Week12

In class today we had in class work time and worked on our presentations. we signed up to need with Pannafino and worked while we waited. I did not get a change to go so i will be going next class.

Week 11

We read a section in our books about wire frames and were asked to create wireframes for our sites according to all of our findings. My over all findings lead to me having less on the home page cause the navigation was the biggest issue.So this is what i came up with

The top one is the homepage wire frame and the bottom is the sub page.

Week 11 homework

Ambler Township

                                                                  East Norriton Township

                                                                    Skippack Township

West Pottsgrove Township

Upper Merion Township

Week 10 Out of class Persona

We were asked to create a persona for the user of our websites.  I choice to make my persona about a middle ages women with children that lives within this community. After the phone call to the township building I realized that the general person visiting this sight would be anyone in the community generally an adult looking for information about where they live. This is why I choice to create a mother who is a school consoler. This is the first draft of my persona.

Week 10 Homework

This is the finished product of my site map. I reorganized the spacing and made the map flow better. I added a key which I did not have before and then I added my title. In class, we were asked to call the company or people in charge of the website we were working with. I left a message on the machine of the township building after a few calls and got a hold of the women in charge. Mrs. Walsh was were helpful and informed me that the users of this website were business owners and people within the community. There was not a specific age range but anyone and everyone who needed to obtain general informations an rules or regulations for businesses or families who wanted information about the community.

week 10In class

Today in class, we went over our site maps with in small groups and they gave us feed back on how to fix them. For mine I was told that color would help make it more visually appealing. I needed to work on the spacing cause there were large blank areas and that I would be careful of the size and spacing of the text. So when we had time to work on our maps I began fixing all of these issues.

Week 9 out of class

This is my finished site map for my website After class i connected all of the boxes and changes fonts and sizes the words are a little tight I'm not sure if it works.

Week 9 a

1.0 Homepage

1.1Administration
     1.1.1 Board of Supervisors
             1.1.1.1 Board of Supervisors Adgenda
             1.1.1.2 Board of Supervisors Minutes
     1.1.2 Administration Department
             1.1.2.1 Lowerprovidence Township Meetings
             1.1.2.2 Meetings and Adgenda
                     1.1.2.2 Minutes
     1.1.3 Profiles
             1.1.3.1Phone and Contact
1.2Living in the Community
     1.2.1 Township Ordinance
     1.2.2Zoning
            1.2.2.1 Zoning Appeal
     1.2.3 Sewer Athority
     1.2.4 Community Development
            1.2.4.1Buisness Development
            1.2.4.2 Subdivision and Land Development
     1.2.5 Code Enforcement
     1.2.6 Public Works
1.3 In the Community
     1.3.1 Police Department
     1.3.2 Fire Marshall
     1.3.3 Parks and Recreation
     1.3.4 Emergency Management
1.4 School Districts
      1.4.1 Methacton School District
            1.4.1.1 Methacton School District Meeting Info
                    1.4.1.1.1 Adgenda
                    1.4.1.1.2 Meetings
1.5 Quick links
     1.5.1 Resources
           1.5.1.1 Township Newsletter
           1.5.1.2 Community Alerts
           1.5.1.3 Lower Providence Township Facebook
           1.5.1.4 Local Weather
           1.5.1.5 Local Traffic and news
                   1.5.2.1Press Release
                   1.5.3.1Community Relations
           1.5.1.6 Local Events
     1.5.2 Events
     1.5.3 Calander
     1.5.4 Publication
1.6 Finance
     1.6.1 2013 Budget
   



I choice to arrange my site map like this because i looked at the information that was grouped together most often from all of our card sorting. Administration and living in the community were the most common. I renamed then to accommodated some of the cards that did not fit in a specific place. In the administration section I split it into two parts because in my sorting a number of people did this. School district was also one that was a common repeat. This one was the most common of all the sorting i think this is because the titles are all very similar. Finace was paired with 2013 budget which makes since to be but im unsure of what category this chould go alone with
    

Week 8b out of class Card Sorting activity

In class on Wednesday we did a series of different card sorting activities. Three people took a look at our cards and sorted them in the best way that they could giving them different categories for each group then over the weekend we had people do a closed card sorting activies where the participants looked through the cards and sorted then named the categories. The results to the closed card sorting activity were 2 people used the same catagories. and three people had the same administrations catagories. This helped me realize that adimistartion would probally be an important thing to take a look at and have as a main catagorie for our final project

For the closed card sorting with categories I had five categories which were the following Administration, Community Guidelines , Community Resources Meetings school district and Quick links. The first person who sorted in the closed sorting actually added another category of community Data.

The next person for the open sorting also added another category of within the community. I liked this category she put things in her like the fire department and the public works. I thought this worked well because it includes parks and recreation which was something I was having difficult finding a place for.

