24/10/11

Website analysis of the Arsenal website

This website has been designed as an informative webpage to show fans and users the newest information off the club. The main homepage is designed well for quick and easy access. At the top of the page it has a clear navigation system with drop down menus to navigate through the website.

  This is a screenshot of the drop down menus form the website. The colour scheme is good and enables users to clearly see each navigation. The colour scheme is also the club colours and works as a consistent house style throughout the website.                              

To the right is an example of the news headlines. This is a good system the website has, as the most recent and top stories are shown at the top of the page with pictures. Then to allow users to view the rest of the news stories you are able to see the other most recent stories below. This will enable users to keep up to date on news stories even if they haven’t visited the website in a few days. The colour scheme is still the same to match the housestyle which adds to websites professional look. One downside that could be improved on the website is that the text for the extra news stories is small. To ensure that users can see this the text could be made bigger to ensure the usability is easy.

At the bottom of the webpage there is a small results section, which shows the last fixtures result and who arsenal, are playing in their next fixture. This section could be improved by including results from all fixtures that weekend or to show where arsenals are positioned in the league. Just to improve the accessibility of the website rather than navigating through pages which will add time and may reduce peoples user experience on the website.

This is another page of the website, it is clearly shown for the first team and all the people involved within the 1^st team. The usability is easy and good for each player by clicking on their name you are linked to their personal profile. Each player has their own personal profile with their own details. The text and colours for this page is easy to read and can easily by viewed by all users. 

18/10/11

In today’s lesson we have looked at the usability of websites. The website we used was http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ on this website we analysed different areas and then emailed the BBCtell them our feedback. The feedback I gave is shown below:

We assessed:

·         Find out the latest headlines

·         Find out the weather for your local area

·         See the TV Lineup

·         Radio live stream

For	Against
·         The main home page of the beta version is very clear and easy to use – the top news stories are clearly shown at the top of the page. ·         The weather is clearly located at the top – however this should be shown with more detail and features as users may want to know a specific time for that day. Therefore by including an extras features for the weather.	·         However on the links to iPlayer it can be seen as misleading as people may not be aware that you can click the whole video to view. But with the I that is shown the users may think you need to click the icon to view the video. ·         The exchange rates are quite hard to locate and as they are a key factor off the UK’s economy they should be easily accessible.

This was sent in an email for the BBC.

After this I was paired with Rosie: here I assessed her multimedia design from 5 different tasks. This helped me to see how other people are working. Rosie then tested my guide from these guidelines:

·         Locate the buttons

·         The design of the product & layout

·         The navigation layout

·         Pictures (relevant?)

·         Animation

This was helpful as I got an external view of product and how to improve it.

• Add an extra feature such as an animated ball bouncing at the side of the page.
• Extra navigation at the bottom of the page if you need to scrool down to save scrolling back up.

11/10/11

In todays lesson i have been creating my buttons and adding my animation to these buttons. When creating the buttons i made a not of the co ordinates to make sure everything was the same size and level.
I have attached an example of the button and the co ordinates i ahev used for the home button and tutorial button. I made a not of these so i could remeber them and not make any errors. This helped me to ensure it was of a good quality.

6/10/11

Today I have started the creation of my project.
Firstly i imported my background for the project into flash, this didn't work first time so i needed to change the size of this to fit the flash project correctly.
I have now started to create my buttons for the project. Firstly I made the ball spin at first i had to remind myself of how to create the movie clip for the button. I am now creating the text in photoshop for the navigaiton.