Cyclones Score 4-1 Victory Over Nailers

Cyclones Score 4-1 Victory Over Nailers

                The Cincinnati Cyclones scored a victory over the Wheeling Nailers on January 25th, with the final score being 4-1. During the first period, Cyclone #20, Josh Shalla scored a goal for his team, exciting the crowd as the first goal of the game was for the hometown team. Afterwards, there was a brief announcement that Wheeling Nailer #12, Jake Areshenko received a two minute penalty for interference.  Shortly after, Cyclone #20, Josh Shalla scored another goal for the home team but also resulting in a penalty for Cyclone #16, Dan Eves during the play. Another penalty for the Cyclones occurred when player #12, David MacDonald was called out for cross-checking as the first period ended.

                With the Cyclones leading 2-0 in the second period, Wheeling Nailer #9, Barry Goers scored the first goal for his team, ending the second period 2-1, in favor of the Cyclones. As period 3 began to commence, Wheeling Nailer #8, Barry Goers received a two minute penalty for holding as the Cyclones scored another goal.  Tension continued to stir on the ice as near fights began between the two teams, with the referees quickly intervening. Wheeling Nailer #20, Nicholas Kuqali would go on to receive a two minute penalty for checking to the head as the Cyclones scored another goal and the third period came to a close.

                Shortly before the fourth period began, the tension between the two teams broke as two fights erupted on the ice between Cyclone #42 Tony Turgeon, and Nailer #13, Patrick McGrath along with Cyclone #12, David MacDonald and Nailer #98, Chaz Johnsom. The rumblings of another fight began to stir but was able to be prevented by the coaches and players on both teams. The game ended with the Cyclones celebrating the victory, followed by a indoor fireworks display.

For more information on the Cincinnati Cyclones, Wheeling Nailers or ECHL, check out the following websites:

http://www.cycloneshockey.com/

http://www.wheelingnailers.com/

http://www.echl.com/

Blog #7: Spring Break Plans

Blog #7: Spring Break Plans

                My Spring Break plans right now only consist of going home to Fairfield, Ohio. Fairfield, Ohio is close to the Cincinnati area. It takes about an hour and a half to get back home because my father and I will stop and get something to eat at a restaurant. While I am currently unsure which restaurant we will be going to this time, my father and I tend to go to either Skyline Chili or Golden Corral.

                Once I get home, I will be spending time with my family. I’m also very excited to spend time with my dog, Brandy Rose. She is a Shih Tzu and she has been with my family for many years. We even have a nickname for her, Boo. I also plan to be doing a lot of schoolwork during Spring Break.

Blog #6: Photoshop Olympics

Blog #6: Photoshop Olympics- 3 Favorite Photoshop Tools

Bronze: My choice for the bronze medal would go to the Move Tool. This tool was one of the most useful tools for me. I probably used this tool more than most of the other tools for the Site Revamp project and it was helpful in allowing me to move around all my shapes for my header, footer and other content.

Silver: My choice for the silver medal would go to the Stroke Tool. This tool was useful in helping me create borders around my shapes so my Site Revamp assignment looked a little more organized and divided.

Gold: My choice for the gold medal goes to the Paint Bucket tool. This tool was useful by allowing me to add color to my layout and shapes for my header, footer, logo and other content to make my Site Revamp project more visually appealing, while also trying to select colors that fit with the theme I had in mind for the Site Revamp. With the colors I chose, I wanted to convey a specific mood and hopefully was somewhat successful in that task.

Blog #5: Site Revamp Plans

Blog #5: Site Revamp Plans

I will be redesigning Cottingley Connect at http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.shtml. I am currently basing my design on the third wireframe, located below. However, I may make some alterations from the original wireframe design depending on whether or not I like the way some factors turn out. I have already made some changes to my original plan, color-wise so there may be other changes still to come. I originally was considering going with a more earthy color scheme, either more Autumn or Spring like but I ended up not liking the way it was looking so I changed the color scheme to hopefully create a more magical like theme to hopefully fit with the tone of the website, after I revamp it.

I also added a silhouette fairy photo for the logo to make it stand out more from the logo on the original website, which is a bit smaller and plainer. I may choose to add another one on the opposite side but I have not yet decided on that. On the original website, the content is not really divided as it could be so I hope to make it a bit more organized by dividing the content in more separate sections, which may require condensing the text and providing a place where a link would be to show more content. However, I am not sure how that will turn out yet so I can’t say for certain if that’s how the final version of this assignment will turn out, since I may end up not liking the way it turns out after trying it out or I may have some issue with Photoshop when trying that idea out since I am inexperienced with Photoshop and picky with how I want things to look like. However, because of just playing around Photoshop and trying ideas out to see if I like them, I have been able to look it as a learning experience which will hopefully be beneficial to any other future projects this semester with Photoshop in both this class and other classes.

Website Breakdown: Lifetime

Website:  Lifetime

Website Link: www.mylifetime.com

The first thing I noticed that about the page was similarity, due to its color scheme being the same when scrolling up and down the page. This is important as keeping the page more similar makes it look professional and organized, which is vital for this website as it is the official website of a television network so it is expected to look interesting but also simple to go through and professional looking. Additionally, I noticed this website had hierarchy, due to the content being centered, visually intriguing with color and close together, particularly the promotions the website was showing for their shows and movies. This is essential because it helps the user see what shows and movies are not only the upcoming features on the television network but also the most popular shows or movies at the time for the network. There is also proximity with the table of contents at the top of the website, making the content of the website divided in a way that is close yet organized, clear to understand and user-friendly.

There is also the use of white space at the bottom of the page in the “Top Content” section. I would say there is also a lot of consistency regarding containment throughout this website with all of the borders surrounding the boxes of content. If you look closely, you can also see the use of texture in the background of the website.

Article Summary- Writing for Mobile Content

An article from the Nielsen Norman Group, entitled “Mobile Content: If in Doubt, Leave It Out”, discusses how content for the mobile require a much stricter editing process than needed for web content.  Because mobile users live a busy and fast-paced life, they want the information they receive to be quick to access and short, but straight to the point. They dislike verbose sites that waste their time so it is important that when editing and writing for mobile, the information is clearly understandable, due to content on mobile being harder to understand more than content one would receive on a desktop or PC.

Because interaction costs are much higher for mobile than desktop content, a much larger focus on mobile content in necessary. Content should be tightly written but precise enough to get all the main facts and information out that is needed. One example would be to not include so many quotes in a breaking news story. It may be good to include a quote from a person of greater social importance such as a community leader, politician or other well-known figure but it is not necessary to include quotes from multiple average-Joe's, as it is an example of bad filler, making the story for mobile unnecessarily wordy which is bothersome for users.

There were 2 solutions described for this matter:

1. Condense. Eliminate anything that is drawn out and too lengthy to the point that is unnecessary information. Only keep what is important but tighten what you say.

2. For the less important information, defer it to a secondary screen for users who ask for extra information. This will keep users who prefer shorter articles happy along with users who prefer that additional information because of their interest in the topic.

In conclusion, the article states that in regard to mobile content, “if in doubt, leave it out.”

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/condense-mobile-content/