The Internet is absolutely full of vast amounts of information, the good the bad and the ugly. Websites must compete for viewers of all different genres and must be the best if they ant to be effective and the ” Champion” Since I soon will be creating my own website about all aspects of the topic of makeup about I set out on a journey to find information, design styles, organizational approaches and ideas from existing web pages on my subject. I was actually quite surprised by what I found.
In the red corner of competition was the first website I looked at called Makeup411. It is one of the VERY few websites which I could find on the topic of makeup which wasn’t just an article or blog type writing on the topic. The first thing I noticed as it stepped into the ring was when I entered the page is the bright use of color to catch your eye. The use of color and font gives the page a “hip” feel and makes it seem as through it is aimed at the younger twenty something crowd. One thing I do not like is the fact that is has an extremely crowded homepage. Not only does it have lead articles posted but also tons of advertisements and mini articles. The homepage itself is sensory overload.
I do like how the sub pages are across the top and easily navigational. They are easily tabbed and gave me some more ideals about extra pages which I can add to my own structure of my webpage. They have a complete section about makeup in music videos which completely did not cross my mind as a medium and use. I can now add it to movies and the stage as media uses on my future site. But sadly the sub pages across the side are unmarked advertisement and I do not like the fact that they are given to the audience as fact ony to later been seen as an advertisement.
Overall I have mixed feeling about this website. I believe a website can hold a lot of information but its structure must be clean and this website is most definitely not. It is way to cluttered and just not my cup of tea I will definitely use some of the things from it to better my future website. It was a good fight but definitely not a knock out.
Since finding a website about makeup that is not an article or blog is harder than finding a needle in a haystack, no lie. It really opened my eyes to the fact that there are really not too many websites out there that cover the information I would like to put in my future website. It made me excited that I maybe pursuing new territory and my website may actually be of use to other individuals someday. Because of this I decided to take a different approach with my second website. I chose to look at a past students website that way I can see what is accomplishable with the resources I am allotted.
So stepping up in the blue corner and underdog in the internet world is a students website about the New York Jets Professional Football team and their 50th season. This website came highly recommended as a good learning tool so I decided to give it a try.
I was highly impressed with the website itself. It was clean and well organized. I found it highly efficient to navigate and was able to use it rather quickly. There was only one thing which I think I would have liked differently. I think the organization was great but in a few areas the creator combined topics which I felt could have stood on their own pages and allowed it to move smother as I navigated the site. I ended up having to go back instead of using links.
And now to the judges…. It was a tough battle but the decision is unanimous… NY Jets wins!! Overall this website kept my attention and was easier for me to use than the big name website with all of the advertisers and money. Sometimes simplicity is the key and that’s the knowledge im walking away from this fight with.
websites used
http://makeup411.com/web/
http://webpages.shepherd.edu/PDISAN01/history/index.html
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