http://thisfashion.com.sg

How do you find this site? (in 3 words)

Simple (yet), Boring, stagnant.

Who do you think the site is created for?

Female. As the shop sells female clothing.

What are the good attributes of the site (in terms of usability, aesthetic issues,etc)?

-Its “easy-going”. What i mean is that the site is straight forward in giving information. It doesn’t try hard to impress with fancy2 graphics and fonts.

-it gives you all the information you need. Especially, the page on outlets. They differentiate the main location, address, shopping centre, and unit no. It even provides the entire different outlet’s telephone number.

What are the bad attributes of the site?

-the fonts are constant.

-the colours used are monotonous

-it does not have life in it.

-doesn’t make me want to go to the shop because the website bore me.

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1)      What is a Browser-Safe colour palette / Web-Safe colours?

It is very common to find computers with 8-bit monitor that can only support 256 colours. Therefore, if a computer supports less than 256 colours, it will make the text, image or graphics ‘blur-ish’ or even ugly as the palette combines the colour pixel side by side.

A browser safe colour palette is a colour scheme used in browsers that does not make this happen as it supports more colours.

2)      Is it still relevant in today’s context? Why?

Yes it is still relevant in today’s context. People nowadays are always going for the best and keep on upgrading everything they can. Especially technology. Therefore, I think that it is still relevant as for me, i wont appreciate ‘blur-ish’ images or text when I am using the internet or computer.

3)      What is the common fonts face found on PC & Mac?

Book antique, Arial, Herlvetica.

4)      What is page loading time and how it influence your design?

a page loading time is the total amount of time it takes to load up a page including images and objects etc. A fast pages load time makes a user happy as faster pages makes better user experience. As a user myself, i hate it when i have to wait seven minutes for a page to load fully. Even the best web design can be a killer when the page loads slow. With this, it tells me that the besides the design and structure, the page have to be efficient and fast too. Therefore, the user will be happy with my website.

5)      http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/03/19/web-design-and-worflow-process-comparison/                      

read about the Web Design Process article above and write what you think about it?

I think the article is helpful to most web designers as it really helps to breakdown the importance of web designing. Most of the important key of web designing has been emphasized and simplify. This article is a useful guide for web designers especially for beginners like me. For example, in the section Web style guide process. I say this because the article clearly states the process of web designing and also, for me, it can be like my ‘check list’ in web design. Especially the section Breakdown of the ideal web design process. With this, I can work better and know what wrong I may do. It came to my attention that to develop a web, we need to consider a lot of things. How will the site work? What does the site do? To who must it caters to? In other words, I must put myself in the site’s visitor’s shoe to understand better. With the help of the section Web design workflow I am able to work in an orderly manner. This will make my work less messy and organized. Therefore, a better work will be produced.

 www, safari, firefox, internet explorer, mozilla

2)    What is browser wars?

Browser wars are competition/rivalry for people in the web browser business. Competing for who/which web browsers are better,popular and more commonly used etc.

Also, competing for who/which browser has best text clarity, picture quality etc.

3)    What is IP address?

IP stands for Internet Protocol

It is a series of number to indicate your route address. For example, where is your computer connected to. It identifies your computer from other computer.

Just like your house address, is a route to where you live. IP address is somehow like that.it shows where/which service provider are you connected to.

4)    What is a URL?

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator

It is an address of a page(website) on the world wide web. which is also known as web address.

5)    What is a good website?

Design or layout are not that important. What more important in a good website is, the structure. How the web is being organised. Is it easy to use? Does the buttons and clicks empty? Does it leads to a page that you are looking for? Did the website help u to what u were looking for? Did it ‘serve’ you well?

At the end.its the ‘service’ that people are looking for in a website.