(Won-The-Full) (A- Ma-Zing) It looks Ok.. actually..

Who do you think the site is created for?

Suppose is to attract  “CONSUMERS” who wants to get clothes, cosmetics or other merchandise. They are promoting their product online such as clothes. This Fashion is  well known for selling clothes. However from the look of the website, it’s still not clear whether its selling clothes. It only states that it sells merchandise like cosmetics, lingerie.., they’re not being specific. So.. those who do not know about This Fashion shop, from the look of the website, they will be confused.

What are the good attributes of the site (in terms of usability, aesthetic issues, etc)?

It has this menu tabs thing that can access from one information to another tabs information without changing pages. It  has simple and have some user friendly accesibilities. The informations are organize nicely into tables.

What are the bad attributes of the site?

Bad use of typography. The colors choice for the fonts doesnt suit the background colour. The layout keep changing in the different tabs, also, the tabs is not fix to the page, it keeps moving left and right thus, reducing the visual emphasis.  The use of color is not strong enough to attract a customer. Looks empty and abit plain. . The site is not clear to what they want to achieve.

Site Obejective.pdf

The PDF for the questions

Is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and the Internet Explorer use within their browsers.The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs. The Browser-Safe Palette only contains 216 colors out of a possible 256. That is because the remaining 40 colors vary on Macs and PCs. By eliminating the 40 variable colors, this palette is optimized for cross-platform use. The Browser-Safe Palette is useful for flat-color illustrations, logos with flat-color, and areas in any image that have a lot of a single color. When a browser dithers flat colors it looks far more objectionable than when it dithers photographs.

2) Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?

Yes & No.  Although nowadays, professional designer had a system that supported thousands or millions of colors, many companies that hire designers and developers still uses these 216 colors. Conversely, there’s no harm in using the browser-safe palette either. It simply limits your choices to 216 colors.  At this point, there’s no right or wrong when it comes to which colors you pick, but more important to know how to combine colors in pleasing and effective ways.

3) What are the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?

Arial BIG family, Comic Sans Ms, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Lucida console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Palatino, Tahoma, Times New Romans, Verdana,  Helvetica

4) What is page loading time and how it influence your design?

The time taken to load your websites. It needs to be fast as fast page load times are crucial for keeping users happy. This is especially true for e-commerce websites.

1. Faster pages make a better user experience.

2. It’s possible that page load times are directly associated with search engine rankings.

3. Slow pages lose money

5) A quite interesting and looong article for a “know nothing about web design”  like me  to follow. ( the instructional design process link is broken though) it bascally talks about the importance of the basic design rule like composition, imagery, color, typography and how to make use of it to execute it nicely to the design. I just realised that most year 1 modules can be useful to designing a web. It also talks the importance of the exploration you have done into designing web. Planning out by mapping out all the ideas.. thumbnails to plan out the layout of the web.. researches and discovering new ways to desing can be useful to the overall layout. When designing a web, questions like what are you trying to achieve in your design is important to ask yourself so that it wont ruin the feeling, concept and the style of the design. While developing your design, we need to be sure of what your client wants before launching. Communications with the clients as well as communicate through their website, what type of information they want the reader to not only see, but to REMEMBER your website.  Overall, its a great resource to understand the workflow of designing a web. it gives me a better apporach to handling web design by steps that many follows.

Name as many browsers that u know…

Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, Netscape Browser, WorldWideWeb and Mozilla.

What is browser wars?

Browsers wars are the competition between a lot of different browsers for the top user choice. It happen since WorldWIdeWeb first started until now, where internet explorer competing with mozila. safari etc etc.

What is IP address?

Internet Protocol is the address that is use to identify your network ( just like an identification card) and establishing connection using ip for communication. It is represented in numerical “human readble notations”.

What is URL?

Uniform Resource locator, the address of resources on the World Wide Web- A system of internet servers that support specially formatted documents.
What is a good website?

The structure of the website must be good like the accesiblities to the links and the overall architecture of the websites which includes typography. The Graphics Design of the website is also important.