Mission Statement- Quinnipiac Branches

The site for Quinnipiac Branches is one that provides information about upcoming and past events and activities, the people that are involved, and how to become apart of this Catholic campus ministry organization. It's purpose will be to help those who are interested get involved with this campus organization. It will be a site whose audience includes the present Quinnipiac University campus, future students, and alumni so that they can be informed on this active and positive community within Quinnipiac. The site will include media options including pictures from events and maybe some streaming videos when possible. Information on masses and prayer times will be available also. The layout will be simple and easy to use, and its colors should include the University colors (blue and gold) so that it will be identified with Quinnipiac easily. This website will be used as an informative resource.

Chapter 2

-You must have a main message that is clear in your front page. Organization can help with finding the site's main focus on communication. It also has to tell your audience where they can find what it is your site is communicating.
-Sort your site's information in a way that makes sense and how people can expect it to behave. You need to tell the audience what is in each category by describing the title or link appropriately.
-Using labels is fine as long as your audience knows what you're talking about. You need to use links/labels in phrases or words that are understandable to them. Your site must also be able to support direct connection to what the viewer wants and also allow easy browsing.
-When planning for a site, you should keep in mind that the navigation should not take up the most space on the page. It is just there to guide the user, and you don't want to have the navigation to take way from the main space, nor do you want it to clutter your site.
-Visual communication can describe the personality of the site and the author of the site the quickest. You can also see it in the content and organization. Other personality setters for the site are navigation and colors. Everything is key and works together to create the personality of the site.

Mission Statement Revised

This website will serve as a personal portfolio site which will hopefully help promote me, as a designer, and is a site that is geared mostly towards clients and/or future employers but also towards family and friends. It will serve as a site to showcase my work in my IDD classes and also some video production pieces I did during my free time. It will also share my personal interests on a page where I would like to include some of my interests, for example, movies, books, music and also some of my hobbies which include video production, playing music, composing screenplays and poetry, and also reading. The design will reflect me, as a person, by using subtle colors and a simple design, and will be updated with new projects and ideas whenever I can.

Mission Statement

This website will be a site about me, and it will serve as a site to showcase my work in my IDD classes and also some video production pieces I did during my free time. It will also share my personal interests. The design will reflect me, as a person, and will be updated with new projects and ideas whenever I can. It will hopefully help promote me, as a designer. It is a site that is geared mostly towards clients and/or future employers but also towards family and friends. It will basically be a personal portfolio website.

Chapter 1

-Websites can provide clues to help communicate the important ideas it's portraying. These include images, text, organization, motion, sound, and interaction.
-These elements together can provide a presentation that is clear and successful for the site.
-According to Wroblewski, speaking "web" means you have to think through, with detail, the organization and interactivity of a website. The author of the site also has to take in consideration the way it is presented to the audience. This means that visuals are very important.
-To make the message of the site very clear, then the site's author must think through the main idea that they want to portray and how to express it. He/She needs to know "who is saying what to whom?"
-An effective site needs to be understandable and be able to communicate clearly. Certain questions should be asked to find out if your site has a successful communication. These are:
"What is my website's goal?" "Who is my audience?" "Why are they likely to come to my site?", "How do they communicate?"
-Make sure you know your client and your client's goals. Also, know the need that your site is going to solve for your audience.
-Knowing who your target audience is is also a must. By knowing that, you can figure out the tone, attitude, and personality of the site.
-How your audience communicates with one another can help to decide the language to use on your site. For example, the author of the book writes about using the word pan in a cooking website. The use of the word pan is (in this site) meant as a cooking utensil whereas the word pan on a video production website means to move a camera in a certain way.
-A scenario can help an author of a website to understand the site's audience. By figuring out the information about the visitors' goals, what is the best way to realize the goal, and the best outcome for the audience's visit to the page, we can make the site work effectively.
-Write a mission statement to refer to so that you make sure that the work that you're doing is being done effectively towards your client and your client's audience. A mission statement is an outline that describes the audience and purpose of the site.

Introduction

-As technology grows, users can use it more simply and creatively at the same time. People are finding new ways to make technology more user-friendly as well as eye-pleasing.
-The World Wide Web was first used as a data and file transfer ability. The sites online were basically just text and weren't very user-friendly.
-Layouts came later when images and tables began making sites much more interesting to look at.
-Graphic designers came along and furthered the visual designs of websites. The visual presentation started to look really interesting and creative, however, they were still lacking in the usability department.
-At that time, websites paid so much attention to the look, that they only spent a little attention to content and ease of use. This meant unhappy customers.
-Eventually, designers started narrowing down on clarity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Users would then spend more time on the site and easily find the information they were looking for.
-Websites need to have quick downloading because people can become impatient when waiting for large files to download. This means cutting back on high quality images etc. which may even mean the site is more efficient for a happy customer.
-We need to understand "visual communication principles for content delivery, interpretation, and presentation" in order to produce an effective website.
-Also, technical concerns, like downloading time and accessibility are important factors. They are some items that users are looking for in a good website. Not to mention presentation along with emotion.
-Presentation is the look and appearance of the site. Interaction is the behavior of the site as the user uses it. Organization is the way the site is built; it's structure.

Rebecca's Homepage Mock-Up

Preface

-The visual aspect of a website defines most of the communication to the audience. It contains all the information within the site. As the viewer, you can find that the appearance of the site can also form the emotional response that you experience while visiting.
-Sites that are easy to use are the best kind because they get the point across effectively.
-There are three parts that make up an easy-to-use, yet effective website. They are technical (building), structure (organization), and visual (appearance).
-The visual part is the most important aspect. It communicates the point reasonably, convincingly, and quickly.
-The visual aspect also does so much more for the audience. It has function and directs the user which also adds to its importance.