week 5

This week was full of information that I needed to learn. There was a lot of great information and suggestions for creating a website and the best ways to model it and arrange it. This site http://shortiedesigns.com/2014/03/10-top-principles-effective-web-design/  has great information about how people look/scan a website. The F pattern design is incredibly logical, but I would never have realized it except that this pointed it out. I really do scan things from left to right and top to bottom. If I want my website to be successful then I need to make it easy to read and scan and not try to force people to read it against their natural ways. I am thinking that I will make my text area small and brief (nobody really reads it anyway) and really focus on the product and accessibility.

The other part of the week was learning about the payment buttons. I definitely think that I will stick to an affiliate for a while and avoid the headache that would surely come with trying to figure all of that out. I am glad that I learned it though. For future use, I want to remember this: “You do not need to have a paypal acct or login to an existing acct to create a button for this assignment. Complete the first section and then click the CREATE BUTTON button on the bottom of the form.” This is for using the paypal button. I was very glad that someone posted this in the discussion board, because I had no idea how I was supposed to be doing what the assignment was asking me to do.