Making User Interface The Development of the Website
the file in the website. Below the Choose one is the Other sources table. This part provides users with the other sources of vocabulary learning so users can learn
vocabulary through different website. The third part is the introduction part. This part was divided into Welcome
and Site overview. Welcome provided users with the reason for creating the website and also explanation on supplementary materials, this part also elaborated
the objective of the website. On the right side of the Welcome table, there was an image named woman and books with the size 173 x 140 pixels. Below Welcome
table the writer put an image named learnprocess.jpg with the size 680 x 161 pixels. Next was the Site overview table. This table elaborated the main buttons of
the website. It gave description on the function of each of the main buttons. Besides each of the button, the writer put an image which represented the function
of each button. Each image had the size 50 x 69 pixels. The page then is closed with a navigation bar which consisted of four main
buttons to ease users if they wanted to go to other page without having to scroll up the page. There was also the information about the website production.
b. Exercise Page Exercise page or exercise.htm provides users with the exercise activities in
the website. The page title was put in the right side of the page with the size 169 x 42 pixels, typed in Century Gothic font and the color was 808000. Main menu
buttons were still being shown in the page to ease users whenever they wanted to move to other page. There were eight 8 units in this page which were divided
into 2 tables. Each table consisted of 4 cells. Besides the exercise unit table, the
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writer put an animation named AGOTO.GIF. The animation was an arrow which indicated where users should click on to go to the exercise. On the right side of the
exercise unit table, the writer put 3 animations; they are growtree1.gif, growtree2.gif, and gorwtree3.gif, the size of each of the animation was 94 x 93
pixels. The aim of putting the animation was to motivate the users whenever they wanted to start doing the exercise because the animations symbolized the process
of something; in this case which in the process of growing their leaves. The last was 95 x 44 pixels animation of a girl saying good luck to users, this animation
was to give emotional support to users; the name of the animation is goodluck.gif. c. Help Page
Help page provides users with information about the website. The page title was put in the right side, the same as the exercise page. The main menu
buttons were still shown in the page. The writer put a 177 x 178 pixels image named questionmark.jpg to indicate the page as a Help page. This page explained
about 4 points which users should know when they were using the page, the 4 points were System requirement, How to use the website? How to practice using
the website? and Rules on using the exercise units. The system requirement defines the system that is needed by the website in
order to run. For the internet browser, the writer suggests users to use the internet explorer which has already included in the Windows operation system; the reason
is because when users do the exercises, they need to customize some parts in the internet explorer in order to use the exercise. When users open the exercise they
will get the yellow bar notification which says that the security system does not
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allow active content to be shown. Point the mouse to the yellow bar notification and press the mouse right button once, choose allow blocked content after that
choose yes. When users follow the above steps, they will be able to use the exercise.
How to use the website? provides the information on using the website. This points elaborates the main navigation buttons, they are Home, Exercise,
Help, and Contact. Besides the buttons, the writer put four animations which represented the function of each button. The four animations were home.gif,
exercise.gif, help.gif, and contact.gif. The size of each of the animation was 95 x 44 pixels.
How to practice using the exercise? Provides users with the steps that users have to notice when they are using the website. There were five steps in this
part which will help users on how to use the website correctly. The most important information of in this part is that users have to take the exercise from
unit 1 and move to the next exercise which is unit 2, etc. Rules on using the website provides the rules used in the exercise. Users
need to pay attention to the rules which was divided into 2 parts; they were rules for first time users and for other users. For the first time users, they have to start
from unit 1 and move to the next unit without skipping any units. For other users, they have to continue their last unit and they have to keep in mind that they
determine their own vocabulary achievement. In this part, the writer also put the Contact link in case the users have something to ask.
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The last part of the page is closed with an animation named stop.gif. The 91 x 90 pixels animation was linked to the Help page to ease users whenever they
wanted to go to the top of the page without having to scroll up. d. Contact Page
Contact page is the page where users can send their message through email to the writer. There were two parts in the page, About the designer and How to
contact me?. About the designer provides users with the information about the designer of the website while the How to contact me? provides users with an
email link. From this page users can send their message to the designer by clicking on the email address which was linked to ibehsuitamyahoo.com. The
writer also put a 90 x 91 pixels animation named sendmessage.gif to symbolize the message link. This page was also used to send users’ reflection after using the
exercises. e. Exercise Unit
There are eight 8 units in the website. The primary unit page is designed using Macromedia Dreamweaver while the activities are made using Hot Potatoes
6.2. The page title was put on the left side while the navigation buttons were put on the right side in the same table. The navigation buttons were Home, Exercise,
Help, Contact, and Next exercise. The units were divided into four subject contents; they were Preparation, Vocabulary Focus, Learning from Input and
Output, and Reflection. In Reflection, users will have to read the vocabulary which was presented in the table and they have to understand the part of speech. There
were 2 tables in this part, the first table was colored 8080FF and it had the size
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784 x 32 pixels which was divided into 4 cells with the size 196 x 32 pixels. The second table was divided into 4 cells with the color properties of F550E9 for the
first cell, FFFF00 for the second cell, 00CCFF for the third cell, and FF9900 for the fourth cell.
Vocabulary Focus helps users to understand the vocabulary presented in the exercise units, in this part users will have two kind of exercise, the first was
using the Indonesian equivalent and the second using English equivalent. The writer made a link to Hot Potatoes named vocabularyfocusA.jmt,
vocabularyfocusB.jcw, then the file vocabularyfocusB.jcw was linked to comprehensioninput “title of the recording”.jqz. In the Hot Potatoes page, the
writer put Content button and Next exercise button without back button, the reason was to prevent the users from correcting the previous activities and to make sure
that users do not skip any of the activities. Learning from Input and Output helps users to practice their Listening
Input, Writing Output, and Speaking Output. In this part, users will be linked to Hot Potatoes page named comprehensioninput “title of the recording”.jqz. In
the Hot Potatoes page, users were given a recording and they had to comprehend the recording. Then users will be linked to comprehensioninput “name of the
activity”.jqz. This listening activity was also linked to vocabularyfocusB.jcw. Next they have to apply the vocabulary they had learned to create dialogues or
written works, and then they have to perform their works they had made.
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Reflection provides learners with the free space to share their feeling after doing the exercise, in this part the writer provided link to Contact page to ease
users to send their reflection. On the last part of the page, the writer provided the learners with a
sentence “You have to believe that you can” to motivate them.