Analyze Web Sites

Since I started doing classes last semester I have found that I analyze most sites that I visit. I find things that I like and things that I dislike. It can become very time consuming when I am just browsing through sites, but I enjoy doing it. Now that it is an assignment I try to find the worse sites that I can and check them out.

When it comes to bad web sites I do a search to try and find the worse sites out there and of course everybody has their opinions about what are bad designed web sites. I look at a lot of different sites when I do this search. When I first checked this site out it was just a strip down the middle of the page. Now it has information down the left side. The site I picked is http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/. No it is not pleasing to look at. This page has to much movement in different directions for me and then add the sparkles and wow. The color scheme is pretty vivid and it doesn’t work for colorblindness. Not to sure if you would call the items on the left navigation and if that is navigation, it needs some work. I can’t say that I really liked anything about this site and what I liked least is the color scheme, navigation and lack of content. This site is done with tables and not CSS and it didn’t validate. It has 40 errors and 5 warnings.

I decided to take a chance on a site that we all use. I enjoy using this site. It is a very nicely designed site and the navigation is great and easy to use. It downloads quickly. The color scheme is very appealing and it works for people with color blindness. This site is designed using both tables and CSS which works great within this site. Does it validate? No. It didn’t do to bad. It has 23 errors and 9 warnings. The site is http://www.csi.edu/ . I just checked the front page of this site for validation. I think we will all agree that this is a great site and easy to navigate.

The next site that I decided to check out is another one that I use and I am sure that a lot of us do. I didn’t sign in I just worked off of the main page just to see how it checked out. It is pleasing to look at and the navigation is easy to maneuver. This site works for color blindness. I checked to see if they used tables or CSS and I couldn’t find any tables and it looks like all the JavaScript and CSS is done within the HTML. I don’t know how they can keep it updated. This site doesn’t validate either. The front page has 129 errors and 25 warnings. I have to say that I enjoy this site, but sometimes people put so much on their personal layouts that it is time consuming when it comes to downloads. This site is http://www.myspace.com/.

I am sure that there is a lot of sites that don’t validate and the navigation don’t work and the download time is terrible, but we continue to use them. Hopefully when one of use get to the point that we can design sites for clients, we will remember the things that we have learned from our instructors and courses.