Report 3

An Information Superhighway?

The term "information superhighway" is as close as a metaphor can be to surfing the Internet. A highway consists of many different parts. All of these parts that define a highway. For instance according to the Webster's New World Dictionary, one of the meanings is "a thoroughfare." We will see how all the parts can be tied in to the Web. First to travel to a Website, there must be signs. Signs are like links. They stand out and tell you where you about to go. If you press on it, it is like getting off at that one exit. To get to a certain point of choice, there must be an address. Addresses are URLs or uniform resource locators. URLs, if typed in, go directly to the spot of choice. Web search engines are like a phone book. You can look for a place to go and the address is right there.

Good? Bad? Somewhere in the Middle?

Links on a page should definitely be organized. One way to make things less confusing would give each page a header. When making links throughout the page, that header or similar can tell the audience just where he or she will be taken. This is just a possible suggestion, because in that example that I have of an unorganized website, the links are really confusing. Todd Crawford's page is a little confusing. I am not quite sure where exactly each link takes you. He has two links that say exactly the same thing but they take you to different places. His main page is a blank screen pretty much with five available links. Check it out!!!

I found another example of a page that was a little too hard to read, Barry Kwock's homepage. He also is from generation one. There is no pictures and from what I see, the text fills up the whole screen the minute you link to his page. In this page I would suggest a header maybe to seperate the sections. Also from what I see, the text on the screen are from the reports. From what I see, there are supposed to be links but there are numbers, instead. I am not really sure what that means, but I know I can not click on them. It is just hard on the eyes to read a whole screen of just text like that.

As for an example of a page that is not so confusing I found Lori Morita's homepage from Generation 2. Overall I found her page to be very presentable and easy to look at. Her page does not seem cluttered. Her links were not confusing as in Todd Crawford's(previously mentioned) report. It's just that her page had a simple and easy to understand framework.

Also, I found another page belonging to Grant Muranaka. His page was pretty well organized and the site was not cluttered too much with icons or with too much text. I enjoyed looking through his page and was interested in his reports and everything else because of the neat graphics and layout.

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