TESTING:

as for the usability of my site, i tried to keep it designed really clean and simple because i feel that the target audience for my site would rather it be more bare in color and theme than cluttered and an eye sore. This enhances the user experience by not being messy and a pain to look at when navigating through the various pages. When testing in Adobe Browserlab I test in two versions of firefox and the latest version of Chrome. The website was accessible and had no problem, although i notice the font style and the banner image shifting slightly. The only change i made was adjusting the margin for the banner to make it less noticeable that it shifts when using Chrome or the previous version of Firefox.


JOURNAL:

a. My target audience is anyone who has seen the movie, read the book, or has heard about either and is interested in a brief summary from a fan page. I chose simple designs with a handwriting banner to keep it clean but still enjoyable to look at.

b. I did experience some trouble shooting while using the box model to adjust my image and media to fit so that it would not shift as much in the browser. It was fairly simple and the box model did most of the work.

c. the images i chose gave the user a chance to look inside the movie and see a few "screenshots" from various scenes. styling them in CSS gave it a little bit of spice as opposed to leaving them borderless and dull. I still kept them fairly simple with a black double border.

d. I didnt choose any particular style to keep my table readable, i just kept it separated with black border so you can differentiate the rows and columns.

e. the user will need a flash plugin to view the video i embedded into my sites "preview" page. I chose a theatrical trailer for my media to give the user a real view into the movie and how it was shown in japan.

f. my validating experience went smoothly because i validated after making changes so that i wouldnt get ahead of myself and end up with a lot of troubleshooting like I did on my midterm. I feel this is a much better way to do things in the end and saves you plenty of hassle.

g. I dont feel that integrating SEO practices has improved my site so much right now since they are not actually employed for search engines and keywords, but they are a must for every website and a vital part of a live website.
SEO:

My strategy to promote my website was basically just taking the two links in my page and seeing their popularity rank and then integrating them into my index page. Then I took some keywords off of google and added them in the meta tags to make it easier to target when searching in popular search engines.

h. I think browserlab is an awesome tool, right up there with kuler in terms of helpfulness. It works great and gives you a lot of options, instead of only being able to test browser "A" B" and "c", you can test browser A version 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 etc. This is key since browser versions seem to have subtle changes. i would use this program again.

i. see testing

j. My Battle Royale Fanpage