Week5

Date: 5th November 2010

This week's lecture covered sitmapping, Navigation, labelling and categorization. The point of these, is to understand what users are expecting from the website.

Visitors of any website are expecting some content to be put in the same place as they got used to it on many major websites, it means as its just a standard design, Such as the search box, the basket for ordering online, etc.

Also, it would be a good design if the website had a description about what is it for on the main page, this way visitors don't have to go around wasting time thinking what this website is going to be just to find out that they don't need anything from this website.

We didn't have time to have a group meeting, as we had a tutorial on designing the first wepage using Dreamweaver and implementing a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This wasn't a hard tutorial for me, as I have experience in designing websites as it was my job before coming to UK. So I took the time in this tutorial to help my group with this, explaining everything to them and giving them solutions if they had some troubles.

So far, I'm getting along with the group very well, and as I hoped, helping them at this tutorial has already broken the barrier between us and we already started to act as teammates in one project.