Project Report

 Overview

Our site is intended to provide resources for those in search of a career that involves helping the environment. To that end we have divided our site into separate pages, according to the various fields from which job-seekers may come. Each page includes appropriate links.

Design Description

We chose our design based on the needs of our viewers. Our home page offers a brief description of our site and it identifies those who might benefit from it. We did not include our navigation bar on this page in the hope that people would read our introduction before simply clicking past it. Instead, viewers can reach our table of contents by clicking a button on the bottom of our home page. Once there, viewers have a choice to visit any of our nine pages, each of which contains a navigation bar. Thus, the entire site is linked. In addition, if any viewer notes a link but later forgets which page it is on, we have provided an index page on which all of our links are conveniently organized.

Design Process

Having conceived our purpose at the outset, we first divided our site into categories. From these we decided how many pages we would need. We quickly decided to include a navigation bar on every page, and thereby keep our readers within a single click from every page on the site. Our navigation bar fit well along the left-hand side of each page: we preferred that to putting it on top. Instead, we reproduced a small version of the graphic from our home page-- a handwritten tree--on top of each page, just to the left of each title. The light shade of green we chose for our navigation bar subtly reinforces the theme of our site without confusing the eyes of the viewer. Also to that end, we arranged our links in a well-spaced column at the bottom of every page.

Troubleshooting

One of the problems we dealt with was that of activating the links. We had to do this twice, since we also created an index page. Of those links which didn't work, every problem was solved by carefully proofreading each site address and then making what minor corrections each situation required. A significant amount of proofreading was also necessitated by the relative complexity and sheer amount of our text. In the latter case as well as in the former, a few, minor corrections were all that was required.