Buttons, Radios, text boxes

Music Survey

Name :

E-Mail:

Select Your Favorite Types of Music:

Pop Classical


Rap Folk


Rock Other

Select how often you purchase Music CDs:

Weekly A few CDs each year
Monthly Never purchase

Select the locations you listen to CDs:

Select one or more locations At home In the car

What role does music play in your life?

Worst Web Site

Page Layout

I believe that this website is the worst site that Carlos and I could find. We decided that there is just to much going on with this site. There does not seam to be any organization. Everything is crammed together no matter what the product is. It is not easy to pin point where the product is that you want to choose. Another problem with this page is you have to school left and right to view the entire page. With certain browsers you can zoom out to view the whole page. But that is an extra step most users will not know about, and wont perform. There decided to use up all there white space with stuff. It doesn't seam to matter where they put anything as long as they put something on there. On the positive side it does load in less than 10 seconds. 

Browser Compatibility

It does work in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. It renders the page the same in all 3. The colors are not very distinct from there product. They used pink as there color for links, but to many products have pink. You never know where the link is vs the product. They like to use a tan color for the topic of the page. The problem is they use it in other parts of the page. They switch between pink and tan for specials and other important things. They switch between tan and black for the price and description of items. They have so many random pictures of different products that you never know if its the first page or another one.

Color and Graphics

They have a couple different fonts they use on there page. None of them really flow well together and they change the font many times while they are typing in a sentence. This makes it somewhat hard to read. It does not flow well together, and it is distracting. None of the font sizes or colors are ever kept to certain items. They are used randomly, and is very confusing. 

Navigation and Content Presentation

All of the hyper links work from the ones that I checked. Everything took me to a page that had what the link said it was for. But it still confusing trying to find anything specific. This site uses lots of box frames to separate things. They did a horrible job because nothing lines up, and they are not consistent with where they put them. They have very thin lines on the boxes, and its very hard to see they even separated it.  

Overall Thoughts

Overall this page could be cleaned up very easily. They need to make everything into clear columns and set fonts and colors. They need to be more consistent with where they put pictures, and make the page auto fit the browser. They need to give some space between everything to make it not to smashed. It looks like they are trying to save $ by smashing as much as possible on one page. Some of the page have pictures spread to far apart which requires the page to go on for for quite a while. They did use lots of pictures and colors, but nothing is congruent, and each one takes away from the other. 

Here is the blog to: The best webpage.

Week 3: How to add Favorites Icon

This is the information that I found on how to add it to the browser.

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/favicon.shtml

Week 1: Focus on the Web

The site I am going to write about is www.W3C.com. This site is very interesting to me because they set standards for HTML, and how the web is suppose to look. Without this group there would be many standards and it would be very difficult for developers to create web browsers to work with all of them. W3C was created by the created of the World Wide Web. The name of this man is Tim Berners-Lee.

I believe that the intended audience of this group is any organization, government, or individual that is interested about web standards, and how things are to be displayed. I think they reach most of the individuals that they are trying to reach. A lot of the big names that create web products are members of this. This helps them make sure they are building products that will make for a better web experience for there customers. As for me this site is not very useful to me. I do not build web products, and these standards as of today have no meaning for me.

I am surprised that this site has such high membership fee's. They host many events around the world, but most of them are sponsored by members that already paid $60k+ for there annual fee. I think this site would be a great place for anyone that would like to be on top of all the new web standards. If I were to build this site I would make it more user friendly to find information. I had to do google searches to find answers I had about this site. Everything came up in there site, but it was difficult for me to navigate to it.

Week 1, Web Research #1

How did the W3C get started:
It was created and started by the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee. He wanted to create a web standard that everyone could use so that pages would be viewed correctly by anyone. There were lots of versions of HTML when he created W3C. He wanted to make one version, and have companies and organizations agree on the standards. 


Who can join W3C and what does it cost:
Anybody can join W3C, and the cost depends on how much your or your company makes a year. If you gross $50,000 or more you have to pay $68k to join. If you are a non profit organization or a government then it cost you $7,900.


The article I read was 3C Issues Report on Web and Television Convergence. They are making a standard for watching tv on the web. Three things that they want to set standards for are adaptive streaming over HTTP, extensions to HTML5 for TV, and home networking and second screen scenarios.