Patty A. Macey
CIS 205 02
Homework #5
For this assignment I examined the following Web sites: www.siteownersdesign.com (took way too long to load but looked interesting); www.popinteractive.com (nice); www.monsterwebdesign.com (slow and a bit confusing); www.mwds.net (also slow but looked interesting too); www.lucidimages.net (nice site too). Of these I decided to evaluate “popinteractive” as the best and “mwds” as the worst for the following reasons.
BEST
While it was hard to choose, I chose “POP” as the best site I examined. The company name for www.popinteractive.com is POP Interactive Inc. POP was founded by Peter Barzo and Deborah Christie. I couldn’t find an author name but assume many of the staff share this duty. I feel this site offered a lot of valuable information such as a portfolio, information about POP, information on their staff and the history of POP. They have a Newsroom with links to news relating to Websites and design. They even give you an opportunity to work for them by listing any openings and give an option of applying. I felt this site was quite attractive and felt they made nice use of the chosen colors. This site loaded fast and offered a lot of information. They also have an extensive list of Newsletters loaded with tips for Web Weavers. I felt this site was very easy to use and navigate. I really like this site so it was hard to find something wrong with it. However, after printing a page I realized that the printed copy was hard to read in some of the areas due to the color choices that I liked so well (they read well on screen!). Also another area of improvement may be to add more graphics. I think a few images could add some extra spice to this site.
WORST
As all the sites I examined had some real nice qualities about them, it was hard to choose a “worst” site. However, I chose the www.mwds.net site as the worst. The company name for this site is Mitchell Web Design Services. No author name available here either. This site also contains many services including a Portfolio, Events, Web Design Links, Business Tips of the Week, etc. It was easy to use, had a lot of valuable information, and navigated well. The main reason I chose this site as the worst was because one of the pages never did load completely. The second reason was that it just wasn’t a very attractive site. If they added/changed their colors and fixed the loading problem, this site would be very nice too.