This was the second part of the journey to the Generation One Cybercommunity. I was for sure less anxious about the journey and maybe less excited about it. However, I continued my journey with on focus on my mind... "taking an objective perspective. " As I mentioned in my Week#7 report, I needed to be objective as possible to observe myself learning in the Net. However, I knew that it is not going to be easy.
My journey began with the home page of Dellia Badua. I thought that she did a fairly good job with topical index. She only used simple images and focused on the contents of topical index. I could see that she contemplated about choosing words for each topic. I thought it was really smart of her to use only short adjectives and nouns for the name of the topics and attracted the readers with the curiosity about what the content would be like. For example, words like confident, frustration, or finally seemed to give an idea about the content but still looked mysterious so that it looked interesting. I have seen many works that main contents had categorized names and they were divided into different parts like weeks and also topics. I thought Dellia Badua's work is one of them.
Concerning the appearance, Dellia Bauda's work is simple but very eye-gazing. I really liked her icons, especially bullets in many different colors. The simplicity was powerful enough to draw people's eyes. I wrote down the name of some icons so tha t I can use some of them to beautify my pages. Her style reminded me of "Hypercard," which is a program that gives a random access to information with table of contents and clickable icons like "forward," and "backward." What I mean is she always gave t he reader the choice to whether to keep reading the document or to stop and try read another document. It was very kind of her to put clickable icons that gives choice to the readers.
There were two people who made the letters of weekly reports larger so that it is easier to read. They are Dellia Badua and Jason Raad. I thought in style or appearance it doesn't seem to look good but it surely was easy to read. But Jason Raad's ho me page was missing something very important. It was topical index. Even though he has done a good job with content and appearance, it was his big mistake to forget to put topical index. He surely reminded of me the importance of the topical index. Th e disadvantage of not having a topical index is like not knowing where to go. It felt like lost in the middle of great amount of books without titles and divided sections to tell where and how to find book that I want.
Another mistake by Jason Raad made me think about the importance of giving a right name to right report. I mean, some of his topic names he only added to report itself were not proper... (Although he didn't have a topical index, he had a topic names o
r subheadings for each lab reports. did I tell you about it? I guess not.) It seemed like in some of them his topic names and contents were not compatible. For example, in one of his topics called "Webcrawler," it seems like the focus of document is s
omething else but he named it, "Webcrawler."
Again, it was important to name the right document with right topic.