Assignment 6 - Fundamentals of Web Design

Fundamentals of Web Design
Due by Midnight on February 16, 2001
Fundamentals - 10 points - 5 points per site
STAIR - Not needed for this assignment


The goal of this assignment is to review 2 websites and critique them. Answer the following questions about each site. You do not need to make your answers long nor do you need to spend hours at each site. Limit yourself to 20-30 minutes per site. In that 20 minutes you should be able to answer the questions. The questions are:

  1. What is the name and web address of the site?
  2. What is the problem that the site is attempting to address?
  3. Who is the audience?
  4. How does this site use graphics?
  5. How does this site use color?
  6. What do you like about the site? (What is your definition of like?)
  7. What don't you like about the site? (What is your definition of dislike?)
  8. What changes would you make?
  9. How easy is it to access and navigate?
  10. How long did it take you to upload and how fast is your modem/Internet connection?

The Websites:

www.paulhager.org
and
www.rockman.com

The assignment is to be called design.txt and then ftp'ed to phoenix server. Don't forget to use carriage returns so that you can make pretty paragraphs and easy to read text.


Special thanks to Leanne Burrow, Andy Harris, Bob Molnar, Paula Trefun, and Jennifer Stewart for their input, inspiration, content, code, lessons, and giving me the opportunity to boldly going where I have never gone before. Thanks! - Margaret Lion

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