10b, c, d & 8c
Feedback recieved & action taken(i)
My own evaluation of prototype
This is by no means a finished solution. Obviously it does not meet any of the functional requirements. I felt it right and proper to disclose very early-on, a sample of my work to the client to give them confidence that I am actually working on their product and to involve them at this critical stage of establishing the basic theme and the user's navigational experience.
The feedback provided below turned out to be invaluable.
Informal evaluative feedback from client
Below is a transcript of the conversation that I had with main stakeholder regarding the navigation.
- [28/03/2007 23:20:47] David Hollands says: the hwec website's coming along
slowly but surely
- [28/03/2007 23:20:50] 袁志榮 says: hehe
- [28/03/2007 23:21:00] 袁志榮 says: might be worth writing some scripts to automate tasks
- [28/03/2007 23:21:05] David Hollands says: ...keep changing my mind about stuff
- [28/03/2007 23:21:11] 袁志榮 says: ah
- [28/03/2007 23:21:37] David Hollands says: does the server support SSIs?
- [28/03/2007 23:22:06] 袁志榮 says: don't think so - it really is very basic (but reliable) hosting
- [28/03/2007 23:22:40] David Hollands says: most servers do.. what software is it.. i think apache have it running as default
- [28/03/2007 23:22:52] David Hollands says: server side includes (SSI)
- [28/03/2007 23:23:13] 袁志榮 says: it's apache, but I tried messing with SSI before and found it wasn't supported in the basic package
- [28/03/2007 23:23:20] David Hollands says: ah
- [28/03/2007 23:24:24] David Hollands says: i've pretty much finished the header and top nav
- [28/03/2007 23:24:33] 袁志榮 says: cool
- [28/03/2007 23:25:18] David Hollands sent file "navigation.png" to members of this chat
- [28/03/2007 23:26:15] 袁志榮 says: cool
- [28/03/2007 23:29:20] David Hollands says: there will have to be a sub menu cos there's quite abit of content
- [28/03/2007 23:29:30] 袁志榮 says: indeed
- [28/03/2007 23:30:46] David Hollands says: i'll be sending u the first prototype in a mo
- [28/03/2007 23:31:02] 袁志榮 says: cool
- [28/03/2007 23:31:05] David Hollands says: it's likely to change abit!!
- [28/03/2007 23:31:11] David Hollands says: u happy with the colours?
- [28/03/2007 23:31:11] 袁志榮 says: I would imagine so
- [28/03/2007 23:31:44] 袁志榮 says: well, will have to see the whole thing in context - hard to tell otherwise
- [28/03/2007 23:31:51] David Hollands says: i sorta based it on the notice board
- [28/03/2007 23:31:56] David Hollands says: yer
- [28/03/2007 23:32:12] David Hollands says: urm.. i'll just send u what ive done
- [28/03/2007 23:32:17] David Hollands says: the codes all messy
- [28/03/2007 23:32:18] 袁志榮 says: k
- [28/03/2007 23:32:28] David Hollands says: haven't been bothered to clean it all up yet
- [28/03/2007 23:32:36] 袁志榮 says: that's fine
- [28/03/2007 23:32:49] 袁志榮 says: work in progress :)
- [28/03/2007 23:34:23] David Hollands sent file "hwec.zip" to members of this chat
- [28/03/2007 23:34:53] 袁志榮 says: sky's upload is pretty nifty
- [28/03/2007 23:35:01] 袁志榮 says: 786kbps
- [28/03/2007 23:35:11] 袁志榮 says: cool - quite efficient
- [28/03/2007 23:36:08] David Hollands says: everything has to be extracted to work
- [28/03/2007 23:37:14] 袁志榮 says: heh, it really is just the header :)
- [28/03/2007 23:37:23] 袁志榮 says: standard gibberish text :)
- [28/03/2007 23:37:24] David Hollands says: yep
- [28/03/2007 23:37:25] David Hollands says: lol
- [28/03/2007 23:37:42] David Hollands says: yer thanks to the lipsum generator
- [28/03/2007 23:37:47] 袁志榮 says: hehe
- [28/03/2007 23:38:22] 袁志榮 says: be interesting to see what the working footer looks like :)
- [28/03/2007 23:39:34] David Hollands says: the header looks nice in 800 x 600 too
- [28/03/2007 23:40:08] 袁志榮 says: the drop down menu could be an issue in the lower resolutions though
- [28/03/2007 23:41:24] David Hollands says: well... catering for 800x600 is sufficient i think and it works fine in that
- [28/03/2007 23:41:32] David Hollands says: but its upto u
- [28/03/2007 23:41:57] 袁志榮 says: well, one good test is to see how it looks in lynx
- [28/03/2007 23:43:06] David Hollands says: i used XHTML and CSS the nav bar is just a glorified unordered list
- [28/03/2007 23:43:41] 袁志榮 says: as long as it makes sense
- [28/03/2007 23:46:15] David Hollands says: no, javascript doesn't work in lynx!!!
