Top 10 Champions
After reading your classmates top ten lists, select one good and one bad and post here. This is just a little fun!!!
posted by CDK & Technology in the Classroom @ 2:27 PM
TECS 822 Hypermedia & Hypertext
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- Name: CDK & Technology in the Classroom
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My undergrate degree is from Florida State University, and as we all know the undergrate degree is the one that holds the most memories. I grew up in Largo, Florida. How I ended up in Hays Kansas, will forever remain a mystery.
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Top Ten Lists
Top Ten Improvements for My Page
10. Keep tweaking the navigation until a more creative/useful set appears.
9. Refine the graphics, make them more uniform, consistent.
8. Refine the text, arrange better, maybe use smaller text.
7. Somehow create a page that can be scrolled (for my links pages especially).
6. Add a mouse trailer (I think they’re fun-although maybe novice looking).
5. Add a flash intro, opening page needs more pizzazz.
4. Add small digital movies of lesson plans in action.
3. Optional sound buttons on lesson pages, so that each may be read aloud, or not.
2. Gather and categorize more links. You can’t have too many of those.
#1. Maintain, update. Maintain, update. Maintain, update. (Maybe a mailing list in the future?!)
Top Ten Horrible Things on Websites
10. Default colors for background, font, text size, etc. Default is boring.
9. Text in ALL CAPS. Annoying.
8. Animations that can’t be stopped or turned off.
7. Home page music that can’t be stopped or turned off.
6. Broken links, or links that are jumbled up and difficult to navigate.
5. Pop-up ads. You hate them, so does everyone else. Go ahead and spend a little on your page to get rid of them.
4. Text size is way too large.
3. Too many frames, like the information had to be squished all into one page.
2. Pages with a “5-paragraph-essay” feel to them. Make it interesting- this is not paper.
#1. Obnoxious, uncomplimentary colors- backgrounds, text, graphics, etc. Eye sore!
Top 10 things to improve my website
1. I would add some interactivity to my home page. Maybe a roll over on the bridge (not literally) linking it to another page on the site. Just an idea.
2. On my overview page I would like to add a link to another site, offering further information on AT.
3. I would make the “contact” link live, so the visitor does not have to go to the home page to access it.
4. On my assessment page I might use a different picture. I wanted to mix up the digital photos with clipart, but it was difficult to find a clipart picture that was appropriate.
5. I would also look at changing my use of font.
6. On my Implementation page I would definitely like to add some type of graphics or animation to liven it up.
7. On my resource page I would like to change the way the links were aligned.
8. It would be nice to add another page with photos of a classroom where AT was being successfully used.
9. Keep my site updated
10. Add even more links with descriptions
Top 10 things that are horrible on websites
1. A busy, overwhelming home page – definite “turn off”
2. Long scrolling pages
3. Off set pages (off center with empty space)
4. Really long load times
5. Too many bells and whistles
6. Really loud music
7. Flashing and spinning objects at lightning speeds
8. Dead site
9. Outdated information
10.Really strange Font
Improvements
1. I would like to continue to add new resource links.
2. I need to keep photographs up-to-date with current students.
3. Expand the middle school section of my site.
4. Add a section of QuickTime movies.
5. Keep checking for any "dead links."
6. Include student work on the site.
7. Expand the teacher links section to include web sites the teachers make themselves.
8. Links to other schools' resources.
9. Add photographs of student organizations.
10. Add a middle school activities section.
Horrible things on a website
1. Endless advertisements on a web page
2. Scrolling sideways
3. Dead links
4. Graphic intensive
5. Poor color contrast
6. Large animated graphics
7. Fonts too difficult to read
8. Floating ads
9. "Registration" for news stories
10. Pop-ups
Top 10 Improvements for my site:
1. Create better buttons
2. Create a more interesting title section for each page.
3. Make the contact info live
4. Find better pics of Stan
5. Include short videos of students using Stan
6. Include short demo video of what an SP encounter is
7. Offer a form for people interested in becoming an SP to fill out
8. Offer employment paperwork to be filled out online
9. Create rollover pop-up explanations of Stan's features.
10. Have a Flash introductory page of images that take you through a pictoral tour of the centers.
Top 10 Horrible Things:
1. Clashing background and font colors
2. Annoying mouse trailers
3. Bad music that you can't turn off
4. Slow-loading pages
5. Broken links
6. Pop-up ads, flying banners
7. Poor quality graphics
8. Printer unfriendly pages
9. Sites that make you register to read their content
10. Bad clipart and Wordart
Favorite Top 10 - Good
"Add a flash intro, opening page needs more pizzazz." (Valerie)
Favorite Top 10 - Bad
"Flashing and spinning objects at lightning speeds." (Sherry)
Top 10 ways to improve my site
1. Add more pictures
2. Make it more user friendly
3. Add links that will be beneficial to the parents of the kids in my classroom.
4. Create links to town/county information.
5. Have a page for student work.
6. Change my personal info page to a short video people can download and watch
7. Update resume
8. Add a link for my daughter to start her own page
9. More information on my favorites
10. Add a guestbook where people can write comments about my site. Warning. We did this for our school web-site, and I had to disconnect it because someone wrote some innapropriate text on it.
