Thursday, October 6, 2011

Cool Websites, Man

Chris Hoertel
Another really cool website! I would like to know how these people are creating these! I liked how the links were organized, it might be even better if they were aligned differently on the page. Just cause they are circular buttons and could go anywhere, but I'm not sure if the text has a sequence which is why you would want to keep that format. Couldn't find the text, but I think the examples would have a lot of rhetoric elements to them.

Sara E Johnston
Sara's website is AWESOME! Everything is really well connected and it looks very professional! :  ) Hope I can figure out Dreamweaver to do something like this!!!! Really cool! The videos were great multimedia devices and are packed with rhetoric devices. I just couldn't get to the text, which was the only problem, because with such a great website and examples I would have liked to read her commentary. LOVE THE WEBSITE! and great examples! (Good topic!)

Nate Lindahl
As soon as I get to his project 2 page I can tell he knows how to produce a functional website and that it has content that I can easily access. It is really well organized and covers so much information in depth! I love how I don't have to scroll down and can just click links. What might have been a better idea is to have the five sites being examined open up into a new page or tab, just from me clicking on them that's what I would have liked, but it is easy for a user to create that option themselves.
The content in a chart format is really smart. I know what I did and I have sort bulk paragraphs, but this method encourages readers to actually read all of it and he is getting his point across. He is expecting his audience to be knowledgeable (to some degree) about what he is talking about. What I learned about his content is that you really can come up with something for every rhetoric device and mode, even if that just means mentioning how it was not used. Sometimes the lack of something is just as important as something else being there. He did a brilliant job with organization and sequence! Overall a really great project. A+++++

Conclusion:
There are much better ways to organize my content, to make it more user friendly and not so..."oh great block text" ...boring! Nate did a great job showing a different way to convey text.
I really want to learn how these three used Dreamweaver! I've spent days on it, messing around and playing with different things. The only reason I got as far as I did was because of English 300 and I still ended up stumped and resorted to using a Photoshop image. I understand how it works, but need some major guidance...maybe videos or something. These websites are great and very appealing!!!

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