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School of Information – (Current Student Section). By: Amit Sharma | inf 385e Fall 2005 - iSchool, UT- Austin. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html. Website available at:. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html Tools used: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Design & Coding)
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School of Information – (Current Student Section) By: Amit Sharma | inf 385e Fall 2005 - iSchool, UT- Austin http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Website available at: • http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html Tools used: • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Design & Coding) • Microsoft Visio 2003 (Wireframes) • Text Editor – Notepad (Javascript) • Browsers - Mozilla Firefox , Internet Explorer (Display) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Main Page (Before) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Main Page ( After ) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Site Statistics • Total No. of Pages : 17 • Validation Results(http://validator.w3.org) : Validated : 11 Not validated : 06 (due to URL on pages which were not recognized by w3.validator) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Graphics and Logos used University of Texas at Austin School of Information Logo Images taken from Personal Camera & iSchool Site http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html
Changed Features (1) Course Description (Before) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html
Changed Features (1) Course Description (After) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/coursedescription.htm
Changed Features (2) Courses division (based on Academic Tracks) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/library.htm
New Features (1) iSpace ( One stop for all information needs) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/ispace.htm
New Features (2) My Courses Page http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/yourcourses.htm
Design Decisions • Dividing the main page according to specified users. • Labels ( e.g. iSpace, iZone, iPlace, my Courses). • No. of Levels for website. • Content to include in iSpace. • Number of images on a single web page. • Division of courses by Academic Tracks. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html
Problems Faced (1) Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer 6.0 • Browsers http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/courses.html
Problems Faced (2) • Tools don’t behave the way you expect (Dreamweaver producing extra code). • Logo of iSchool ( a small file which on expanding produces blurriness in text). • Trade off between Size Vs Mission of site. • How to make users enter and visit the site again http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html
References • Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the world wide Web, 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. • Van Duyne, D., Landay, J. A., & Hong, J. I. (2003). Design of sites: patterns, principles, and processes for crafting a customer-centered Web experience. Boston, MA: Addison -Wesley, Inc. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html
Thank You Website address: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html - Amit Sharma