Individual Roles

nformation Architect
Some of the major roles of the Information Architect are:
Make the site easy to use
Make the site accessible to a variety of users
Decides what users need from the web site
Make a simple search box so users can find what they need quickly and easily
Make the site interactive for users
make everything is easy to see and read
Organize the sites content
Create site maps, content maps, page schematics, text-based outlines
Three websites that give a good sum up of the jobs are:
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/userscience
http://www.goodexperience.com
http://articles.techrepublic.com
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008
Color Schemes
Color combinations are used and are important to everyday life. For example the Denver Broncos' colors are complimentary on their uniforms. Blue and orange are complimentary to each other because they are on opposite sides of the color wheel. Also when you mix colors different colors are created and different types of colors are created. For example Red + Yellow = Orange, Yellow + Blue = Green and Blue + Red = Purple. As you see when you mix two primary colors, a secondary color is created. Colors can also be tinted or shaded. Yes tinted and shaded are two different things. Tints are lightened colors that always begin with white and a little color is added until the color you want is reached. Shaded colors on the other hand are darkened colors where you always start with the color and add a little black until the color yo want is created. Along with warm and cool colors there are also neutral colors. While the left side of the chart are cool colors the right side are warm colors. between all of these colors are neutral colors Black white gray and sometimes brown are considered neutral colors. There are 3 types of color schemes each are different from the other. The different types are below and a website that is an example of 1.

Analogous: A website composed of colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel. http://www.nfl.com/
Complementary: A website composed of colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel. http://www.blogger.com
Monochromatic: A website composed of shades an tints of 1 color. http://www.apple.com/startpage/
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2008
The Perfect Web Site
The Perfect website has a few very obvious characteristics but also has others that are usually not thought about by the user. Some of the obvious characteristics and some of the not so obvious are listed below.

A good background that does not distract the user
Texts are very complimentary to the page
No annoying music that the user is unable to stop
Colors that compliment each other
The Graphics should have to do with the content of the site
The site should be user friendly
The site should be optimized to take the minimum loading time
The site should be easy to navigate
The info on the site should be up to date
The site should be interactive so the user is interacting with the site
The site should have a comment board that the people can comment on the website
The site should be user friendly
The site should have info sections
The site should be appropriate for all ages
Its should be user friendly no matter what age


On The Cutting Edge

The RFP is being requested by a CEO of a large company. He has called a meeting in the zone so he could see many different ideas for websites. Our team will prove that we are the best qualified by writing a list of things that make up the perfect website. We will also make a design grid to prove we can do the job. The first step is for each member to summarize what he/she thinks a perfect web site is made up of. The design teams should not use words like cool, easy or fun because the director wants more descriptive words that would give him/her a better idea of what the website is like. The CEO wants a description in a design grid which is a chart filled with the description of your site that you will present to the CEO.


Shalonta Brown: The Content Manager (researches and writes content)
Brandon Lowe: The informaion archetect (Navigation)
Zach Jackson: The Graphics Designer (obtains images and designs graphics)