During this week, I got acquainted with the CMS of the magazine Global Journalist and updated the World Watch map. I also sought out advice about the possibilities of making an alternative to this map from Mary Nguyen, the infographic professor, and the Division of Information Technology technical trainer Sean Patron.
The map (http://fmatlas.com/view/globaljournalist/20090322_ww03222009), despite being criticized as being not the best-looking one, has undeniable benefits. It is easy to follow with the bubbles above the countries. It is also very easy to update and does not require any particular IT skills.
Nguyen pointed out that the texts on the maps were too long and should be shortened to a short headline with a link or a very short paragraph. It is not a good idea for a reader to have to scroll down to read.
Both Nguyen and Patron said that creating another map, in this case it should be in Flash, which allowed Global Journalist staff who do not have to know about Flash, to update it easily, will be challenging, as I will need to incorporate a database, so that other people can easily update the map from outside the Flash program. I decided to study this issue further on.
RESEARCH
I needed figure how to carry out a survey on whether and how different ad placements on a Web site could influence readers’ attitudes towards it.
My original idea was that I would turn my Web site layouts into images and put them on a survey Web site, as I did not know how that could be done otherwise.
However, after seeing what my former classmate Mark Lewis did with his survey on Web sites and attitudes towards content presentations, I decided to follow suit in his method of putting a web site on the Bengal server and make a link to the survey. It is no doubt much better and more realistic, if a reader has access to a real Web site rather than just its image.
http://bengal.missouri.edu/~malnq2/project/A-Intro.html
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