Response to Holley Schmecks Chptr 17 & 18 blog

Holley mentioned that she always gets nervous before giving a presentation. I too get nervous before giving presentations. I thought the book had an excellent idea to help you deal with being nervous. The book suggested that you take the time before the presentation to talk to your listeners informally. This is great because it gives you a chance to talk to them in a relaxed atmosphere. Then when you get up to do your presentation it will seem less likely that you are speaking to strangers. This also aides in using a conversational tone.

She also talked about wanting to get information from a website quickly. If she cannot find the information quickly she will just go to another site. I've heard that you should design the site so that people can get to what they need within three clicks. This seems reasonable for most sites. I think this can be achieved by using links on the home page that make it easy to navigate the site.