When this project was first assigned I was actually excited about it. I thought that after the previous three projects I had learned enough about online writing styles and website design to at least get a good jump start. Upon the very first meeting with my group, Rachel had already had an option for a website that was in great need of redesign, and since the website was for an establishment that Rachel has been to before we figured it was a good choice. So we all agreed upon redesigning the website for Farnsworth Cafe. We spent a good portion of a first meeting exploring this poorly done website and brainstorming ideas for how to improve it. The first thing we noticed were the questionable design elements. The color scheme, alignment, and overall theme of the website were not only boring to look at, but could actually be quite confusing to perspective audiences because it gave a completely false impression of what the cafe was and had to offer.
The next problem we noticed during the process of mapping the original websites links. The original Farnsworth cafe website had both confusing and unnecessary links. We first decided to eliminate the links "Farnsworth Video," and "View Jobs" links because they had absolutely nothing to do with the actual cafe and would be very confusing to the audience. Next we decided to have each and every link on the website not only link back to the homepage, but also link to each other by using a sidebar.
The next task we set for ourselves was to brainstorm ideas for the new look of our website, as well as content changes we wanted to make to sections such as the menu. The only problem was we could not figure out how to work with the google templates for the life of us. After speaking with our professor we decided to do a power point presentation instead.
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