Summary
After critiqued on four web sites, obviously showed that they
included bad and good designs. Especially the three web sites that I
chose from the list in assignment. These web site contain some of the bad
designs that can be said as a vital attack to a well designed web page. On
the other hand, although the exceptional site met nearly all the
requirements for a well designed web page, but there is still some of the
elements need to be improved. The following will conclude the good and bad
design for these four web sites.
Site-1:
How Stuff
Works
Good
Design:
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users
can easily find the topics through menu or icons and go to the desired
page.
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overall
layout is quite attractive, and provide the Search function incase
people cannot find the articles.
Bad
Design:
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poor
navigation because there isn't any links to let audiences to return to the
main page. In my case, after I read an article, then I need to press the
"Back" button on my Internet Explorer.
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Menu
function is inadequate because they just act like a normal link. For
example, "Video", "Book" in the web page.
Site-2:
Northwestern University Library
Good
Design:
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provide the navigation menu
on the left-hand side of the pages, users can navigate in a fast way. The
web site also provides the site map which is very useful.
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The layout of the web site
is very formal, like using the common color-white, give users an
sense and that is, "well this web site seems is reliable, and must can
give me what I want".
Bad
Design:
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use the grey color text on
the white background, it make the users hard to see, users need to watch
very carefully and also need to adjust the font size from their explorer.
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The author use a lot of
java scripts inside the web pages, in user consideration view, too many
java scripts will slow down the computer, since not all the students are
using fast computer, some of them maybe use some slow computers like
Pentium I 133.
Site-3:
Rolling Stone Good
Design:
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provide the navigation menu
on the left-hand side of the pages, users can navigate in a fast way. The
web site also provides the site map which is very useful.
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Use all black texts on a white color background. Users
can read the contents very easily. Other colors like yellow and red
background, the author had chosen black texts on yellow background and
white color texts on red background. The author chose the correct colors
to the page.
Bad
Design:
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Too much information on a
page, make the readers feel dizzy, the web page doesn't include any
scroll-down menus at all.
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The author use a lot of
java scripts inside the web pages, in user consideration view, too many
java scripts will slow down the computer, since not all the students are
using fast computer, some of them maybe use some slow computers like
Pentium I 133.
Exceptional:
Simslive BBS Good
Design:
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Users can apply for the membership
(free services of course) and they can adjust the settings like the style
of the web page they want, using of theme, and different kinds of
background, fonts when they are posting or replying in those forums.
.
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The
Simslive server will record all the setting which set by the users and
makes records for the members. After that, when a member revisit the page,
all the setting will be loaded from the server of Simslive, the server
will detect the cookies within the member's computer and give out the
relevant settings to the users..
Bad
Design:
To improve the
Simslive BBS
's design, the author should considerate
the other people, like the author should make the web page multi-lingual ,
because the main purpose of this web site is to deliver information, and
exchange information too, that's why need to be international.
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