Dear Professor Royer,

Assignment four was to write a memo to you stating the revisions we chose to make over the course of the semester. I know several other members of the class chose to revise most of their work however I ended up spending most of my time on my project five for the Latin American Studies Program.

Project Two: Front Door Re-design:
I did however re-design my front door page to give it a little bit more professional look and feel. I chose to modify some images that I have taken with my new digital camera and include them on my site. I also chose to re-design the navigation system to include more use of CSS with the link styles and the body text. I think this site, although still very simple, is much better than my first front door.

My first front door page was just random links on the page with a picture. Nothing was in any particular order and it was done the first night of class. This new site uses tables, fireworks images, and CSS to clean up the layout and make the navigation system much easier to use.

Project Four:
Project four was our re-design of a current and existing site. The LAS group was given the project of redesigning the Conference on the Americas site that Professor Rhodes already had on his www4 site. Each member of the wrote a section of this site and then all those sections were combined into one main site.

The group got a score of 85% for this project. After I spent the class period putting this site together and linking all the pages up I realized that the site we made wasn't going to match the look and feel of my current site so I chose to re-design the Conference on the Americas site all together again this past week in class. The previous site linked to individual students sites and they all made changes to it after it was posted. The result was a horrible site with different images and bad formatting.

My new site for project four can be found under the Conference on the Americas link off my main LAS page. While the majority of the conference site is just text, I feel it has a better look to be attached to my site and is consistent with the remainder of the site. I also chose to re-do the navigation system for this site by adding a sub-navigation system to make it easier to get around within the conference page.

Project Five:
While we haven't received our grades for project five yet I would just like to say that I chose to spent more time on project five than re-designing other sites. I made this decision because I felt the Professor Rhodes was looking for a very professional site that he can use in place of his current LAS site. In order to accomplish this task, I felt it was more important to spend a considerable amount of time in the designing of this site.

I chose to use template for easy navigation and for an overall consistent look and feel. My site looks very similar to that of other department web sites on the GVSU server and doesn't feel too out of place. Images are used throughout the site to enhance the quality of the presentation. This site uses multiple CSS styles and has a very complex navigation system in terms of actual design.

I believe hope this site is what the LAS program is looking for and I hope they are able to use it. There are a few pages with blank information that I could not find that they can use should they choose. The Faculty pages need to have that information updated and posted before the site goes live so students can contact the faculty.

Lastly under the contact us page there are two form pages that offer feedback on the site. These are not going to actually be able to work on the current GVSU server but they are there for looks incase Professor Rhodes would like to create something like that on his www4 server and link to this new site.

I believe that is about all that I have as far as revisions go for my web pages. If there were more time in the semester I would have re-designed some of the other sites with the skills I learned but I guess those will have to wait for another day.

If you have any questions about my site please feel free to contact me a chapmanm@student.gvsu.edu and I would be happy to help out.

Happy Holidays
Matt