Lesson Task – get the basics right

PART ONE

1. Explain the following terms in your own words: 

The internet is most easily described as a lot of computers being connected through cables or digital signals across the world. Back in the days we needed to use computers to access the internet, but in 2020 the technology has made it possible to connect a lot of different devices to the internet and a world without it os hardly imaginable.

HTML is short for hyper text markup language and is the language for web pages. Everything you see on a web page is put together by different HTML-codes that decide how you view different elements on the page.

The browser is the software we use to access the internet. Usual browsers is Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Chrome etc.

A search engine is a software system that is used to search the internet systematically. It responds with links to web pages, videos, articles and results based on the textual search.

2.Please research and add another 10 questions to the briefing process.(See the lesson.)

1. What is the purpose of your web page?
2. What do you want to be the first thing that meets your audience at your page?
3. Is there anything you want to steer away from in regards of design and content?
4. Is there anything that is an absolute need for you to have implemented in your website?
5. Is there anything I need to take into consideration when I design such as advertisement or similar?
6. Do you have a brand manual and logo?
7. Do you have a website already? If not, why?
8. If you have a website already, what do you think works and not works with the existing one?
9. How much do you want to be included in the work process?
10. Will we need to implement a payment sollution to the website?

From this list of 20 questions (your 10 added to my 10), please create the ultimate list of 10 questions that you would use for clients.

1. What kind of visitors are you expecting on your website? 
2. What is the purpose of your web page?
3. Who are your competitors and how do you differ from them?
4. If you have a website already, what do you think works and not works with the existing one?
5. What actions do you want visitors to take on the site?
6. Do you have a brand manual and logo?
7. Will we need to implement a payment sollution to the website?
8. What features should be used on your website? 
9. What do you NOT want on your site in terms of text, content, colour and graphic elements?
10. What is your deadline for completing the site? How big is the budget?

PART TWO

Surf the web and find 10 sites you would consider to be great websites. Simultanously, make a list of 10 sites you consider bad websites. Remember to describe why you would define them as such.

Ten websites I consider to be great:

• http://www.apple.com
• http://www.tripadvisor.com
• http://www.monsterenergy.com
• http://www.thefutur.com
• http://www.pobel.no
• http://www.07.no
• http://www.brainify.no
• http://www.vipps.no
• http://www.noroff.no
• http://www.ikea.com

These pages have in common that the design is clean and the site is easy to navigate around. Finding the information I seek is easy and the pages does not feel cluttered with unnecessary elements. They are well thought through, and suits the brand and/or function well.

Ten websites I consider to be bad:

• http://www.arngren.net
• http://www.lingcars.com
• http://www.blinkee.com
• http://www.kroafahthai.no
• http://www.keiser.no
• http://www.goo.ne.jp
• http://www.bostonterrierklubben.no
• http://www.pizzahus.no
• http://www.omramakennel.com
• http://www.joyof.net

Some of these pages are so packed with elements and colors that one gets dizzy just looking at it. Others hardly have any information or are not even really a website. They all have a very poor design, and it’s hard to find the information one is looking for if it is there at all.