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6. Taking a position on menusWhat’s your opinion of the cognitive burdens on the following sites? Please include generous samples and URLs in your position statement. In House Review the menu system for your organization’s Web site, starting at the Home page, and moving down one or more paths to the lowest possible level. Report your thoughts at each click, your feelings, your physical sensations. Provide us with a narrative of the moment-to-moment experience. At the end, if you have any suggestions, make a list of recommendations for your Web-meister. My Own Menu Take a large complicated document that you have worked on (whether solo or collaboratively). Create a menu system for its online delivery. Now write up what questions you encountered, what challenges you faced, how you came to think about the writing and organizing involved in making a menu system. Although you must describe some aspects of your graphic interface, please keep the focus on the aspects that involve writerly skills. Testing Out Menus Review the menu system for one of the following Web sites, starting at the Home page, and moving down one or more paths to the lowest possible level. Report your thoughts at each click, your feelings, your physical sensations. Provide us with a narrative of the moment-to-moment experience of menuing. At the end, if you have any suggestions, make a list of recommendations for the site: About.com News: http://home.about.com/medianews/ Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/ Custer Battlefield: http://www.cbhma.org/ Defense Link News: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ EINNews.com: http://www.centraleurope.com/ Ford: http://www.ford.com/en/default.htm Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com iVillage: http://www.ivillage.com/ Metropolitan Museum: http://www.metmuseum.org/ Native America Calling: http://www.nativeamericacalling. com/ New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/ State of New Mexico: http://www.state.nm.us/ The Hill (Congressional news): http://www.hillnews.com/ The Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonian.org The Smoking Gun: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
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How to make your menus meaningful: 6a. Think of a heading as an object you reuse many times. 6b. Write each menu so it offers a meaningful structure. 6c. Offer multiple routes to the same information. 6d. Write and display several levels at once. 6e. When users arrive at the target, make it obvious. 6f. Confirm the location by showing its position in the hierarchy. Resources on menus Heuristic Online Text (H. O. T.) Evaluation of Menus
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