Introduction to Web Authoring Ellen Cushman Class mtg. #13

Web Tech UA Schedule Dates of interest for the UA project: 2/11 - Introduction to assignment #3 & Teams 2/13 - UA Background & Principles 2/18 - Semantic Principles of User Assistance 2/21 - UA Storyboard 2/25 - UA Walkthrough 2/27 - Workshop Dreamweaver: CSS 3/3-3/5 - Spring Break 03/10 –Workshop:Dreamweaver CSS 03/12– Workshop:User Feedback & Revision Plans 03/17 – Final Versions Posted

Today’s Agenda | Next Class  Post your power point  User-testing with a walk through  Assign revisions in your team  Post your project logs  Fun with CSS  Find a CSS template you love for your personal page and download it to a thumb drive or your afs space>web  Read Zeldman chp. 10 and bring book to class

Doing the UA: step through Load up your team’s power point on one computer. 1.Pick someone from another team to be the user. Try to choose someone who matches the profile of your audience in terms of expertise, interest level, etc. 2.Have the user do the procedure while the others on your team take notes. Watch carefully and note steps, pauses for decision making, signs of success or failure of a step, and any pitfalls or mistakes. 3.Make sure to ask the user where s/he’s getting lost or confused and why. Ask for any other clarification you may need.

After the Walkthrough 1.Go through the draft and add notes about what needs to be added, changed, etc. You might want to use “notes pages” view in Powerpoint. 2.Make a list of the content items your team has to create for the web site version of the tutorial. (e.g. sample images, text sections). 3.Use your list and storyboard to make a to-do list that will distribute the work to be done among your team. 4.Post this to-do list in your process logs.

Next Class  The last few classes we’ve been working on content development for your Web Tech UA.  The next few classes we will work on developing the form into which we will place the content.  Make sure to have a CSS template picked out for your personal page or the group’s page. Bring Zeldman for Chapter 10 CSS guides.