Pros and Cons of My Two Designs

Well for my first design it has everything I want. It is just I don't think the colour scheme is appropriate. Black and green aren't suitable for a website. That is the only problem with design one. Design two has one bad thing about it, the text Kristen ITC. It's good for more kid like websites like BBC or CBBC. This is a serious website where I want people to read it and not have a hard time reading it. So I have chosen to go with design one because it looks smarter and it's not too smart. Also the text won't be too big or too small. The table of contents is in a good place ( top right of page and so is the logo. I think I might just change the colour scheme from black and green to black and blue. Maybe for the titles I might use a bright colour but not too bright. I think the information will be in bite sizes so readers don't get bored of trying to find the information they want.

Task 6

For my final web page I'm going to make it about Floods . I chose to do this because today there are lots floods in Asia. I want to inform people why they happen, how they happen and what we can do to help.
To do this project I need to:

• Find more than 4 resources about flooding

I have some pictures about flooding all over the world but I need top get information. I have saved the pictures in my images folder for my web page.

• Designing the logo

My logo is going to be a house underwater with the roof showing

• Designing the home page in Dreamweaver

I have to add the information, pictures and the layout of the pages. The colour scheme also needs to be put together/

• Designing the other pages

I need to put together the information and design the layout of the pages. Also I need to put together the colour scheme .

• Adding all the work to the pages

I need to add the information, pictures, titles and contents table

• Evaluate my work and other people's

Once we have finished the project we need to do this as well as writng the reflection

• Write a reflection
  

Good and Bad things about websites

We discussed the the pros and cons of websites. First we discussed it in groups and then we did it as a class.

Good things about websites:

• Loads quickly
• Has interesting pictures
• Looks attractive
• It is set out in a layout that is easy to read
• Not too colourful
• Hasn't got too much information together
• Has a contents table
• Easy to read
• The space is well used
• The text is easy to understand

Bad things about websites

• Bad language
• Annoying adverts
• Too many adverts
• Too many images
• Lots of pop-ups
• Too much information together
• Size of text is too small
• The colour scheme is to bright
• Missing pages or unfinished
• Has repeating information
• No table of contents
• Has viruses

For my website I think I'm going have three or four pages about disasters. Each page will be about a different disaster. The colour scheme will probably be purple, black and red. But when I start to make it, I think I will change the scheme.

Click here for a bad website. It is so colourful and takes along time to load.

Click here for another bad website. It looks bad and the blinking faces are creepy.

This is a good website because it is useful and quite well set out.

What I have learnt from this:

I have learnt that using not too bright colours and about four or five pictures on a website is good because you can read the colours and if you have too many pictures, it will take a long time to load. Also if there is too much text and it is too small, people won't bother reading it and just go to another website.

Answers For Questions

Questions
Why is communication so important during an emergency?
What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami
What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?
What information can be created before the emergency? What information needs to be communicated during the emergency?
What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?

Answers
Communication is important during an emergency so people all over the world can find out what is happening and how they should deal with the situation. Also people can get help faster.
Some forms of communication that were used in recent disasters include texting, news, internet, blogs, emailing, MSN, newspapers, Skype, radios, megaphones, billboards and phone calls.
The essential information that needs to be communicated in an emergency is what happened, where did it happen, who did it happen to, why did it happen, when did it happen, how it happened and how it is effecting the area.
Before an emergency, we need to plan what needs to be communicated and the most efficient way to communicate this information. People usually plan using who, what, where, when, why, how and which questions. There are often trial runs to test if it works.
A wireless card, a telephone connection, computer, PSP, telephone.

Answers For Questions

Questions
Why is communication so important during an emergency?

What forms of communication have been used during recent disasters e.g Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunami

What essential information needs to be communicated during a disaster or emergency?

What information can be created before the emergency? What information needs to be communicated during the emergency?

What hardware and software is required to be able to communicate online?

Answers
Communication is important during an emergency so people all over the world can find out what is happening and how they should deal with the situation. Also people can get help faster.

Some forms of communication that were used in recent disasters include texting, news, internet, blogs, emailing, MSN, newspapers, Skype, radios, megaphones, billboards and phone calls.

The essential information that needs to be communicated in an emergency is what happened, where did it happen, who did it happen to, why did it happen, when did it happen, how it happened and how it is effecting the area.

Before an emergency, we need to plan what needs to be communicated and the most efficient way to communicate this information. People usually plan using who, what, where, when, why, how and which questions. There are often trial runs to test if it works.
A wireless card, a telephone connection, computer, PSP, telephone.

4 th October 2007

Last week in IT we used a website to mess around with changing a source.
We could change the colour of the text and the background.
I learnt how to make HTML tags. They are how to change the text colour,
background, whether it's bold or italic and stuff like that. HTML means Hyper
Text Markup Language. Mr.Hitchman gave us a notepad file. In it , it had
how we could make the text blink. The tags were made and saved on notepad.
I found the last class really fun because of what i managed to accomplish and because I found it easy. Also I learnt that if you made one little mistake it wouldn't work.

Thursday September 27th, 2007

Last week we had problems with our usernames and passwords so people had to write it on peices of paper. People were getting really confused with the different paswords and usernames. We wasted alot of time waiting for people. After that we talked about the different types of commincation via the internet. We came up with messenger, emailing, internet, news, skype and many more things. We went back to our computers and opened up our favourite website. I opened up youtube.com. Then we opened the source. I was really suprised at what youtube.com really looked like. Like Mr.Hitchman said "Its all code like the Matrix." We opened up notepad and had to type in a really weird type of code. It took a long time to type up. When we opened up the site, there was like two sentences of text. It was dumb how so much text made so little. We also learned what HTML means.

IT Blog for Thursday 13th September, 2007

So far in IT we have made a del.icio.us account and a bloggerr account. Our topic in communication in a disaster. The del.icio.us website is really cool. It can save all of your favourites. So when you save a website in school you can get it at home or on the move. I really like this website because it is extremly helpful. People should get them. This blogger thing is ok, i woudn't of thought of keeping a process journal on the web. Now QA has got its own del.icio.us website, so when we need information we can access it from home or another country. From now on we have to keep our process journal here. Also we got to create an account in school. We have to show our feelings in this thing.
Z Daud