Design And Color Scheme Of A Food-Based Website Essay.

Image Testing and Quality

1. Portfolio 2.2 

Gather the graphics to use on the different pages of your site. This is provided in the RESOURCE.ZIP folder. For other graphics that are not included, please exercise your creativity to create graphics that you will use in the project. These include banner, navigation, section, or identifying graphics. Add these graphics to the test pages of your site. Test the images in multiple browsers to make sure they are displayed properly. Think about the different color requirements for your content, and decide how you can enhance the legibility of the content. Can color help communicate the structure of your information?

Determine the color choices for your web site. Pick the colors for text, table backgrounds, and page backgrounds. Establish graphics standards for your web site, including but not limited to the following:

• Decide whether you will use a standard amount of white space around each graphic.
• Determine exactly which img attributes should be included in all <img> tags.
• Formulate a standard for all alt and title attributes.
• Formulate a basic set of image standards for your site. Use this as the display standard for testing your graphics.

• Determine colors of links and visited links.

• Write a short standards document that can be provided to anyone who contributes to the site.

Portfolio 2.3

Examine the flowchart you created for your web site. Consider the requirements of both internal and external navigation. Create a revised flowchart that shows the variety of navigation options you are planning for the web site. Using your HTML editor, mark up examples of navigation bars for your content. Make sure your filenames are intact before you start coding. Save the various navigation bars as separate HTML5 files for later inclusion in your web pages. Plan the types of navigation graphics you want to create. Use graphics from Portfolio 2.2 for your page banners, navigation buttons, and related graphics.

Portfolio 2.4

Examine the content of TIME.TXT provided in the RESOURCE.ZIP. Design and implement the data contained in this file to be appropriately displayed as a table the project website 1.5

Portfolio 2.5

Design and include forms in the project website. The forms will be used to gather contact details of visitors to the website. Include the following fields:

• Name
• Age
• Gender
• Country of Origin
• Personal Interest
• Comments

Portfolio 2.6

Finalize youproject web site by testing the finished design in multiple browsers and devices (simulators) and making any necessary adjustments or changes to support compatibility. If possible, enlist three to five people to review your web site. Ask for their recommendation. Compile the feedback and analyse the results the test. What do the results indicate about the effectiveness of your design. Point out the areas that you feel could benefit from user recommendations. List any assumptions you
made about the web site and how users either confirmed or denied these assumptions.
 

Image Testing and Quality

The images used in the website are thoroughly tested in various browsers and emulators to check their quality. They are made to be exhibited at varying display resolutions in order to test their stretch or compressibility.

The colors used in the design of this website are concentrated on a set of light tones. A light blue, grey and orange shade has been used as the theme color for the website. The use of these colors help to distinguish the various parts of the website. For example, the navigation bar has been painted with a tint of light orange and the links that it holds are initially kept white. However, on hovering over them, the color of the links are changed into black. This creates a contrast and hence grabs the viewer’s attention. Finally, on visiting the link, the current link color is set to a Greenish Grey shade. This gives a soothing effect to the eyes, as both colors are flat in nature and they go along perfectly. This helps to distinguish the nav section from the other parts. Furthermore, the tables used in the timetable webpage uses an interesting combination of blue and grey tones. The table uses cyan and cadetblue in every alternate columns helps to distinguish the records and eases the ability to read from the table. The background color has been kept white all throughout to provide a simple interface with not much glittering colors. Another interesting color application is seen in the food description sections where a light grey tone runs in the background of each food image and description and separates them from the next. This creates distinguished sections, resembling cards. However, the color of normal texts have been kept black throughout, except for special headings and the likes.

Each and every image used in the website are given a minimum of 10 pixels of margin on all sides. The <img> tags are all provided with the alt=”” attribute. This helps to provide an alternate text that appears as the placeholder when the website is unable to load the image.

Navigation Links

The navigation links are kept white on default. On hovering over the links in the navigation bar, the color changes to black and the current link is set to flat gray. The font of links is also made bold all throughout the project. No decorations are provided to the links.

