Scenario
Odysseus has taken pictures with his digital camera and (barely) managed to put them onto his computer. Now he wants to show his friends, but doesn't know how to go about doing it. He uses TechWizard to find the information he needs to accomplish his task.
Jesse's Sketches
Sketch 1
This first design features much more of a "guided intro" style to the front page than the others. In general, there's a lot of emphasis on finding the right tutorial by skill level. This design features large buttons, and links will be very prominent (no image links that aren't obviously buttons, for instance). This is to make the site more elderly friendly, since they don't know the cues that younger users are used to from growing up navigating the internet. A dictionary is also put front and center and extra dictionary functionality is included to make them more at home with the "technical" terms they will be reading.[S
[Sketch 1]
Sketch 2
More or less a standard website design, it features large category selectors on the front page to (hopefully) funnel users to the tutorials they are looking for. The content surrounding these selectors would probably be frame content that would show up on every page.
[Sketch 2]
Sketch 3
This design is centered around the idea of tasks. A task is a set of tutorials that link together to accomplish something. Tasks not featured on the front page would be listed on a page with functionality to narrow down the results. There'd also be a way to view individual tutorials, but they would not be the focus.
[Sketch 3]