Final Paper Prototype

So this week and next, we are creating our final paper prototype. We met with Melissa earlier in the week to ask for advice on all of the documents we have submitted so far. We learned a great deal from the meeting about all of the documents we have produced this semester. We also learned that our sitemap had too many layers and needs to be refined to a less chaotic structure. We plan on revising the sitemap as well as collaborating on our individual documents to produce a final, robust product.

Wireframes

We are finally starting to get involved with the actual design of the site. This week we learned about wireframes and their importance in laying things out the way we want them. Like a lot of other things, it all comes back to logical organization of the information we have. We have split up the site into some of the important pages. I'm doing the home page, Mike is doing the searchable housing page, Andrew is doing the Current Events and Jessie is doing the Donate page.

Site map and Wireframe

Hey everyone. I think I finally got a hold of this blog thing after 8 or so weeks. You have to post, then comment on the post, So everyone make sure you comment! Hopefully doing that will make a big difference. We have the site map and wireframe coming up, so we should meet soon (it's due next tuesday, so we have to do it before then). I looked over the assignment guidelines and it shouldn't be a big problem, I think we could knock it out in a couple hours. We just need to develop our content!

hey guys

hey, it's Mike. Just giving you an update about the project. We did the card-sorting activities on Thurs-Tuesday. What we have so far is actually very good, we just need more content! We need to start thinking more about not only what the headings and subheadings will be, but also what actual content will be on those pages (pictures, blogs, summaries, information). Other than that, it's coming along great. We got caught up on the content inventory and client & audience analysis, so that's good, and I think we're back on track. I actually missed class today, so if anyone gets a chance could you fill me in on what happened? thanks.

Michael Fisher

updates on group things

Hey everybody, We have a lot to do. Given our changed project status, we are a bit behind, but we can catch up quick. We met with Sharon from BBHC last week, and got some info we could use for our client and audience analysis. The Client & Audience analysis is going to be due tonight, as well as the content inventory check. We know what inventory will be contained on the site, we just need to combine our ideas to get a good list together. Coming up Thursday we have the card-sorting exercises, so be prepared!

Oct-12-2010 Blog

Today's class is about labeling. After this class we know about how to label links on the a website.
There are not a sentence, and it is a phrase which can make users understand where they are going to and get what they want.

This is the notes:

·         Components of IA systems

o   Organization Systems

o   Labeling Systems

o   Navigation Systems

o   Searching  Systems

·         Label

o   Form of representation

o    A way to represent larger chunk of information

o   Not using sentence to label a link

o   Phrases

o   Ice berg

o   Two formats

§  Textual

§  Iconic

o   Used to name

§  Contextual links

·         Link in the body of your text

§  Headings

·         Main heading (article)

§  Navigation system

§  Index terms

·         Metadata

Working on the project

After having meeting and discussion from last week,
we planed finishing every part of our project over the weekend.

There are three sections to do:

• Section 1 Client Analysis 
• Section 2 Audience Analysis
• Section 3 Research Process

We are planning to combine all of  our works together in order to finish our project.

new project "Homeward Bound"

and I'm not talking the movie. Gears have shifted, and the tides have changed (Sorry for the late post, completely slipped my mind). Our new project is for the "Homeward Bound" initiative. In this blog i will post the notes, and our next meeting time.

Homeward Bound in IT.org

Goal – Increase efficiency in providing services & reduce duplication

Bringing Together:

                Social Work

                ****Big Bend Homeless coalition (lots of materials will come from this site)

                City/ government agencies

. Information about what’s going on with homeless:

                What organizations envolved

                                Contact information

                State of the homeless situation

. Homeless should be able to make appointments with organization on website

. Information sharing between agencies

                Ex. Available housing

General Public-

-                State of homelessness (available volunteering opportunities)

-                Contact info for organizations working on issue

-                Who is homeless? Why? (De-stigmatize people to the homeless)

Community activists; faith-based organizations.

Homeless Population-

-                Services available

-                (Make the website accessible to the homeless. Accommodate their possible lack of tech knowledge)

City/State

-                Funding and Grants

-                Don’t put Tallahassee all through website (county/state is also involved)

Service Agency Interaction-

-          Housing available

-          Appointments  

This is pretty much what I got. Tyler, if you have anything else, feel free to post it.

Our next meeting is Monday October 03 at 1pm. Thanks guys.

Meeting Time

From last week, we set our meeting time to get full of prepare on every project we are assigned.
The project plan is done. Therefore, we will stick to it and able to finish our work on time as well.
Next project is Client & Audience Analysis, and its due date is on 9/28 . Since we know that it needs a lot work to be done, we can start to assign our team members to have work to do. From the result on last project, everybody did take responsibility to finish it. I believe we can do it, and be better and better.

Project Plan

Today Tyler and I got together to do our part of the project plan. Things are coming together, and I'm already getting ideas of what the page is going to start looking like. With our first meeting coming up, I'd like everyone to post questions you think we should ask Sharon. I have dealt with this web design situation before, and we don't want to slowly trickle questions into our client, they usually don't have time to field on the fly.

My questions would be:
.Are there any pictures that bbcat, or Sustainable tallahassee can provide to make the information more appealing after it has been integrated to the site.

.Is there anything paticular on SustainableTallahassee.org that shouldn't be changed.

Notes from 9/7/10

Sustainable Tallahassee

Stakeholders

Internal Clients

· Leon county govt
· School district
· Goodwill

External Clients

· Teachers
· Donors
· Public @ large interested in sustainability

No money. Website is primary marketing vehicle. Needs domain name

What are keywords to use to increase search engine hits?

People use “Tallahassee” but Leon county govt wants “leon county”

Database-like system will come later, leave space

Located at Copeland and Madison

bbcat.org

for environmental activists

policy maker resource for decision making

anyone interested in green issues

Facebook/blog integration

ideas for organizing information

I figured we may be able to organize the immense amount of information into a pdf file kinda like this:

http://www.awea.org/pubs/factsheets/050629_Myths_vs_Facts_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Or we could organize it into a faq page kinda like this:

http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php

except organized more effectively.
Whatever we do, the information needs to be more organized and  made more attractive. Maybe some pictures and graphs like in the first site i posted.