Melissa Cavallaro

Intro to Web Design

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Successful Photo Galleries

National Geographic

Etsy

Juicebox

Your Beautiful Photography

Photographer Websites

Daniel Kennedy

Jill Greenberg

Lara Jade

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A CSS3 Property that I knew about, but never really experimented with is the transform property. This article very well explains all aspects of the property. I think you could really create some cool effects with this property to make specific information stand out.

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A CSS3 Property that I am unfamiliar with is the transition property. I didn't know you could accomplish this effect with out using JavaScript, which could be helpful for someone who doesn't know JavaScript. A benefit of this property is that you can use it to distinguish links, and show a small animation when hovering over a link.

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Poor Usability: Mycourses.rit.edu

Why This Site Does NOT Succeed as a Good User-Centric Design:

Upon singing in there is poor organization of information, and the website often has problems loading.

When navigating through your courses you lose the navigation bar at the top, so the only way to go to another area of the website is by pressing the back button on your internet browser.

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Poor Usability: Staples.com

Why This Site Does NOT Succeed as a Good User-Centric Design:

There is no organization or categorizing of the information. I don't know where to look first. Too busy of a layout, no room for the eye to breathe.

It is easy to get lost when navigating through the website. "That was not easy."

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Good Usability: Chevrolet.com

Where This Site Succeeds:

Clean display of information, not too busy- easy to read and navigate.

You can find most of the information you need without leaving the main page. Information about cars opens up in a drop down menu when you click on car types. There is also scrolling areas to view more information at the users control.

 No irrelevant information is apparent anywhere. The user can see and understand everything that the website has to offer. Also a simple design, that is interesting and easy to look at.

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Good Usability: Dropbox.com

Where This Site Succeeds:

It is very user-friendly and informative. You can navigate anywhere on the site without getting lost and always see the most important information. (Such as download the download button).

You don't have to download to utilize the product, you could simply sign-in and start sharing. (It is also free!)

 The product is available for all different products- not just apple or windows, etc. It is also available for mobile devices. The website has just as good usability when displayed on all products.

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Good Web Design

Some other websites I find have a good layout and structure:

burton.com

ploc.co.uk

palantir.com

artstor.org/index.shtml

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