Chapter 7 — Powerpoint Slides

• Immediacy
• Easier and less time-consuming to “Broadcast” or “publish”
• Flexiblility
• Web can handle a wide variety of mediums and new forms
• Mobility
• appears anywhere and everywhere we happen to be
• Permanency
• content is stored automatically and permanently w/out fear of deterioration.
• Capacity
• Broadcast: limited by time
• Print: limited by space
• Web: ability to keep and show huge amounts of text and image material.
• Interactivity
• Linking: another way in which visitors can interact with what they are seeing.
• Speed
• Bad websites: don’t give inmformation quickly or if links don’t update instantly
• Visual logic
• What site’s about should be obvious at first glance, as should what it contains and who produced it.
• Simple organization and navigation
• Well-organized website = where visitor can figure out where to find info
• Layering info is key
• Links!
• Depth
• The difficulty of website development is the continuous amount of the info necessary to sustain the site and organizing and presenting the info in a way that allows visitors to access and use it.
• Keep in balance w/other important factors
• News
• Not every website is a news site, but almost all sites need to present new and updated information
• Static site: one that changes so little that visitors see the same thing each time