From the monthly archives: July 2011

Load time for my home page using Pingdom

on July 28, 2011 · No Comments

I found this helpful website which shows the breakup of load times for free. Here’s mine -

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Whitehouse.gov web accessibilty evaluation

on July 14, 2011 · No Comments

The WCAG evaluation for whitehouse.gov was done in Sept 2010. I chose the www.whitehouse.gov website for my DePaul  homework assignment because it is a government website and they claim to support accessibility. Interestingly, they also have a form page to get feedback about accessibility. I performed conformance evaluated of the home page and one sub-page [...]

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Pirate game dialog box design

on July 7, 2011 · No Comments

This design exercise was done in September 2010. The dialog box designed is for building a ship. Approach to the problem The first step was to play the ‘Kingdom of Camelot’ game and get a feel of the important rules of the game. The next was sketching some ideas and writing down the key concepts [...]

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Portfolio redesign – version 1 to version 2

on July 7, 2011 · No Comments

I am redesigning and developing my portfolio website. This will be the 3rd live version. I decided to document my redesign approach. My very first website (let’s call it version 0) was done using Drupal framework. I used an existing template and added my content as nodes. The website was not nice to look at, [...]

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