“EZCREATE” The Easy Solution for Web Page Designers (Web Snap Project) by Aarthi, Joy and Sanjini
Our Project-An Overview Databases for web-pages are huge Problems arise for the web site designer We attempt to mitigate the load on the Web site designer Consequence-The “EZCREATE” Tool Commercial companies want to have lots of data displayed on their web-pages. Problems arise for the web site designer Has to go through the entire Database to get an overview of the data and to display all the data in a web-page. Does not have tools by which he can easily create similar web-pages We attempt to mitigate the load on the Web site designer Consequence-The “EZCREATE” Tool
Motivation Overwhelmed designer
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“Our Aim” Reduce Monotony and burden for the designer Bring more life into the final web pages through the “Visualization” concept
Our Solution Interaction Sequences LIST LIST TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILS LIST TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILS …….. TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILS
Implementation The EZCREATE Tool has been developed in JAVA Platform independent User-friendly Interface
Demo Yahoo!!!!!!
Features of our tool Database overview Presenting the essential information Reducing the information overload
Features of our tool List to List interaction
Features of our tool List to Details interaction
Features of our tool List to Child List interaction
Proof of the pudding
Proof of the pudding
Pilot Study Results (ratings b/w 1-5) USERS / ATTRIBUTES Ease Of Use User Satisfaction Learnability Total Points User 1 (Designer) 4 3 11 User 2 5 (Used Help) 13 User 3 (Normal) N/A 10 User 4
Advantages of our tool DESIGNERS PERSPECTIVE USERS PERSPECTIVE No queries Need not bother about information update once interaction is defined Allows room for creativity Lesser effort in creating similar web-pages Visualizations help target on representation format of the data USERS PERSPECTIVE Novice users can use it easily, no knowledge of queries and database functioning required Users can finally assimilate information very easily More points are there in the notepad Include those points too
Future Work Can define more interaction sequences predefined in the tool user defined Work on displaying the final pages on a web page Can incorporate some Visualization tools to visualize the database Query Visualization for the database can be provided Mention that we had time constraints Mention that project forms basis for a rich set of ideas to follow on
Related Work North, Snap Together Visualization Ben Shneiderman, Christopher Williamson and Christopher Ahlberg, Dynamic queries: database searching by direct manipulation David Durand, Paul Kahn, MAPA: A system for Inducing and Visualizing Hierarchy in Websites