- [28/03/2007 23:46:32] 袁志榮 says: where you using javascript?
- [28/03/2007 23:46:36] David Hollands says: the local links doesn't go
- [28/03/2007 23:46:43] 袁志榮 says: ah...
- [28/03/2007 23:47:00] David Hollands says: to make the selected destination go
- [28/03/2007 23:47:13] 袁志榮 says: just add a go button
- [28/03/2007 23:47:33] David Hollands says: yer.. i could hide it from normal users
- [28/03/2007 23:48:11] 袁志榮 says: yup
- [28/03/2007 23:50:14] David Hollands says: have u still got ie 6?
- [28/03/2007 23:50:21] 袁志榮 says: nope
- [28/03/2007 23:50:46] David Hollands says: i'll havta check it tomorrow at college
- [28/03/2007 23:51:00] David Hollands says: ie 6 doesn't always appreciate css
- [28/03/2007 23:51:07] 袁志榮 says: true
- [28/03/2007 23:51:09] David Hollands says: correctly
- [28/03/2007 23:57:58] David Hollands says: i might to a site map in the footer
- [28/03/2007 23:58:20] David Hollands says: well in three quarters of it
- [28/03/2007 23:58:34] 袁志榮 says: hmmm... - a whole site map?
- [28/03/2007 23:58:47] David Hollands says: well pretty much
- [28/03/2007 23:58:56] David Hollands says: i'll columnise it
- [28/03/2007 23:59:35] 袁志榮 says: well, keep in mind how big (in terms of file size) the file becomes
- [28/03/2007 23:59:44] David Hollands says: basically just another glorified list
- [29/03/2007 00:00:24] David Hollands says: will do
- [29/03/2007 00:01:46] David Hollands says: have u heard of geo tags??
- [29/03/2007 00:02:58] 袁志榮 says: vaguely - people leave the location of where they're from on your site
- [29/03/2007 00:04:25] David Hollands says: nearly, i found a cool mozilla add-on ages ago... basically u stick ur longitude and latitude in some meta tag and if people have this add-on -it links to the geoURL site
- [29/03/2007 00:05:17] David Hollands says: http://geourl.org/
- [29/03/2007 00:05:29] 袁志榮 says: ah
- [29/03/2007 00:06:45] 袁志榮 says: By the way, I think you should have a section containing the google calender. Seeing as it will immediately inform visitors of up and coming events it should be pretty important maybe warranting it's own heading.
- [29/03/2007 00:06:59] David Hollands says: Do think we should have it in place of the 'Bookstall & Library' section - I was wondering what we could actually put in there
- [29/03/2007 00:07:24] 袁志榮 says: yeah, sounds good. Right, I'm off to bed. nn
Action required:
I must replace the 'Bookstall & Library' section with a 'Calendar of Events' section ready for the the second prototype. A effective footer must be created to give the content body a good context and composition. I have had the go ahead to try and include the site map in the footer of each page. The second prototype will try this out.
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