Things I hate on Web-sites.
1. Having to scroll side to side to see the whole page.
2. Links that do not work.
3. Flashy pics that take away from the site.
4. Homepages that are too packed with links, pics, and text
5. POP-UPS. I know that web-sites don't have control over this, but I still hate them.
6. Inappropriate context
7. Loud obnoxious sounds or music
8. Colors that blend together and are hard to read
9. Ugly colors
10 Anything to do with the Denver Broncos!!! This should have been number one.
10 ways to improve sites:
1. Jazz up the background color
2. Add shapes and graphics related to information.
3. Vary fonts throughout the page so it's not boring.
4. Add audio--many people learn better with it.
5. Add instructions(if necessary) for how to use the site. Some sites are rather complicated and you don't know where to go first.
6. Have a jazzy introduction to the website.
7. Include clarifying descriptions. Some sites you can browse through and they may be really cool, but you still aren't sure what they are selling or advertising.
8. Check links frequently to ensure they work.
9. Tweak contents and design. Who doesn't like a new look every once in a while?
10. My personal goal for my website improvement is to make sure I change assignments, due dates, and other information my students may need from it, in a timely manner.
10 ways to destroy sites:
1. Too many colors and fonts that things clash.
2. Overkill on animations, graphics, or audio that the brain is on sensory overload.
3. Scrolling required to see anything pertinent on the site.
4. Scrolling to long unnecessary lengths. Break up the information, I'll stay interested longer.
5. Lots of links that do not load.
6. Audio that plays really loud and no volume control to fix it.
7. Unbalanced content on the screen.
8. Fonts that are unreadable.
9. Way outdated information.
10. Log-in or registrations for minor information. Why must we give out our life story to read an article?
If I understood the question correctly, here is what I think about the best and the worst.
Best:
www.sithsense.com/flash.htm
I really enjoyed the effects and the fact that it has Vader and you trying to defeat him just makes it more appealing to me. I am a Star Wars fan if you had not guessed.
Worst:
www.donkeydonkey.com
The name intrigued me at first, and then the site just did nothing. Goes nowhere and seems to be a waste of space on a server.
I thought the best site was www.apple.com. It has a bunch of information but yet the information is easy to find. The index page is not overwhelming and the desing is very pleasing.
I thought the worse one out of the top ten list was www.bbhighway.com. It is way too cluttered. I wouldn't waste much time trying to find what I'm looking for on this page. Just not appealing at all.
TOP TEN THINGS TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE COOL
1.FLASH, BECAUSE ITS COOL
2.USE IMAGES FOR LINKS
3.INCLUDE SOME VIDEO
4.USE VARIOUS COLORS
5.HAVE SOME TYPE OF THEME
6.HAVE TRANSITIONAL BUTTONS/LINKS
7.HAVE A HEADER
8.INCLUDE SOME AUDIO
9.KEEP IT UPDATED
10.MAKE IT EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND USE
TOP TEN THINGS THAT MAKE A WEBSITE SUCK--sorry for the harsh language
1.OFFER FREE TICKETS TO KC CHEIFS FOOTBALL GAMEFOR THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE--GO BRONCOS
2.A NEVER ENDING LOOP OF TELETUBBIES THEME
3.OFFER FREE TICKETS TO A BRITTANY SPEARS CONCERT
4.HAVE A SITE FULL OF PICS OF BILL CLINTON AND MONICA LEWINSKY
5.A LOOPING WELCOME FLASH THAT NEVER ENDS
6.HAVE A VIDEO OF ROSANNE BARR SINGING NATIONAL ANTHEM AT SAN DIEGO PADRES BASEBALL GAME
7.A SITE DEDICATED TO DAVID LETTERMAN FANS--ALL 3 OF THEM
8.A PAGE THAT IS ALL PINK
9.PICTURES FROM EDGE TO EDGE OF ALF
10.A WEBSITE THAT LOOPS THE AUDIO “I’LL BE BACK”
I think people are a little confused like me. Did you want a top ten website or a top ten good thing and bad thing?? Here are both.
Great website:
http://www.taylormadegolf.com/
cool website, awesome motion and buttons
Good Idea:
have some Flash
Bad Idea:
Long scrolling pages
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