A popular trend in jewelry is the rope necklace.
This graphic and often colorful piece adds flair to any basic outfit.
Want to get the look? Try ShopJeen.com!
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
I want to create an interactive site that helps users learn and remember how to remove stains from their clothing. I feel that if I create a site that helps people actually learn and commit this information to memory they will be able to take the right steps before the stains set in.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Young adults, 18-32, who are learning how to do laundry and know how to salvage their clothing incase they do have stains.
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
There will be video tutorials, a step by step guide, some graphic illustrations and quizzes to test whether the user has really learned the material. There will be a print out with a list of the instructions as well. I was also suggested to create a persona for this blog. I would like to use an animal for the persona, possibly a bear or octopus. Something to keep it more gender neutral.
SIMILAR SITES
Most of the websites about stain removal are not interactive. They simply list the steps. The website that had the most interactivity and was well designed was the Tide Stain Brain site. I like that they use icons as well as different ways to view the categories. However, like the other sites the instructions are just a couple lines of text. Another thing that I noticed about their site is that they recommended their products but I would like to create a site that offers ways of stain removal using already owned household items rather than specific items you have to purchase.
http://www.tide.com/StainBrain
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/stain-buster/
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/stain_frame.htm
WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION:
this past week I have further looked into how to integrate the RSS feeds into the site. so far in testing certain RSS feed programs, we aren’t quite achieving the look & format that we wanted. the team and I have also considered some options if the RSS feeds just aren’t sufficient enough, possibly just handpicking & reblogging particular entries or even writing our own. on another note i began to research how we can create a calender/events page and how to integrate certain twitter feeds.
HOW TO ENSURE REACHING THE TARGET AUDIENCE:
our site is geared towards people around the ages of 16 - 35, who want to learn about fun & interesting events going on in the city. to make sure we reach them our team can:
+ CHECK to see via, social networks, which events people are talking/excited about
+ CREATE a site that is visually appealing, one that is modern, fun & hip
+ TEST the site & ASK for opinions of peers
+ PROMOTE the site, by creating a separate twitter & facebook page for the site (possibly?)
Our team, Alpha Dogs, all agreed to create a website in which people could find out about upcoming events happening in San Francisco. Much of the content for this site will be resourced from certain RSS feeds.
This week our project manager assigned the technical directors to research how to properly integrate the RSS feeds into our website. I had no prior knowledge about RSS, Really Simple Syndication, so it was interesting to learn about it.
Upon researching I learned there are many programs that you can download which enables you to take convert RSS feeds and place them in your site. I am still working out how I would be able to get multiple RSS feeds and converge them into one cohesive looking site.
CUT N’ PASTE JAVASCRIPT RSS FEED
This site generates JavaScript so that you would be able to input the RSS into your site.
ADD RSS NEWS FEEDS
This site provides a tool that would instead use PHP rather than JavaScript.
The technical directors were also asked to look for sites whose RSS feed we could use. Here are a list of the sites that I thought would be helpful:
This fall semester, I am currently taking the Intermediate Web Design class. Among the ten students, we were randomly split into two groups. Each group will create a hopefully intricate, extensive & complete web site of their choosing. My group, group name TBD, consists of:
SAM ALEGRIA // PROJECT MANAGER
TYLER SOUZA // CONTENT MANAGER
SUSAN LEI // ART DIRECTOR
RICHARD NAVARRO // TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
I will be the co-technical director.
This role requires:
+ good communication to translate & implement the group’s ideas
+ creation of overall web development framework
+ researching of codes & other programming needs
+ creation of the HTML/CSS & other coding required for the site
+ troubleshooting & testing of the site
Problems that could occur are:
- time management
- the difficulty of prospective projects
- the lack of programming knowledge
To be honest being a technical director wasn’t the role i was hoping for, but I do look forward to pushing myself in a category that I am uncomfortable with and see how much knowledge and growth I can attain after the project is completed. Also, this is the first time I’ve attempted to work as a group on a website, so it should be interesting to witness & experience the group dynamics. I sincerely want my team to succeed so I will try my best to do whatever is necessary. I realize this project is going to be difficult but I am excited & willing to take up the challenge.
Also, here is the link to our required reading, Web Style Guide.
