1. School of Information – (Current Student Section) By: Amit Sharma | inf 385e Fall 2005 - iSchool, UT- Austin http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

2. Website available at: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html Tools used: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Design & Coding) Microsoft Visio 2003 (Wireframes) Text Editor – Notepad (Javascript) Browsers - Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer (Display) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

3. Main Page (Before) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

4. Main Page ( After ) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

5. Site Statistics Total No. of Pages : 17 Validation Results (http://validator.w3.org) :http://validator.w3.org Validated : 11 Not validated : 06 (due to URL on pages which were not recognized by w3.validator) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

6. Graphics and Logos used University of Texas at Austin School of Information Logo Images taken from Personal Camera & iSchool Site http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

7. Changed Features (1) Course Description (Before) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

8. Changed Features (1) Course Description (After) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/coursedescription.htm

9. Changed Features (2) Courses division (based on Academic Tracks) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/library.htm

10. New Features (1) iSpace ( One stop for all information needs) http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/ispace.htm

11. New Features (2) My Courses Page http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/yourcourses.htm

12. Design Decisions Dividing the main page according to specified users. Labels ( e.g. iSpace, iZone, iPlace, my Courses). No. of Levels for website. Content to include in iSpace. Number of images on a single web page. Division of courses by Academic Tracks. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

13. Problems Faced (1) Browsers Mozilla FirefoxInternet Explorer 6.0 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/courses.html

14. Problems Faced (2) Tools don’t behave the way you expect (Dreamweaver producing extra code). Logo of iSchool ( a small file which on expanding produces blurriness in text). Trade off between Size Vs Mission of site. How to make users enter and visit the site again http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

15. References Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the world wide Web, 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Van Duyne, D., Landay, J. A., & Hong, J. I. (2003). Design of sites: patterns, principles, and processes for crafting a customer-centered Web experience. Boston, MA: Addison - Wesley, Inc. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

16. Thank You Website address: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html - Amit Sharma