Footer Link

Color Scheme and Contrast

The footer link has been given the crimson color with a bold weight font. On hover the text turns brick-red. This shows very less change but certainly gives a feel. However, since the link in the footer is a one-time-visit link and does not require visited markers, therefore no color is given on being visited.

Icon Links

The icons used for the social media handles uses a unique set of link color standardization. They are set a greyish tint naturally. However, on hovering, the color changes to orange-yellow. On being clicked, the icons show a flat-orange color to give the actual click sensation as on a mobile touch interface.

The website will have one parent navigation bar at the top of every page within it. This navigation bar will contain the links to all other webpages that are present within the website. The webpages will also hold a copyright link as the footer. On clicking this link, the users will be taken to the copyright information page. The logo or banner at the top of the pages, when clicked will take the user back to the home page. This can be counted as one of the examples of external navigations in this project.

A special feature is the image map on the homepage. It provides navigable links to all the cuisines as well.

It must also be noted, that the icons to the social media profile of the website would link the website to the external websites like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. This would take the user away from the website. However, they will be opened in a new tab on the browser, hence not affecting the website’s navigation.

As for the file and folder names, each food image are to be coupled into their own cuisine’s folder and the html files contain the names that purely describes the purpose of the website.

The navigationBar.html codes would look somewhat like this:

<nav>

    <ul>

        <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>

        <li><a href="chinese.html">Chinese Food</a></li>

        <li><a href="japanese.html">Japanese Food</a></li>

        <li><a class="present" href="Indian.html">Indian Food</a></li>

        <li><a href="mexican.html">Mexican Food</a></li>

        <li><a href="feedback.html">Feedback</a></li>

        <li><a href="shophours.html">Shop Opening Hours</a></li>

    </ul>

</nav>

The social media navigation links shall be presented with the following html codes:

<div class="social">

            <p>Contact us on:</p>

            <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#"><i class="fa fa-facebook-square fa-4x"></i></a>

            <a href="https://www.twitter.com/#"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square fa-4x"></i></a>

            <a href="https://www.googleplus.com/#"><i class="fa fa-google-plus-square fa-4x"></i></a>

    </div>

As it can be seen, in place of using self-created graphics for the social media logos, the project would be provided with font-awesome’s monochrome icons. These can be scaled perfectly with a high display quality at all resolution.

Navigation Links and External Navigations

The html preparations shall be further retouched with the css styles and the look and feel would be improved.

In this section, the use of a table in the timetable page shall be discussed. The webpage’s purpose is to hold the opening and closing hour details of the restaurant on the various days of the week. The content that has been provided in the timetable.txt file has the time and days’ details. The table thus created must hold the days in one column, the opening hour and the closing hour in two more. The days when the shop will remain closed shall be represented with dashes such as “--“.

As mentioned earlier, the alternative rows on the table shall have alternating colors. The header row will have a different color, which is ought to brighter and bolder.

In the form page, text-entry and number-entry form tags are to be inserted with a radio list and button that resets the page. The Name, comments, origin and comments shall have the text type input whereas; age is to have number type. For the Gender field, three radio buttons shall be provided.

This person used the design mockup on a 1280*1024 resolution desktop screen. He was pleased with the overall interface. He seemed quite attracted towards the changing colors of the navigation links and stated that it was a perfect addition to a food-based website. However, his recommendation was that the table must be a bit larger and almost fill the whole page so as to give a magisterial look.

She tested the mockup on a mobile resolution with 500*720 pixels. She was glad to see the contents shaping up to the screen as the resolution was changed on the emulator. She also tested the design on an actual mobile device. She claimed how attractive it looked to see the banner fit the complete head of the window and how the form and tables stretched perfectly to the edges. She had no such noticeable recommendations to give.

This reviewer used the design on a tabular device with a landscape mode. The contents layout did not meet the user’s expectations as they did not scale down properly on a landscape screen and also some contents overlapped. He recommended the design to be both landscape and portrait mode friendly for mobile and tabular devices. He also noticed that the image maps stopped working properly when the resolutions were changed.

These recommendations would help to improve the design of the website. The website can be made completely responsive to suit all modes of resolution. The make the contents scale down according to screen-size needs but still be functional.

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