For major project 3 I am going to create the QU Branches web page. The site will have a simple design in order to provide the viewer with more information. The home page will have main events, photos, and other important information. The site will be easily navigated to find what the user is looking for. I am going to use similar colors to the Quinnipiac colors.

I am going to use the mind map and notes I have from when we worked on the mock ups for QU branches. I will use these to help organize the site, and reach QU branches goals.
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ch. 8

1. Dynamic content and Web applications emerged as solutions to the difficulties faced by many Web companies. It quickly became aparent that static HTML pages were only effective to a certian point.
2. With dynamic content publishing, the need to understand the web environment is removed and up-to-date content can be automatically distributed to an entire site by just about anyone.
3. With dynamic content publishing, it's also possible to get closer to one of the original goals of the World wide web: the seperation of content and formatting.
4. Designers used headers and tables to create effective layouts, not content distinctions. Additional tags were added by browser vendors, such as font to meet the presentation needs of corporations and individuals.
5. Publishing content dynamically has added benefit of customization.
6. Not only are advirtisers offering less for ad space, but the difficulties with directly changing your audience for content are not easily remidied.
7. Careful initial thought to how and where content can be applied within your site should always precede any dynamic publishing development efforts.
8. The basic principle behind many forms of dynamic publishing is that data sits in one location and the means for displaying it sits in another.
9. When accommodating for browser variables, you only really have to consider two groups of two: prevision 4.0 browsers by both Netscape and Microsoft, and the differences between Netscape Navigator and MIcrosoft Internet Explorer.
10. A common practice when presenting web applications is making use of a new window without browser tools. Though this practice is not good for the most web pages, it is recommended for web applications.

Connecticut Campus Compact

http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/rarusso/CampusCompactWebsite/Connecticut%20Campus%20Compact_files/index.html

Ch. 7

-The home page should have an introduction, which describes the site and establises identity, an entrance which ia an entry to the content and explain's what inside, and an announcement which shows what's new, encourages revising, and highlights content.
-Things to avoid in your site in order for it to be easier and faster for the audience to understand are most intro movies, animated logos, very large images, and splash pages.
-Your homepage needs to introduce visitors to your orginization and what makes you unique. You also need to consider the kind of personality your audience expects.
-One of the most important aspects of technological usability to consider when develping your home page is download time. Hving a homepage that loads quickly is important to keeep a majority of web users.
- Visual contrast can make a home page element stand out from the rest of the page. They can sla be used to keep an element subdued so that it does not interfere witht the rest of the page's content. Your audience's needs should determine how much visual weight each element should have.

Ch. 6
-The most common web page elements are page footers, body text, links, navigation, images, site ids, forms. The least common are videos, embedded programs.
-Each fundamental element has its role within a web page and in the context of the entire web.
-The footer fulfills the same role from site to site, it looks the same frfom site to site.
-After encountering several footers, viewers not only know what type of information they can expect when they see a footer, but they also have a good idea of where thay need that type of inforamtion.
-Site elements can reinforce the personality of a site. Sites heavy on navigation tend to be information rich and need multiple navigation options to get their audience to the content they seek.
-The visual presentation of site elements can also reinforce a sitewide personality. Common visual characteristics, such as color or type between page elements can help unify a layout.
-Navigation systems are at their best when they explain the structure of the website, provide an inication of where you are within that structure, and do not physically or visually overwhelm a page.
-Visually organizing navigation choices not only tells your audience what types of behavior they can expect from each of their selections, it also helps to seperate navigation from the rest of the page and explain the distinctions between different navigation options.
-The basic role of navigation is to get you to your destination and then quietly slip into the background so that you can do your work.
-Body text lays claim to lots of visual weight on the merits on size alone. Body text with lots of visual weight is good news because we want the content of our web pages to be near the top of our pages visual hierarchy.

Ch. 5

-Communication between people is filtered through personality. Your personality determines how you react and how others react to you. It is how people remember and define you.
-Other terms that refer to the idea of personality are loo and feel, tone and manner, attitude, narrative voice, emotional impact, particular flavor, and unique identity.
-Personality is most quickly communicated through the visual design of a site.
-The personality of a site comes through almost instantly, thereforeyou have to be sure of the message you want to send across.
-All concepts like colors, typeface, imagery, and ideas to mind create a unique look and feel of the site.
-A well designed personality tells the right story, provides distinction, appeals to and engages your audience, and unuifies your site.
-When good information is given a poor presentation, its value may not be appreciated.
-On the web, your site often is your product. Therefore your branding the design, quality, and performance of your product is really your site's personality.
-The personality of your site allows you to get teh correct message to yur audience quicly and efficiently. You have to be sure the story your telling your audience is right for you and right for the audience.
-Presenting your site in an appropriate tone and manner requires some initial decision-making and an nderstanding of how the components of your site contribute to its look and feel. How color, type, visual elements, and interaction can establish an attitude.

Campus Compact Mission Statement

Connecticut Campus Compact is an orginization that has come together to broaden education for students and assisting in community service. The Web Design will be simple, clean, and use the main color scheme as the main Campus Compact page. I will put the main news and events on the first page, and inclued all excess information on the following pages.

Ch. 4

- We need to be aware of how we understand what we see in order to organize information. We begin by recongizing similarites and differences between things, which we group into meaningful catrgories. As a result of this orginization we can quickly glance at information and quickly be drawn to the different groups of information due the groupings.
- These individual elements relate to the whole also. When we relize the relationships between things, we make sense of the whole picture, and unify all the information. The grouping of related elements to establish an informative structure is the essence of visual orginization.
- There are different ways to organize information. Proximity, similarity, continuance, and closure all determine how viewers grou information in a visual presentation.
- We can create visual similarities and differences between objects through the use of color, texture, shape, direction, and size. Visual relationships are the fundamental basis for all systems of visual prginization.
- A visual hierarchy creates a center of interest that attracts the viewer's attention, and creates order and balance. This ordering helps you distinguish which information is most important and least important by the contrast, size, or font.