Discussion about the independent media I should start by showing how much the media (in USA) is corporate world. There is an organization called Project Censored. They says that their mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why. The organization researched Corporate Media Ownership and shows that main source of news for most Americans is owned by ten big media organizations, who also own “almost everything” (you can read more on here).
The Project Censored is great organization, but their goals are not releted directly to women’ or minorities’ issues. I mentioned them because when they show relations of news to politycs and big corporate world (“money”), they also list some independent news sources, and because the Project Censored operates for more than 30 years, they are good reference.
In their list I found link to Women’s E-News website. Their slogan is “Covering Women’s Issues – Changing Women’s Lives”. This is non-profit organization which is daily internet-based news service. They tries to cover hard to get news which concern women and their lives (about Women's eNews). The editors of Women’s E-News are freelance writers from around the world. The news are published or the website, but also can be subscribe (by e-mail). The organization is coming out from Barbara Lee Family foundation (1996) and became independent on January 1, 2002. Very positive is fact that Wonen’s eNews has its Arabic version. The organization have won 3127 award between 2004 and 2008.
They have a few interesting sections. One touches issue of marriage and divorce from women’s point of view. Going thru this section I found interesting article about fight against forced marriages, which are still practice in many countries in the world. The other interesting section is Uncovering Gender.
The topics of the articles are from all aspects of our lives, from politics to justice, from business to environment. For everyone who is interested in women’s issues should subscribe them.

There is one more organization I want to write about in a few words. The IWPR (Institute for War and Peace Reporting). This organization unite independent reporters in different part of the world, who fight for peace and democracy. This non-profit organization built whole network of for these reporters, and help them to develop skills and professionalism. Their website is great source of news from all places where war has place. I wrote about them, because right now they are building new media pipeline for reporters who works with them, and I am small part of it.

Class of November 10th.

E-Commerce Website

Steps: Process Funnel

"Compeling Value"
- select
-> add to card
-> checking out (+ options)
-> transaction (CC or PayPal)
-> confirmation (+e-mail)

(when I will make my e-commerce site give opions to pay y CC, PayPal and google checkout - it's trused option)


forgivnes factor - give possibility to go back with the shopping process, cancel transaction before completion, change something.

Class of November 3rd.

Try blog: WORDPRESS.

get site before codding to review - 9 people is good number

Try to connect your web life, web profile. Connect Blog to your portfolio.

SavePaper Site

Class of Sep 22 notes

Most sites are producer and creator determined. Created to looks good.
They should be user usefull.
For the customers.

We want to look what users want to do, what they need to do, and how they do that.

Factor are people, who is it for, as well as who is it done by.

The emphesis of this course is not how it looks like, and how it works,
but what users will do.

The audience is different: project to project.


We've got to go to other people, to ask how they would use the website.
Create user scenario.

Case study.
screen resolution
1000x680
that proportion (or size) can beacame emplate for the scematics
If something is below the fold we schold show it in the schematics.

Develope:
1. Concept
2. Proposal
3. User scenario
4. Task analysis
5. Information architecture - sitemap
6. Schematics
7. Comps (comprehensive graphics)
8. HTML - assembly

Grasroots Website

Information

a. developing information
Users - who are the primary users of the web site. (amd who they are not)
I.e. the water charity
likely : - sponsors
- founders
- donors
- volunteers
- press/media/journalism
- partners (other organizations)


Next step is to give them a characteristics. We need to get profiles of potential users.
"what are you looking for if yu are one of the sponsors?"
"what I would want to know?"
i want to see how many project they run, maybe have annual report, waht the progress is, who the other donors are.

Ones we establish user scenarios into tasks, starting working on the landing level.

You don't want to ask user to click more than 3 times to get somewhere. Design web site to have only 2-3 levels. More click was in web sites of 2nd generation, now we have 4th generation of web sites.

The most important things needs to be on the to of the screen, not below default (seen screen).

TASK ANALYSIS

Website archtecture

My first post

This is my beautiful wife and me. We've got married in June last year, and I am extremely happy since that (so long).