Today in class, we were required to read an article that describes how to strategically place your sections in a webpage in the right places. There are places called HOTSPOTS, which are places where people most frequently look seeing how they normally read from left to right, and top to bottom.
This is what the website showed as the general hotspots. It is hard to read the writing in the picture, but the hotspots are the blocks in red.
In the case of online communications, our two hot spots are the left and right columns, going from order of importance from top to bottom. We were required to rearrange our sidebars to coincide with these hot spots.
I honestly feel like my website was great how it was because I had already strategically placed everything where I thought it should go based on importance and my own reasons.
The only thing that was not as important, but placed at the top of one of the hot spots was the calendar. I put it at the top of the right sidebar because I like having the calendar there close to the archives, JUST IN CASE SOME ONE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS! I also like where it is because of how it looks. I am a bit of a perfectionist and I like things to look a certain way, and I really like the calendar there.
I like how my website already is, and if anyone has any objections, let me know! And Mr. Stengel if you choose to disagree with me, you can take points off of my whatever grade it is you give for that because I would be disagreeing with you. This is just to let you know how I feel because I understand the concepts of the hotspots but that is how I choose to do it.
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