Domestic appliances - Other websites.

Because I am making a website for a domestic appliances company, I have decided to look at websites that currently stock those things, to see if there is a popular theme with them, and whether they all stick to some kind of rule. So, I first looked at the Bosch website.

This site is very white, and very clean. Everything seems to be alligned right. This may be because people who are shopping on this site, want clean and orderly because it is for their home. The navigation was pretty simple, you could get mostley everywhere from the index page, and the nav bar being blue helps it stand out from the rest of the white.

The next site I looked at was Rapid, in Liverpool.

Again, you can see that white is used a lot, and the parts that they want you to see instantly, are a very stand out colour. Having the header dark, and the navigation a different colour helps the customer to see where it is they are going, because this isn't a kind of website you could just sit and browse at 4 in the morning because you can't be bothered to go to bed, you come on a site like this because you want something specific, and a well laid out navigation bar can help you achieve what it is you are looking for.

Lastley, I looked at Gillamans.

It is the same story here it seemed. White content, with a stricking navigation bar.


This has definietly helped me start to formulate a plan for my own site, given the nature of what is going to be put on the site, and what the target audience will be looking for.