IDCC 380: Web Design II Spring 2010

Exercise 7 - Usability Associates Services, 02/24/08

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Tuesday, February 26, we will begin Exercise 7, using one set of the tabs you generated with CSS Tab Designer, Thursday, February 21. This tab set will become the top-tier primary navigation in the header of the services page of our prototype site, Usability Associates.

Exercise 7 will allow you to place the tabs in a fully functional template, complete with wrapper, header, left-column secondary navigation, right column content, and footer. The screenshot at right (click for larger view) illustrates the prototype I built from a tab set placed into one of the earlier layout exercises.

This exercise introduces you to a number of new Web design challenges, chief of which is putting together layout (with appropriate color palette), primary navigation (generated), secondary navigation (hand carved), exported and commented CSS, exported JavaScript, W3C validation, and high level prototype functionality. All in all, this exercise is an excellent design, information architecture, and site management experience.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: css, CSS Tab Designer, information architecture, internal navigation, navigation systems, primary navigation, prototype, secondary navigation, template, top-tier navigation, web design

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