LESSON 4

WEEK 2 – commencing 20/09/10

Lesson 4 – 20/09/10

-          We continued to discuss Sklar’s theory on designing websites. We began to look at the different ways people scan web pages:

-          (Box 1) reflects a person scanning from top to bottom and left to right. Most western people are taught to read (books) in this way. Titles/logos/banners are put at the top of pages – that’s where most people look first.

-          (Box 2) reflects a person scanning from the top and then towards the centre of the page. This occurs when a title and its major content are located in the centre of the page.

-          (Box 3) reflects a scan of a three-column web page (e.g. news service). The person will scan the whole page, then something might catch their attention, causing them to read the whole article before scanning the rest of the page (e.g. The FT.com)

-          We began our research task where we looked at different school websites of our choice and print screened the home page and annotated the good and bad points. The school websites I visited include: www.sccs.camden.sch.uk
www.parliamenthill.camden.sch.uk
www.morpethschool.org.uk
www.williamellis.camden.sch.uk