Day 20 - C

Card Sorting

URP
Brief description of URP and mission
Committe names & Departments
How students can get involved
Calendar of improtant dates for all URP programs
What is undergraduate research?

SURF
Application
Schedule
Description of review process
What is surf day
Examples

SURE
Application
Application instructions
Description of SURE
Schedule
List of projects

Elon College Fellows 499
Registration form
Registration deadlines
Compensation policy document for faculty
Registration for a course

NCUR
Description of NCUR
Description of NCUR conference
Application instructions for NCUR conference

GRANTS
research grants
all the info dealing with that

travel grants
all the info dealing with that

RAWLS
all the info dealing with that

Day 20 - B

Our group was assigned a hybrid organizational scheme. We chose to combine audience specific, task oriented, and chronological.

Hybrid Scheme
The site would start off with audience specific, where you would be able to chose between student and faculty/professor. Inside those catagories would be a task oriented organizational scheme where you could see the different options for students or faculty, depending on which one you initially chose. Each task would then have a chronological organization inside of it that tracked the steps needed to compelte each task. We would also include a section of the site that would go through past years and examples of work using a chronological organizational scheme.

I believe a hybrid scheme is the best choice since you are able to pick the best of the more specific schemes and combine them into the most useful organization for a web site.

Day 20

User: Student

Goal A: Become a presenter at SURF.

Task 1: Find out about SURF.
Subtask 1: What is SURF
Subtask 2: How to become eligible
Subtask 3: When are deadlines?
Subtask 4: When is SURF?

Task 2: Apply for SURF
Subtask 1: Find and download application
Subtask 2: Submit application

SURF Web Site Problems

Problems with the Elon SURF Web site...

While the header looks OKAY on the main page, I would suggest a brand new header. The bevel effect is pretty outdated. As a whole, the header is pretty dull looking.

There is very poor alignment throughout the whole site. This needs to be addressed ASAP.

The colors are pretty weak. The bright red on top of the bright yellow is too much saturation.

It appears as if the content is there, it is just laid out and formatted poorly. Links need to be obvious and show whether or not they are pointing to a new page, a .pdf, a .doc, or something else.

As far as navigation goes, it is hard to tell where you are while navigating through the different pages. There should be an indicator on every page.

Headers for specific pages need to either be images, or a better font/color so that they don't look as tacky. Solid maroon as a header with black content text is a lot better than trying to make headers "fancy" with three different colors.

SOLUTION: redesign the site entirely, but make sure old pages are saved so that no content is lost.

Homework 3

http://whalebone.elon.edu/cis310/akay2/homework3/

Day 17 Lab

http://whalebone.cs.elon.edu/cis310/akay2/day17lab/

Forms Lab

http://whalebone.cs.elon.edu/cis310/akay2/day16lab/

Day 15

Today we used WebAnywhere to navigate sites as a visually impaired person. We were unable to use our monitors and could only navigate based off of the screen reader who reads out the content of a page. We found that it was extremely time consuming and frustrating to try to get to where you want to go, despite how easily it is to navigate the site. Often times, it was hard to figure out how to get the reader to read the content in the middle of the page. Instead, it would read all of the side links and things that were unrelated to what we were searching for. I'm sure most of the diffuculty comes from the fact that we are not comfortable with this tool, nor are any of us comfortable with not using our eyes will searching the web. While someone who is actually visually impaired may have an easier time using the tool, there are still many issues apparent for handicapped people that want to use the web.