Came across this good book by accident in the library (someone must hv miss-shelf it :P).
The book is about web development based on Visual-spatial approach (Baehr, 2007). I like this approach...
The web development process is divided into 5 different phases:-
1. Planning: Conceptual phase that involves identifying the subject, audience, purpose, context, scope and functionality of the site.
2. Contents: Researching, writing, and adapting content for individual web pages, including markup and scripting.
3. Structure: Developing the overall site structure, arrangement of web pages, and navigation tools.
4. Design: Designing the visual content, page layout and interface elements.
5. Usability: Formal testing of the site for usability and accessibility prior to publishing the site.
Reference: Baehr, C. (2007). “Web Development: A Visual-spatial Approach”, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
after google~ing....i realized that there are model that you can refer to about web usability.
here i present u the first model (Web usability: the simple framework):-
based on Loosely (2007)
To satisfy customers, a Web site must fulfill four distinct needs:
- Availability: A site that's unreachable, for any reason, is useless.
- Responsiveness: Having reached the site, pages that download slowly are likely to drive customers to try an alternate site.
- Clarity: If the site is sufficiently responsive to keep the customer's attention, other design qualities come into play. It must be simple and natural to use – easy to learn, predictable, and consistent.
- Utility: Last comes utility -- does the site actually deliver the information or service the customer was looking for in the first place?
Now...The second model of web usability:-
Mixture methods (Hermie)
Visibility Analysis
Learn how users explore your website. What gets looked at and what doesn't.
Efficient visibility is a prerequisite for a website to be intuitively usable. Visibility analysis studies eye movements on the relevant pages with the help of the innovative
- How do users' eyes move across a web page?
- How much attention is paid to the different regions?
- Is attention directed to the relevant elements?
web usability is about making your website can be use efficiently by the target users, so dat they can find what they r searching for easily. it's like making the process easier for the users. Target users for each site might be different. so focus on the users. Children might prefer easy navigational system with colourful images and easy terms. Older adult might prefer bigger text and simple design. Female and males might prefer differents things.
ok...so everyone is different.
Here are several tips that could increase the usability of your website. You should provide:-
- easy navigation system: so dat people don't get lost!
- small file size. so dat your website could be viewed and downloaded quickly: time is verrry precious...not everyone is patient. Usability studies have shown that 8.6 seconds is the maximum time web users will wait for a page to download.
- easy information retrieval: dis is important. you can use headings, links text, bold text and bulleted lists to make your information seen (webcredible).
In the last class we were asked by Dr. Zaidatun to discuss, design, and develop instructional web templates that integrate any learning theory approach. So, we choose Discovery Learning approach. The task is to develop web template can be used any teachers/ educators who wish to integrate Discovery Learning approach in the classroom instruction. So, it will be easier teachers/educators as they don’t have to develop the web, don’t have to worry about the approach, all they have to do are just follow the instructions and insert their contents. And, TADA! The web pages are complete.
Okay, things will be easy for the teachers/educators….but might not for us. This sort of things is new to me, and I do found the task very challenging. Honest statement, no fingers cross! Because it hard to thinks the activities can be used to teach any topics, any subjects, and can be used by anyone. Well, especially when we are not sure how to integrate the learning theory in the web template. Okay, that’s might be the main reason unfortunately…huhu..
There are 3 basic elements.
Cost : Friedlien (2001) in her book, Web Project Management stated that the cost basically is not only about money, but it also include the management time, opportunity cost, or other things that have value to the project.
Time : Number of days to complete the project, and also the total of the man-hours spent on the project.
Quality : Whether the end product meet the specifications and aims of the web.
Cost, time and quality, all these elements could affect one another. It’s like variables and how they affect each other. Getting confused? Okay, I’ll do my best to explain. For example, you as the project manager are aiming for the good quality web. So, quality will become your dependent variable, and the other two elements; cost and time will become the manipulated variable. Time and cost can be increase or decrease based on what quality you are expected.
The situation will also be the same if you have the tight budget. Cost will be your dependent variable, then what you have to do is manipulating the other two element; the quality and time.
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