My final participant for this did not add any new categories but they had a totally new view on some of the cards and where they went.

I looked into the closed card sorting into more depth and this is the results of all three.

It was interesting to see the sections In dark blue are the ones that are exactly the same. The admissions, Community Guidelines and Meeting categories have a lot of similarities. This was something that was not questioned as much as the rest of them. Quick links was all over the place having a few that were constant and a few that were not as much. Lower providence township facebook was put in the quick link categories by every participant. 

Week 8 in and Out of class Card sorting activity

 These are the pictures from our card sorting describe the thought process behind all of the students and other people and the group that are made from the card sorting process.

Week 8 In class

We conducted a card sorting activity where we had three people create catagories for our set of cards. These cards reflect what is on our websites that we audited.

week 7 b Website audit

What content do I have:

The content that I have come from the township of lower providence This sight is full of information including town meeting minutes to school board information to things happening in the community. This sight is hard to follow there are a lot of links and you do not always know where to go with them some links take you to the same place. This content come from people in charge of the township and other people who have a large role in it. 

How is it and will it be organized:

I think that there needs to be less busyness on the first home page. There needs to be better grouping and less catagories right up front. I think that the best way to organize it would be to group the broud catagoris on the home page and them have them take you to additional links on other pages.

Who do you think creates it:

I think that a secretary from the township or so sort of webmaster is in charge of updating the content each time there is a meeting but also people at the township building are in charge of arranging the content.

Where does it live:

This website has many outside links so some of it lives on other site and some of it lives with in the community cause the content is specific to them and no one else.

Week 7 in class

In class we went over our websites that we chose most of the class including me chose websites that were to little information or were just poorly designed not necessarily organized. 
For my project i choice to re navigate my townships website. The website had a lot of information and was hard to follow and understand. There are alot of kinks that link you to somewhere else.

week 6 out of class

The first website that i found that was poorly designed was this one. In order to find where you wanted to go there were a lot of clicks that had to take place. It was just not that it was hard to navigate it was also not very visually appealing.  The website might be hard to reorganize because it has so much information because its all about buying and selling houses. 

http://www.homes.com/Real_Estate/PA/City/LANCASTER/

Another site that i found i believe was poorly designed because their is no visual hierarchy and it is not lay ed out for a customer to be able to follow it. Its also boring the pictures are the same on each page and im not even sure what the sight is for.

This is a local restaurant that is in the area and it is not a large website but it is not deigned well it has a very distracted back ground. The typography is not well chosen and i believe that there is a better way or them to arrange all of this information. It is not hard to navigate but it is just lacking in content. the one page that has dinner looks like a picture of the menu and the other one were typed out and it is was not consistent.

http://www.redroselancaster.com/menuApps.html

Week 6 In class

This was our final presentation to the class. We got some good feed back from the group just some small things they enjoyed our type face we choice and they liked the color scheme. They did not think that the lightest green is easy on the eyes. They suggested if the background was a little bit lighter it wouldn't be as difficult to see. they said that the typeface we used worked well easy to see. One comment someone made was that the spacing for our mapping was off this was disappointing to me because i was the one who worked on that and i thought that i did a thorough job.Heather and I presented to our group and we talked about our process and outcome of our design referring to the mapping we also talked about our choice in color scheme and typefaces then we talked about our research and how we talked to different players and interviewed them and also watched baseball clips and looked up basic rules on the computer.

Week 5 Out of class

So what we did to finish up our project was fine tuning the details. Kate and I spent a few hours in and out of class changing sizing and lines and everything on out actually flow charts. It was very long process but i think that it did a great job over all and it def worked well by the end. All of that small stuff is what makes the project consistent. Megan and Nicole went out to the store and got it printed when we were completely finished.

Week 5 In class

In class on the 25th we had in class work time and we had a critique with every group. Each team took turns talking about our full sized black and white print out but we were not allowed to say anything. They gave their comments and we listened. So over all the biggest issues that all four groups came up with fix the main key (add diamond make smaller) make call out for scoreboard, fix arrows, add colors to the boxes, make title a little smaller, move play by play-key to the side make field image smaller, fix connections, add informations to the top, do not go thought field with mapping, take out diamond shape field-description, clarify description, add a description, change description. There were more suggestions but these were the most important things to us that we decided to change. After our critique we spent the rest of the class working on making those changes.  Then we printed out our full color print out to see what it looked like. The picture above is our in color printout.

week 4 in class

In class today we worked on getting our project together everyone had been working on a different part and I took all the parts and put it all together. we added the color scheme and we changed fonts around. I then added the images into out project. It is really coming together and I am really proud of the work my group has done.