contact the website without having to use the form
- Add a link on the thank you page that takes you to the home page
- Add a footer to the bottom of the page as it just seems to end suddenly
There were a few mistakes found that I’d not noticed, which were two of the images on the home page had missing links that was down to my own mistake because I changed the image and didn’t add a new link. Another mistake that was brought up was that you could not put a space between your names on the feedback form, which was down to me using the wrong word in the JavaScript. The final problem was that some pages moved when the scroll bar appeared and I didn’t have that problem on my computer at home!
Well as I got some good feedback from the usability questionnaire, I’d appreciate it if you could take another look at the website and give me some more feedback. Here is the website and just to show you here is the original website.
The timed task on Tuesday was really enjoyable and this time I actually got feedback and on several occasions. I really wish I had got feedback on the last timed task as it was very helpful and improved the design so much. I was quite pleased with the design and what was more pleasing was getting it finished quite early. I hope I’ll be able to do that in the other timed tasks.
The website’s looking good- definitely a LOT better than the original- you’ve made some great changes to the site. As I said in the testing on Monday, I think a footer to the site will finish it off really nicely- glad you’ve chosen to do one soon.
For the timed tasks, it seems everyone’s getting carried away with the idea of finishing really early. While it’s obviously good to finish with plenty of time spare, I also think that the time left over can be used to make final tweaks to the final product. The time is there to be used, after all.
Greg the overall layout in my opinion works effectively. Keeping your navigation in a simple list at the top is a really good idea. However, I bet you knew a ‘however’ was coming.
However, it would look visually better if you stuck to a sans serif font throughout the design. I have checked every page and there is one major problem, no spacer between the first and second image.
Keep up the good work.
I do agree with you Tom, about using all the time that’s available. I feel I made good use of the time we had, since I got a suitable design in the bag and then got some feedback from Steve and made quite a few tweaks to it. I think I spent more time tweaking the design than I did creating it!
I’m not sure why there is no spacer between the first and second image as it only does that in Internet Explorer, and I’m still trying to working out why. I think I’ll have to take your idea and use a sans serif font throughout. Thanks for the feedback.
Its good to see that you have already made changers to your site and it looks really good.
Hi Greg
I think you have taken a lot of feedback into consideration and fixed most the problems i personaly found.
The layout of your site is easy to understand and the colour and font is easy to read.
The timed task looked fun this week and i am glad you all finished.
I have also notised you are getting a lot better at timed tasks as the first one you diddn’t have time to get up and ask Steve what he thorght of your design and you did this week making it an overall improovment.
Thanks, Martyn
I have noticed you often mess with your fringe in class and at break. It may be that you are not aware of it during a presentation because your so used to doing it under normal circumstances.
It might be useful in the actual presentation if you have something to hold such as a queue card and hold it with 2 hands so you physically can’t play with your hair.
Failing that perhaps do something with your fringe for that day (hair spray it back or to the side)?
Your website is looking good. I agree with what Mark said about the consistency with the typefaces.
The improvement you have made to the site have really helped and comparing it the original it looks a lot more professional.
The change to a sans-serif typeface has made a real improvement to the site and gives it a much cleaner look.
One thing to note is that the validation for the feedback form doesn’t work for the email address.
Seriously dude, your banner would look soo much cleaner if you took the large C off the ‘computer’ and made the size of the font on the whole word to be as big as the terms width. Because your going for the clean feel with the TERMS molding into the content, you really need to continue this throughout the banner to give it off effectively
Your website really has improved alot from the older one. Making the tweek I mentioned and a few other subtle design choices would vastly improve the overall look of your site.
Hi Greg
The modifications that you have made make the site look much better.
It appears that we share area’s of concern for example the clarity of the links; I think that perhaps having them under the header?!
The plain and simple footer I feel gives much clarity to the bottom of the page.
Keep up the good work.
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Shaun Bellis