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)
BrowsersMozilla Firefox Internet Explorer 6.0
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