1. Travel Exotic India Site designed and implemented by: Krishnan Ayyer
Course: Information Architecture and Design
Fall 2005

2. Travel Exotic India Website about traveling to India.
Information about places to see, cities to visit, travel tips and other information about traveling in India.
The site is not meant to be exhaustive, but provides just a glimpse of the places to visit.

3. Tools Used Macromedia Dreamweaver – used for site development
and management.
Microsoft Visio- used in site design process to create wireframes.
Java Script- used to run the image slideshow on the main page and to make the drop down menu on the main page function.
Adobe Photoshop for image manipulation.

4. Before and After Views of Website
Final site URL

5. Site Organization and Navigation
Global site navigation is provided.
Three main ways to browse the site for information
Through the interactive clickable map on the main page.
Through the drop down menu Browse by state.
Through the drop down menu Browse by city.

6. Site Statistics Number of pages- 28
One style sheet used for entire site.
Site validated on the CSE HTML Validator Lite
The website passed the Web XACT Watchfire priority1 accessibility guidelines validator.

7. Some Design Decisions made
(Final site)
(Earlier version)
Web pages named based on content and keeping the bookmarking habits of users in mind.
Travel by theme present in earlier version removed based on feedback from label card sorting exercise.
Order of links changed on global navigation panel.
Videos and blog labels removed.

8. Post Mortem Methodology review
Would have liked to include a search box.
Include a start and stop button to allow users to stop the moving image slideshow on the main page if they desire to.
Better site management techniques.
More cities included in the browse by city dropdown menu.
More contextual information like driving directions between states.

9. Questions????