new progress check

a second check for RSS feed to the site

progress assessment check

this is to see if the post will feed to the web site

Home page view

Today GetUp! had an update which includes a slight change in the home page. A new image was added for the Gunns paper mill issue. The visual layout of the home page remains fine as they don't try and squeeze to much onto the screen, when something new is put up, some other issue is put into the campaigns page, keeping a reasonable state of order apparent.

Just about finished the Emagazine part of this project, so that will get a link when ready. The opening 'flash' action is from GetUp!s site and is a HTML giveaway which they ask you to embed with your blog. I have modified the width to fit better.

Launched for critique

I have just checked out the blogs of two others doing the same assessment and realise there is still some way to go in preparing the blog to be a real part of the assessment. The analysis needs to delve into the aesthetic and the design needs some html mods, will get on to that.

Analysis

This analysis of design will be about the aesthetic and the technical. Some research came from the web builder Wiliam Web Services - http://www.wiliam.com.au/ which had a brief to build “a versatile, easily accessible web site that would not only support the demands of those in the industry, but also provide an easy and enjoyable experience for the end user.”(3).
The home page layout is clear which is good user interface design, relating to the user, above the system architecture. There are eight links in the main banner _ Home, Join, Community, Campaigns, Donate, Blogs, Media, About. Three of these _ Community, Media and About could be combined into About [leaving six , regarded as a better number of choices] to minimise this banner as there is a degree of repetition within them.