Good Site, Bad Site (BlogPost#16)

The ten principles of web design are not to make your audience think, not to waste their time, to get their attention, to strive for exposure, makes use of effective writing, simplicity, not being afraid of white space, communication, conventions and Test often!

If you are still here and reading after that, I admire you greatly. What I have just done is both educate and bore you. I know in my last post I said I would be talking about Darker Than Black, but my school assignment made me lie.


Anyway! Today I will be doing a critique on a good website and a bad website. I will tell you why the website sucks and why you should never ever ever go on it, and why the other one is pretty darn awesome.



Let's talk eBay.
I find this site way too busy. Principle number three of web design; focus the user's attention. So why, I ask, is this site so busy?

You see the Daily Deal box, look over there. You see the Top Tech box, look over there.
Free shipping, over there.
Basketball sale, up there.
REGISTER!

Um... no.

I know that it's good to catch a user's attention but eBay is just really too busy. And everything is a different style so I get very confused looking at it. One box is green, the other plain white, and the registry box is all sparkly.

As I am writing this blog post I have to flip back to the eBay page to look at it and it is starting to make me dizzy!! I'm leaving, off to the next site we go!



The Kitsune Page is one of my favourite sites to visit because of it's simplicity and ease to navigate.
When you first get onto the home page you have a menu dropping right down the middle
of the page, and two hand-drawn images of a Kitsune.



Let's take a look at the Myths and Ancient Stories button. When you click it, the next page shows a simple menu. Which place of origin do you want the stories from?

This way you can easily find something you are searching for about Kitsune (which is a Japanese Fox Demon)

Let's cliiiiiiick..... French. We want to read a story from France about these foxes.



At the top of this page you see the articles in small font, green. If you click on one it automatically sends you down the page to the article. Or if you wish to read all of them just continue scrolling down as you read.

Well, over all I pretty much love this site. However unless you manage to levitate towards the Images section there isn't much 'scenery'.

I don't give ratings on websites but this one is relatively high.