Website Critique

A good website is a site that follows the 10 Elements and Principals or Web Design. I will focus on 3 of the principals to critique two sites on whether it's a good site or a bad site. In my opinion, Wikipedia is a good site because:

1)It doesn't make the user think. It gives the user instant information by typing what they want to search in the space provided and it gives them the information they're looking for.

2) The site is easily searchable. If you were to type in Pizza Hut and click the "search" button it will give you the search results and give you a choice as to which one do you click,or if you are sure that if you type in Pizza Hut and get the restaurant chain that it will take you right to the page if you click the "go" button.

3) It's also not afraid of the white space. Because it's an encyclopedia site, it specializes in providing information in an organized and efficient manner through it's use of headings,sub-heading, as well as visual imagery.

For theses reasons, I give Wikipedia praise as a well structured site.

Now I site that I have visited a few times in the past is a site called projectfree.tv. Even thought it's not an information site, it is lacking in some of the elements of web design.

1)It doesn't focus the users attention. The attention of the users eyes are drawn everywhere between the bright orange background and the long list of tv shows available to watch in bright blue print. The colours don't contrast each other and they over-use the red arrow icon.

2)Keep it simple. This may or may not be the designers fault but the useless ads on the page make the sight look more busy than it actually is once you scroll down.

3)Don't waist the user patience. A few times I've gone watch a specific episode of a show that I watch only to have to scroll down a big long page just to find it. The user shouldn't have to spend all there time tracking down a specific episode when this task should take 30 seconds to a minute.

Anyway, I digress. For these reasons I praise wikipedia as a good site and say projectfree.tv needs to update their site. K later ;P