1.) http://www.studybass.com/ (well organized)
2.) http://www.cracked.com/ (could use work)
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1.) StudyBass.com is a tutorial site for beginner bass lessons. Since it serves an audience that is most likely unfamiliar with an/the instrument, and also may be (young and) inexperienced with the internet itself, a fairly simple and easy-to-navigate design format is used throughout the site. Each page looks largely the same, and follows an almost identical design. Main links and links to other lesson guides are present on each page, while the relevant information is located right in the middle of each page, with some peripheries to each side. The only thing to watch for is in a given lesson, a user can choose whether to look at the lesson itself, and exercise, a quiz, and exemplary songs by using respective tabs at the top of the lesson under the title. The tabs aren't very big or emphasized, so a casual user can overlook them.
2.) Cracked.com is a comedy website with a host of contributors and fans submitting and commenting on humorous articles, images, videos, and the like. While there is are article archives (in reverse chronological order, as well as a popular and greatest hits list), author archives, and an interactive "category" list of recent articles, the design layout of the homepage looks unplanned, and while there are plenty of good ideas to help the user, they are too scattered to different corners of the page to be ideally effective. That isn't to say that the site is unnavigable--it is--but the casual user may have to fumble their way through the site to find something they are looking for or are interested in, especially as compared to a site with a simpler and more effective design, such as StudyBass.com.
Showing posts with label Palmquist. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Palmquist
The overarching themes in Palmquist's chapter were design and organization of a webpage, and how the features of online design provides a different experience from print documents. Short descriptions of Links, Information Flags, Pop-up Pages, and Digital Illustrations follow, as well as the impact that they have on online information, as compared to printed information, and the ways that they better serve the audience. The comparisons are quite straightforward and the ways that they serve the audience are nothing surprising (having even just a basic general concept of each online aspect would allow some deduction about how it would work differently, and in some cases, better than, print).
The following section about page organization was also fairly simple, although the illustrations became less clear in what they were trying to communicate until the reader had read through the explaning section of text. Analogies to a printed page document were helpful, though, and the section ultimatley does a good job of showing exactly why site structure and organization is very important to serving an audience.
The last section gave guidelines to create a simple and effective (if basic) site format, and also shows an actual sample website to demonstrate effective use of headers, captions, fonts, links, illustrations, and the like. With a concrete, visible example right in front of the reader, the chapter is able to drive its point home and communicate quite clearly and effectively how website design and organization are important and influential in regard to effectiveness and audience.
The following section about page organization was also fairly simple, although the illustrations became less clear in what they were trying to communicate until the reader had read through the explaning section of text. Analogies to a printed page document were helpful, though, and the section ultimatley does a good job of showing exactly why site structure and organization is very important to serving an audience.
The last section gave guidelines to create a simple and effective (if basic) site format, and also shows an actual sample website to demonstrate effective use of headers, captions, fonts, links, illustrations, and the like. With a concrete, visible example right in front of the reader, the chapter is able to drive its point home and communicate quite clearly and effectively how website design and organization are important and influential in regard to effectiveness and audience.
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