We have JUST been told that our new project will be about web design. So, coding and all that. I'm looking forward to that! George has just also asked for some examples of good and bad websites. So lets start!
1) Google. (Good website)
Google is a great example of a really well made website. Simply because there is nothing there! All that you can really do on Google is search the web. I mean, they HAVE added a lot more, like maps, and docs, and mail and Google+, but other than that, it is such a simple design, and is REALLY simple to use. A website is successful if the user instantly knows how to use it, just by looking at it. I mean, navigation bars work to an extent, but you want to be able to get everywhere from one page, and Google is a perfect example of this. Mainly because you can get anywhere on the web FROM Google..!
2) Sixties press. (Bad website)
Wow. Just wow. I mean, this website LOOKS as though it was made in the 90's, but this was voted one of the worst websites of 2011. Where do i begin? For one, everything is placed down the left side, making the site feel trapped, and restricted. It makes you want to leave instantly, before you've even read anything. The subject matter is all about healing, and being spiritual and all that silliness, so you can see what they where trying to do when they made this site. They wanted it to be vibrant, and trippy, and psycadelic. But they failed. It just looks really dated. And not the good kind of dated, but the bad, "Wow that looks old and creaky" rather than "Wow! Thats retro so its cool!"
Using the navigation bar is pretty simple, like, you can get to all the main pages from every other page, so I suppose thats one point to Sixties press. But every time i go to a new page, the website darts about. This shows that it wasn't anchored properly, or even /div'ed properly. It looks as though someone made this site on notepad.. Which im sure they did.
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