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U1.W1: Your Favorite Websites

Learning Objectives

  1. Evaluate a website in terms of design and user experience
  2. Compare websites to discuss what they are doing well and what they can improve on
  3. Read a website's HTML and CSS
  4. Determine whether a website is following best practices

Purpose

In the same way that professors and graduate students are required to contribute through publications, developers are expected to make contributions to their field through blog posts, stackoverflow and other site answers, and giving talks. In Phase 0, you will start your contributions through blogging about cultural and technical topics that correspond to the week's topics.

##Directions

  1. Identify three of your favorite websites.

  2. Ask yourself:

  • Why is this one of your favorite sites?
  • What area of the site is your eye drawn to when looking at the homepage? Stand back further, what area is your eye drawn to now? Is that area the most important area of the site?
  • How would you describe the website visually? List 5 adjectives. (i.e. "pretty", "elegant", "simple", "dark", "cluttered", "basic" etc)
  • What problem does this website solve? What content does it have?
  • What 5 adjectives would you use to describe the content, focus, and purpose of the site? (i.e. "practical", "fun", "whimsical", "silly", "serious" etc) How does that compare to the adjectives you used to describe the site visually?
  • How easy is it to find what you are looking for from the homepage? How about from another page?
  • How easy is it to browse through all the content of the site?
  • How do you feel after being on the site for a while? (i.e. "bored", "happy", "anxious or hyper", "like I wasted a lot of time" etc)
  • Does the site sell anything? If so, have you purchased any of it? Why or why not?

  1. Create a new html page in the unit1_week1 folder and write a blog post analyzing the 3 sites in terms of user experience and design. Add a link to the index.html file for your new blog post!

  2. Reflect on the process of writing a blog post on 8_favorite_websites.md in your reflection gist.

Bonus

  • Get more technical. Take a look at the websites' HTML and CSS by opening the devloper tools. Does the HTML and CSS look clean? Does it follow good practices? Are you able to change the look of the site using the tools? How easy was it?
  • Submit your post to HackerNews or a sub-[reddit]. What were the comments like?