Who is your target audience? Please respond to the required questions found in the Design and Planning section.
My target audience is people who are interested in legends and myth. Specifically legendary locations. I opted for calming earthy colors with my banner being a sandstone color with blue lettering to go with the blues and greens found throughout the rest of the site. I have more images of Atlantis than anything else on the site so I figured a blue/green color combination would work out well. As an added bonus the color scheme is soothing on the eyes so it's much more relaxing to read it.
Discuss your SEO planning and integration. Please discuss how you integrated the requirements stated under the SEO section.
I started out with figuring the combination of keywords I wanted to use. While Atlantis has a bunch of hits some of my other keywords...not so much. I checked them out with google adwords. The site name I used is already taken regrettably so I'd have to change it to may legendarylands.org the .com is just an empty page with a promise of maybe doing something with the domain in the future (lol). I duplicated the keywords used in my headers and via some of the links I used to make the site a bit more crawlable. The images I used I used the individual cities/countries that they represented. All of my images are creative commons images with several of them completely open content because of the original publication date.
Discuss your Testing experience. Please include Accessibility, Browser, and Usability testing.
Cythiasays likes my page. All of my images have alt text but I ran into some problems checking my page out in other browsers. Originally my firefox beta version hated the page so I had to uninstall it and install a non beta version. Then the default for the browser was no images loading which actually helped me confirm that all my alt text was there. I got it up and running though. Usability testing was done by a couple of my friends. Most of them checked it in Chrome but after asking them they checked it in other browsers as did I. IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
Describe your validating experience. What troubleshooting did you experience?
I did run into problems with my breadcrumbs so I had to modify the code a bit to make it validate correctly. As is always the case. My rich media videos do not validate in xhtml strict.
How did the images you use contribute to your website's purpose? Did your CSS style add to the "siteness" of your website?
The images are designed to invoke wonder and curiosity which is really what legendary places are all about. It makes people curious. The colors found in the pictures are also reflected on the color scheme of the site. They balance well with each other which makes the pages flow better.
What style choices did you make to improve the readability of your table?
In my case I just used the table to contain a gallery of pictures as I couldn't think of the right kind of information to compare within it. I did run into some functionality issues with my form in firefox and IE while it displayed fine in chrome. I looked through the code and couldn't figure out what was causing the issue so I placed the contact form within a table to format the data better and actually it looks pretty nice.
How did the media you created contribute to the purpose of your website? What plug-ins does the end user need to display-play?
The video I used is a perfect example of the endless documentaries that can be found on the history channel, history international, national geographic, and the science channel. I should know, I always DVR them. lol As with all youtube embedded videos they require a flash plug in which all up to date browsers have.
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