Unit 4 Reading

Summary:

For this week’s homework we read chapter 7 in our books and it was on designing home pages for the web. I got a lot out of this chapter, not only from the designing aspect, but the subliminal marketing aspect. This chapter went into great detail about how important designing the homepage was for any website. I particularly like that this author goes into the thought process of the user through every step of the homepage navigation. It really put into perspective for me how much affordance I should give certain aspects of my homepage design, and what things to watch out for. The Main things that deserved affordance after reading this chapter are your navigation, your tagline, where you should start on the page, and ultimately what your site is about. Any user should be able to visit the site you have his just makes it easier for people to use your site and to have people return to it again in the future. The main things this chapter told me to avoid were, well the list is too long. Pretty much design with the user in mind and make sure that everything is very easy to use and navigate and don’t have too much clutter on the page. If we do this we will design websites that have a good ROI for our clients.