Travel Exotic India

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Travel Exotic India

• Site designed and implemented by Krishnan Ayyer
• Course Information Architecture and Design
• Fall 2005

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Travel Exotic India

• Website about traveling to India.
• Information about places to see, cities to visit,
  travel tips and other information about traveling
  in India.
• The site is not meant to be exhaustive, but
  provides just a glimpse of the places to visit.

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Tools Used

• Macromedia Dreamweaver used for site
  development
• and management.
• Microsoft Visio- used in site design process to
  create wireframes.
• Java Script- used to run the image slideshow on
  the main page and to make the drop down menu on
  the main page function.
• Adobe Photoshop for image manipulation.

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Before and After Views of Website

• Final site URL
• http//www.ischool.utexas.edu/krishnan/index.
  html
• http//www.ischool.utexas.edu/krishnan/informatio
  n20architecture/IA20project20timeline.htm

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Site Organization and Navigation

• Global site navigation is provided.
• Three main ways to browse the site for
  information
• Through the interactive clickable map on the main
  page.
• Through the drop down menu Browse by state.
• Through the drop down menu Browse by city.

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Site Statistics

• Number of pages- 28
• One style sheet used for entire site.
• Site validated on the CSE HTML Validator Lite
• http//www.htmlvalidator.com/
• The website passed the Web XACT Watchfire
  priority1 accessibility guidelines validator.

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Some Design Decisions made

• http//www.ischool.utexas.edu/krishnan/index.html
  (Final site)
• http//www.ischool.utexas.edu/7Ekrishnan/informat
  ion20architecture/indexversion1.html
  (Earlier version)
• Web pages named based on content and keeping the
  bookmarking habits of users in mind.
• Travel by theme present in earlier version
  removed based on feedback from label card sorting
  exercise.
• Order of links changed on global navigation
  panel.
• Videos and blog labels removed.

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Post Mortem Methodology review

• Would have liked to include a search box.
• Include a start and stop button to allow users to
  stop the moving image slideshow on the main page
  if they desire to.
• Better site management techniques.
• More cities included in the browse by city
  dropdown menu.
• More contextual information like driving
  directions between states.

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• Questions????