3. Navigation and Labeling Systems

This post is about the navigation and labeling system of a particular website. I've chosen the search engine website called google.com

                                                             

Label	Destination's Heading Label	Destination's Title Label
Header Menu
You+	google+	Google+
Search	Google	Google
Maps	Google	Google Maps
News	Google	Google News
Play	Google Play	Google Play
Gmail	Gmail	Gmail
Drive	Drive	Google Drive
Calendar	Calendar	Google Calendar
Youtube	youtube	youtube

1.What labels you did not like and why, and suggests improvement.)?

Google's style and presentation looks nice and simple. The design of the page is fairly simple which is one the most important thing when it comes to requirements is a website. Google have easy navigation, it relies on Home page

  2.Whether there were any inconsistencies in the labelling system between the pages (in terms of style, presentation, syntax, granularity, comprehensiveness and audience) 

Google keeps its home page very simple and consistence. This prevents the user from distraction and makes the users to complete their task successfully in easy and simple way. However Google’ navigation on youtube.com makes different from other Google’s pages. For instance YouTube does not have top navigation bar and also it have different Heading Label from

3. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why)

bing.com

Bing also uses a simple layout which is similar to Google. Bing implemented changing background automatically on its home page as part of getting more users attractive to it; however Google still have more users who have found Google more attractive. 

3.B. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why).

Ask.com

Ask.com has different concept to Google and Bing. Ask is a question answering-focused web search engine. Ask has nice and simple interface to use, however the heading does not clearly shows property
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The winner is Google

 

From what I see I believe Google is the most useful website with the best labelling system. The heading stays the same on the top of the screen on all pages. It makes all these labels very easy to access. The only disadvantage I see is YouTube which has different to other pages

2. Arrange list in alphabetical order

Keep Calm and do sorting

UnSorted order

El Paso, Texas Saint Nicholas, Belgium The Lord of the Rings Newark, New Jersey XVIIme siècle .38 Special St. Louis, Missouri New York, New York 1001 Arabian Nights The 1-2-3 of Magic Albany, New York #!%&: Creating Comic Books The Hague, Netherlands $35 a Day Through Europe H20: The Beauty of Water Plzen, Czech Republic

Sorted order

#!%&: Creating Comic Books $35 a Day Through Europe 1-2-3 of Magic The 1001 Arabian Nights Albany, New York El Paso, Texas H20: The Beauty of Water The Hague, Netherlands The Lord of the Rings New York, New York Newark, New Jersey Plzen, Czech Republic Saint Nicholas, Belgium St. Louis, Missouri XVIIme siècle

Questions and answers

a.  Did you put The Hague under T or H? I put The Hague under T, firstly because it is place, and secondly  because it’s proper name is “The Hague” b. Did you put El Paso under E or P? El under E. El is still a word, so it is under E c. Which came first in your list, Newark or New York? New York comes first d.  Does St. Louis come before or after Saint Nicholas? I put ST,Lous first, because St. is the abbreviation of Saint  e. How did you handle numbers, punctuation, and special characters? Used the Ascii Table http://www.asciitable.com/ f.  Assuming the italicised terms are book titles, what might be a more useful  way to organize this list? -Put them into categories for example "cities", "Movies" & "Books". And put  them in alphabetically order    using categories g. If the cities represent places you’ve visited and the book  titles are ones - you’ve read, how could chronology be used to order  the list in a more meaningful way? Group the books with books and also places so they would still be in  alphabetical order, but in chronological order within the same category h.  Look at how some of the other students have organised this information and  comment on their blogs

I. Information Architecture

The role of an Information Architect in the development of website involves the design of organization, labeling, navigation, and searching systems to help people find and manage information more successfully and also structure of content related to the website this allows user to understand and find what they looking for in easy way.

4.0: Web 3.0The Semantic Web

The use of the semantic web will change the way, how people access and search and share things on the internet and also how they will communicate.Semantic web will be about computer being able to understand information contained on the web. This will improve the way people search things on Internet.

Advantages of Web 3.0

• Information categorized and presented in a visually improved manner that enhances interaction and search functions 
• No software programs to install
• Browsers will position themselves as true lifestyle canvases.

3.0: Social Networking Privacy and Data Use

I have decided to review one of the website that I use so I came up with Tagged.com .for more information about its policies can be found here

What I got out from reading their policies is how they will user your information and what they will do if there is a breach in security on their site. Tagged has the right to use your information in many different ways to different users.

Tagged uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the Tagged website, the Tagged referral and friend list building. Personally identifiable information including members' pictures and names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction on Tagged. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Tagged and to add users to members' friends' networks

Tagged has its privacy setting tools which allow users to set the privacy setting, so each user can set privacy and setting to let other users who can see their profiles (each user have the right to protect their information). You own the content and information that you post on Tagged and have the ability to control how it is shared through your privacy setting

Overall I believe tagged Terms of service and privacy policies are acceptable to the service they provide to the users. Terms and conditions are applied for protecting tagged itself and users. 

2.0: Feed Reader

Feed reader is important tool that help you to gather all information you need and keep them updated. It is very important application because it keeps updating information on website that you often visit or interested. At the moment I am using Google Currents, not only because of its good interface, Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to tablet, smartphone as well as laptops for high speed and offline reading. Google Currents deliver news in different categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more.

Benefits
All news at one place: you can subscribe multiple news and customize your Feed reader and put all news on one single page. RSS display and update faster than information on web.

1.0: Who am I

Hello my name is Ami Celestin Niyitegeka I am third year student doing bachelor of Information Technology majoring in System services at Nathan campus. I will finish my degree first semester next year, if I pass all subjects that required for my major.

From my understanding I think this course focus on topic of introducing the latest Web 2.0 technologies. I hop this subject is going to teach me how to give and share information architecture and content management principles that will help me to present a large volumes of information online in a manner that is easy to find and appealing to end users. This is my first time to create a blog and my first time to maintain it as well. I really enjoying it and I hop in future I will keep creating more blogs. I am interested in becoming web developer or database administrator when I graduate. I haven’t start looking for work or internship that could put me into one of these roles. But as soon I finish this semester this will be definitely what I will be doing during my final semester.