website redesign-getting the project underway

After my group members, rachel and victoria, and I decided to do a power point presentation instead of the google site templates to display our redesign of the Farnsworth Cafe website we then talked about how to split up the work. I offered to draw up the original and post map of the website links. We all agreed that there were to completely unnecessary links, "Farnswoth Video" and "View All Jobs," both of which had nothing to do with actual cafe and would deter the audience's attention away from the intended point of the website, to advertise and inform about the establishment. While we were exploring the original website we noticed that the various links didn't connect to one another or even back to the homepage which made the site more difficult and time consuming to navigate, so we decided for our redesign we incorporate a sidebar that made all of the pages on the website link to one another. When I was drafting the two maps I began to realize just how important tools like a sidebar can be. I defiantly think that our choice to have all of the pages link to one another as well as back to the home page was a great improvement to the site.

Creating the first map proved to be quite easy because there were so few links that I needed to display in the presentation, the post re-design map didn't turn out to be quite as simple. I used the power point application on my mac to draft both of the maps using the example given by my professor as the guideline. While I was making the second map I found myself having to stop and start over several times to make sure I was making all of the correct links visible and understandable to the viewer. In the end I found a way to show all of the pages and how they link back to each other and the home page in a way that made sense and was visually easy to follow.