Sunday, February 6, 2011

Blog Post #2

Excel Microsoft would be essential to the upkeep and invention of my textbook catalog website. I would use it to organize all of my finances between the website and the universities in which I provided service to. This would be essential to the upkeep of the system and the continued relationship between my company and the universities for which I provide services. If the catalog is not available at all times to the necessary universities as a result of a financial matter this could be devastating to that university as a whole and they would likely, after too many mistakes that could be caused my human error, break off the relationship. That's why instead of leaving it up to chance of human error I would use excel for the upkeep of my company. Especially since payments can get complicated as the money to pay for the services will come out of tuition money.

I will also need to use excel to keep updated lists of the necessary textbooks to be added and to which universities. Obviously each university will have an extensive list of all necessary reading material that will need to be provided by my company, and again if it is not it could be disastrous to that college and our working relationship. They will also need to be updated constantly as the material needed by each university could change drastically every semester.


I will also need to chose the colors of my website very wisely. I need to be able to draw the students attention to the proper places in order to navigate the site easily, but I cannot use anything to bright or busy at the same time. As this will be every student's resource for every text book in every class they will have to be on the site for quite some time, specifically if they are given reading assignments of some sort. I would need to find the color scheme used by kindle so that when they are reading a text, it actually looks like a book instead of a computer screen, so that it won't give students a headache and so that they can read it in natural light.

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