August 2007
Beginner
416 pages
12h 16m
English
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QUESTIONS
Visit any well-known online shopping or auction site, such as Amazon or eBay, and navigate to a product you're interested in purchasing. You don't have to actually buy the product, but from the home page, sketch the approximate layout of the pages you encounter as rough wireframes using simple shapes. Then answer the following questions:
What are the different page types you come across? (See Chapter 4 for a list of page types.)
How do the elements vary and move position from page to page?
How does variation in page templates help or hurt navigation?
Find the web site of your local newspaper. Select any article that interests you. Without scrolling down, answer the following questions:
What percentage of screen is devoted to navigation? To the newspaper article? To other elements?
Is this a balanced layout? What could be better?
Study the two images of CNN (Figure 9-22 and Figure 9-23). The first is the home page; the second is the technology section page, which is reached by clicking Technology. How does the main navigation transition from one page to the other? What are the differences and similarities between the navigation on both pages? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a transition?
Figure 9-22. The CNN.com home page
Figure 9-23. The Technology section of CNN, ...
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