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Web Site Design Committee
VPAST Lecture
April 12, 2000
First Generation Web Site
• October 1995
• Strict navigation
• Real content is two
clicks down
• 17 useful links
• What is under each
button?
• Missing information
Second Generation Web Site
• March 1998
• Promoted 4 links of
each second-level
page
• Much content is one
click down
• 51 links
• Busy appearance
• Second-level pages
bypassed
Third Generation Objectives
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Cleaner appearance
More information intense
Stronger external focus
Reasonable load time
Ready for review by May 1, 2000
Design Compromises
• Clean appearance vs. information
intense
• External focus vs. internal focus
• Impressive graphics vs. load time
• Individual vision vs. committee design
Dynamic HTML Popups
• Dynamic popup windows give a clean
appearance and more links
• Popups can overlay other content and have
links
• Loaded as part of the original HTML page
• “Mouseover” can activate -- no click needed
• Not separate browser windows
• Additional development time and testing
• Redundant versions needed
Evolution of Link Organization
• Generation 1: Topic menus that lead to
departments
• Generation 2: Additional subject-based
menus that cross department
boundaries
• Generation 3: Addition of audiencebased menus
External Focus
• Don’t know or care about the
organizational structure
• Look by service, topic, or audience
• Additional directory: majors
• Additional directory: services
Demonstration
New Features
• Clean appearance
• Increased
information intensity
• Audiences on home
page
• Popup menus
• Additional external
focus
• Reduced server
load
Features Carried Over
• Multiple access
methods
• Directories on home
page
• Search on home
page
• Rotating graphics
• Event graphics
• Text link
• Consistent
navigation with
second-level pages
• Fits in small
windows (640x480
pixels)
• Reasonable load
time
• Changing date
Features Avoided
• No plugins
• No Java (does use
JavaScript)
• Browser version
requirements
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No cover page
No animation
No sound
No frames
Feedback
• Committee web page:
www.ksu.edu/committees/webdesign
• Mail to [email protected].
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