Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Finally an interesting and somewhat useful chapter

I know. I am shocked too. When the author started talking about the T. Rowe site and who wrote it, and how the company was started, and changed and, blah, blah, blah; I started thinking here we go again, another chapter filled with useless information. Then all of the sudden, the author started talking about the production process, and the old website, versus the new and, how the changes improved the function of the site. It actually made sense and I found some information I could use. I really like the distinction he made between customization and personalization. I have been thinking about my website and what I would like to do with it in the future. I was thinking I would like to make it more personalized for my users. But it turns out that I want to make it customizable, so that the user can determine what is important to them and what they want simplified. I was also wondering if I should have a redundant menu option at the top of my main page. Turns out that the top menu is my global navigation, and it appears on every page so the user can navigate from one page to any other without going to the home page. I know this sounds funny to those who are old hands at this, but it was news to me and something I would have overlooked for sure.
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4 comments:

  1. MontanaFebruary 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM

    I thought this chapter was pretty interesting too. I have to admit that I didn't find as much of the information as useful as you did, but I did relate it to the web site I am designing, like you did. I wanted to make my web site more customizable also, but I don't know if I will ever do it. It sounds too hard, and I guess I'm too lazy. :)

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2010 at 2:12 PM

    You have such a broad knowledge of web design
    and relate your understanding well to other areas of interst, such as your artwork. It is always intersting to hear you connect things in a different way.

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  3. florence08February 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM

    hi morgan,
    glad to know you made the distinction between personalization vs. customization, important features of a user-centric site. yes, there will be more of these types of info highlighted in the different chapters we will read for the next couple weeks... all of which focus on different types of informational sites and i hope you guys can get bits and pieces that you can totally adapt in your own projects. keep reading!

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  4. florence08February 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM

    hi morgan,

    i missed your blog for this week.. the postponed chapter 15 reading (not your group topic).

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