5 poorly-designed Webs + 5 well-designed Webs

5 Poorly-designed Webs

1. Cingular Treo 650: This is very slow to load the display that contains lots of flashs and javascript.


2. Notebook Review.com: This site is better download compare to the previous one, but the font of Left links are very small that are hard to read.


3. Glossary of Mobile phone: This is look ok, but I hate the popup window.


4. Free map:This free map site is very bad that the designer put links everywhere he/she could put that create a mess.


5. Egov: This site has too much information and not enough organization

5 well-designed webs

1. Armenia: This site is good because of its well organization and its good simple navigation scheme.


2. Australian: This site is Straightforward, perfectly simple and well put together.


3. American History: This site is good uses of difficult darker colors


4. America Central. This site is quite simple that is very good for starting to have ideas of Web design.


5. JStor: This page is very useful page not just because of its information, it is because of its loading speed and well put information together.

Five sites of graphic

1. Navigational Graphics:
This site teaches people how to design images such as icons, imagemaps, linked graphics, and placement of Navigational Graphics in order to aid in the navigation of their website.

2. Grantastic Designs:
This site, people can learn some tips related to the use of graphic iamges on web pages.

3. Absolute Web Graphics Archive:
THIS IS GREAT. MANY MANY MANY OF GRAPHICS COULD BE USED FOR WEB DESIGN

4. Realm Graphics:
THIS IS EVEN GREATER, HAVE A LOOK AT THIS.

5. Optimizing Web Graphics:
Want to make your web load faster? this page is the right one to have lots lots of tips to minimize the sizes of your graphics.

So, enjoy those website above.

Installation of the graphics tool

To have a free tool of graphics editor, I went to the site named http://www.gimp.org/. This site is for Gimp photo program that share to people for free uses.

I click left-mouse on Download button on the website, the download windows appeared. Then I scrolled the page down a little bit and click to the "Download GIMP 2.4.5" to download the program. This program is for Windows Users. After clicking on the the "Download GIMP 2.4.5", the page leads me to another window that asks me to save the file to a location on my PC. I choose a location and click Save.

After saving this file, I installed it follow the instructions which appeared automatically step-by-step. Then, it's done and I have the free program to edit photos. Great.

My recording

Hi,
I would like you to listen to my performance combined with my very short voice as an introduction. This work is called Sonata for Oboe, 1st movement written by baroque composer Loillet.

Please enjoy it.

5 Free and opensource XHTML and CSS template www sites

1. New_Rise
I like this because this site is create with nice photos as background. The color in this site is quite nice and readable that texts' color and background's color blend to each other. Further more, the navigation bar has interested color for a:hover.

2. Flash_Web
I also like the Flash_Web site due to the arrangement of table forms. The web creator logically made the Login form at first, then placed the Contact form at the bottom of site. This is convenient for the web viewers when they visit this site; they can leave their contact information as well as comments after reading the page without scrolling the page up.

3. Breaking_OnTop
Look at this site, how interested it is. The half part of "O" character fix to the half circle of the cup. Web creator has good "eyes" to make the breaking page so that make the viewer feel there are two sites on the same page.

4. Trial_Impact
This site attracts me at the interface design. The layout design of this site look professional for companies' works. In addition, you can see that there is a small image appeared while you point the mouse to any of links at nava bar which is at a top of webpage. These small images make me think they are made of flash when I first visited this web site.

5. Guideline
I just like this because there are lots of information are displayed in the site but it looks simple and normal. The layout design is quite simple with lots of links but it's... simple. I like it because its simple interface design.

All of these sites above are provided under the terms of Creative Commons Public License.

About "Pangea Day" Webpage

I visited the website called Pangea Day and found that this site is a generous site which contains charitable values through powered films.

This site has a very big partner who is a famous company, NOKIA. This company has used their idea of connecting all people around the world to invest into the "Pangea Day". You can see the idea by watching the film about a presentation presented by Ms. Jehan Noujaim who tries to indicate the wishes of generous charity.

Furthermore, the website is looking for any kinds of films which hold attention for every second and tell a story that connect people in the world together with peace.

"WildCam Africa" Website

The site "WildCam Africa" is the one that created with dynamic design. I think the designer has to spend much of time to make many dynamic changes that also called behaviors.

The main program language used to create behavior is JavaScript that designer either write on website directly or embed the Java files with has extension ".js". Actually, designer embed the sources collecting from other websites that web viewers can have a look by clicking on the hyper-links.

Not only the behaviors, designer is also great in CSS programming which shows up very nice presentations. However, the most impressive thing is that designer of this page has collected huge data and information that very useful and helpful for viewers for their own researches.

In short, this page is a great page that included much of information with the nice interface design through CSS presentation and behavior with technological languages.

Comment about article

From Web page to Web platform: Web 2.0

The page From Web page to Web platform: Web 2.0discusses about the development of Information Technology that serves people for information searching. The page tells people that we have a great bank of information on the internet network, then web developers mix up information that suit to consumer's particular needs. For instance, developers create programs that allow web users check databases/information by playing with their web sites. The web called "Chicagocrime.org" is good illustration that shows people how to play data on the websites.

Further more, users now can be free to do commercial business on internet (called e-commerce via dynamic websites which provided the great web programmers. The programmers treat people on internet with their presentations through web behaviors which using programming languages to control every movements on e-commerce. The good example can be ebay website.

View of Peabody Institute

1. Satellite photos


2. Hybrid maps

The Web Interface I like most

1. http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/194/194.css&page=1

The URL address above leads to the web layout design which I like most. This designing work is named Dark Rose by Rose Fu. The reason why I like this because there is a combination of ideas of technology and art in classical style. He places the rose on the technological frame and created the artistic fonts with some big nice alphabets for the headline and secondary headlines. In addition, he put everything in the scene of old style that looks like papers teared from the old book which shows up his artistic design. Furthermore, Fu has been successful to give texts in his webpage colour which adapted to the background colour. Because of the colour has not much bright highlight, thus the page is very comfortable to look and to read information texts.

2. http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=171/171.css

Please visit the site above and you might think this site is simple and not thing special. However, there is tiny thing embed in the layout. The tiny thing which can make me like this site is about the way Shaolin Yokobue, the creator, places picture at the banner. In addition, he tried to fix image to text. For instance, the text "# A Walk in the Garden by Simon Van Hauwermeiren" is out of frame range that makes him change bend the image line, so the text is still in the black background of image. And might be because of that, Yokobue has to bend some places else of straight lines to make the site looks balanced. In general, this site is like an art work.