“EZCREATE”The Easy Solution for Web

Page Designers(Web Snap Project)

byAarthi, Joy and Sanjini

Our Project-An Overview

• Databases for web-pages are huge• Problems arise for the web site designer• We attempt to mitigate the load on the

Web site designer• Consequence-The “EZCREATE” Tool

Motivation

Overwhelmed designer

Currently……..

“Our Aim”• Reduce Monotony and burden for the

designer• Bring more life into the final web pages

through the “Visualization” concept

Our SolutionInteraction Sequences

LIST

TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILSLIST

LIST TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILS

…….. TABLE LENS,SPOT FIRE, DETAILS

Implementation• The EZCREATE Tool has been

developed in JAVA• Platform independent• User-friendly Interface

Demo

Yahoo!!!!!!

Features of our tool• Database overview

• Presenting the essential information• Reducing the information overload

Features of our tool• List to List interaction

Features of our tool• List to Details interaction

Features of our tool• List to Child List interaction

Proof of the pudding

Proof of the pudding

Pilot Study Results(ratings b/w 1-5)

USERS /ATTRIBUTES

Ease Of Use

User Satisfaction

Learnability Total Points

User 1(Designer)

4 4 3 11

User 2(Designer)

4 5 4(Used Help)

13

User 3(Normal)

5 5 N/A 10

User 4(Normal)

5 5 N/A 10

Advantages of our tool• DESIGNERS PERSPECTIVE

– No queries– Need not bother about information update once

interaction is defined– Allows room for creativity– Lesser effort in creating similar web-pages– Visualizations help target on representation format of

the data• USERS PERSPECTIVE

– Novice users can use it easily, no knowledge of queries and database functioning required

– Users can finally assimilate information very easily

Future Work• Can define more interaction sequences

•predefined in the tool•user defined

• Work on displaying the final pages on a web page

• Can incorporate some Visualization tools to visualize the database

• Query Visualization for the database can be provided

Related Work• North, Snap Together Visualization• Ben Shneiderman, Christopher

Williamson and Christopher Ahlberg, Dynamic queries: database searching by direct manipulation

• David Durand, Paul Kahn, MAPA: A system for Inducing and Visualizing Hierarchy in Websites