Note 4 for E-Commerce

Goals:

Identify the elements of Good Web Design

Identify how to test for Web usability and make your site more usable.

Watch & Read:

What happens when you have a bad web page design!

My Web design Advice is to Keep it Simple and Special (KISS)

Joyce did a good job documenting the design process

Color Theory & software to help you decided on colors or use Design by Joyce's Colors Tables.

Top 10 mistakes of Shopping Cart design (Usability)

Dreamweaver Site (to help you with using Dreamweaver)

FTP Access to your E-commerce Space

Note: The host address is
e-commerce.pvc.maricopa.edu

Your UserID is your First Initial and your Last Name
example: Jon Storslee is jstorslee

Your Webspace is located at http://e-commerce.pvc.maricopa.edu/cis235

Review the following

Web Usability websites: (The art and science of making a Websites easy to use!)

The Best way to find out if your site is usable is to have a focus group (comprised of customers) look for your product and the information you want them to find. Usablenet, US Government and Useit.com have great tutorials on usability and accessibility

Web Usability Companies you can hire are 37signals, Clicktracks, and Jakob Nielsen's Useit.com

Homework:

You should Read Chapters 5 in the Everything Book.

I want you to post a proposal for your website: The proposal needs to have a flow chart, sample page and intro page layout (See CIS 233 for ideas for your proposal)

Post your review of the Pastic Surgery Portal Boardguaranteed.com & Phoenix Magnetics and make suggestions for improvements!

Post your definition of Usability and the major points that make a website Usable vs unUsable

Reminder: Post your articles on Blackboard under the Weekly Articles on the Discussion Board Section.

Final Step:

Review in your mind everything we covered in class and remember to cover it again before you go to bed so your mind to process this information while you sleep.