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Exercises

Use what you've learned about CSS and navigation systems from the class and the reading to continue modifying the Good Food website. You should focus on the following items:

• All pages should validate
• All pages should have clear and consistent navigation
• All pages should have consistent typography and colors

Begin thinking about how you might want your final Good Food website to look. Pick out color schemes. Work on designing a logo or logotype for the site. You may use Photoshop, Illustrator, or whatever else suits you. We still haven't learned how to arrange things on our page, but that's coming up next, so get ready.

Blog Assignment

Read the following two pages from the Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition

• Navigation and Wayfinding
• Interface Design

Choose two major websites to analyze. Choose different websites than you used last week. Using both your reading from Don't Make Me Think and the Web Style Guide, analyze and critique the navigational systems that each website uses. Try to pick at least one website that doesn't do a great job with its navigation.

• What types of navigation systems do they use?
• How do you know what page you are on?
• Can you easily navigate to other sections of the site?
• Does the site give you a feeling of how big or small it is? If so, how?
• Is there something missing from the navigation that you think would make the site better or easier to use?

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