This is a blog for the seniors in CIT. Hopefully we'll gain insight into our world and have fun in the process!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
College has it Right!
When I look at good websites I don’t see a bunch of different colors and words on the home page. When I look at Evolution and Natural Science I see boxes all different colors each with a lot of words in them. The home page is wicked long, which I think you should only have to scroll down a little bit, but have links to other pages that say everything that it says in the boxes. Every box has different types of font, which I believe it should be only one or two different fonts. If I was someone looking for information about evolution and natural science and I clicked on this page, I would click the back button right away because this website is way too busy, with all the different colors, fonts, and is very confusing. There are a few links, when you click on them it is even more confusing and difficult. The background color is very ugly too. I also found a couple of spelling errors, which isn’t good. Overall, I believe that this website is not a good website at all.
Website Complexity
I have found two websites that demonstrate these two characteristics. Aeropostale is a very easy to use website. Everything is neatly setup for your convenience. So navigation is not a hassle. It also has everything neatly displayed so that you see exactly what you want. H&M’s website is very complex and hard to use. They don’t display in a neat and organized manner. As well as very hard to navigate through. You never know what is coming up. The links below will navigate you to these two very different websites.
Aeropostale
H&M
Bad vs. Good
Bad:
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
This is labeled as a bad website because of how the title is animated and that you can barely read it on the website. There are many flaws to the website with the background being too busy for the person to concentrate on what’s on the website itself. There are way too many animations for this website. There are way too many advertisements that are not useful for this website.
Good:
This is labeled as a good website because everything is placed evenly. It is also the same font size except the important things that they want to advertise. Yahoo used their white space up evenly and didn’t putt useless stuff in just to fill space. They have everything in the right places and they show consistency in their way of creating this website. All the links are evenly distributed and are working right. There are more words because it’s like a news website and there are some picture’s for the understanding of the words.
Website Readability
I also came across a website that I felt does not show examples of easy-to-read text it’s a website about Evangel Cathedral. I think that this website is really overwhelming to the eye, everything is moving around and hard to focus on what you’re trying to look at and read. When you click the links on the left side once you enter the website it takes a minute to actually open the links I also feel that this website is not suitable for the general topic of the actual website.