As this week's topic was numerical/statistical and image databases, I'll be searching Google Images. I chose this database from among several options because I thought that searches like "best webpage layout" or "perfect website" might lead to some useful images and be helpful for web designers who are visual learners rather than people who prefer to read to get information. I think it will also be interesting to search Google Images because so far in this blog I have been looking mostly at expensive subscription databases that have a lot more features, so it will be a challenge to work with something that is, in a lot of ways, more basic.
My initial search is shown below:
This isn't a total failure, but I can see that it shows a lot of webpages
for web design companies rather than examples of good websites, and the latter
is what I am going for. The revised search will be shown in the next post
because Blogger can only handle one large screenshot like this.
This blog was created for TWU course SLIS 5513, Online Information and Retrieval. It chronicles searches for resources on website development and design in a variety of databases, and presents both substantive information on web design and reflections and tips related to database searching.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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