First of all, we looked at different websites to decide what we liked and disliked about them - for example, whether or not it's easy to find what you're looking for, whether or not you have to scroll up and down or side to side etc.
My example was music website Drowned in Sound, which used to be one of the better websites around in terms of content. Sadly it's now full of pretentious, arrogant, elitist arseholes who hate every band that's ever appeared in a magazine or been played on the radio, but the layout is still - in my opinion - very good. Unlike a lot of websites it doesn't complicate things, and it's incredibly simple to find what you're looking for and whereabouts on the site you are (particularly useful if you've arrived at the site from Google or a similar route).
After this, we moved on to online research. This largely involved being given a variety of names to find various details for (personal phone number, address etc) with varying degrees of success. Unsurprisingly, the level of success was increased when using "search engine optimisation" techniques documented by Jakob Nielsen. The following week's class also focused on Nielsen's words of wisdom, this time as we experimented with writing with the web in mind - something which went so well I may well include the feature I wrote on my final website.
Next up: Experimenting with web design...
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