Web Site Research

www.tnop.com

I really like the graphics and the illustrations on this website. All the graphics on the website have been really well produced with nice bright colours and clean lines making the pages stand out. I did find that at first i found the web site confusing and hard to understand as there is a lot going on in the index page which makes the site look a bit cluttered. Once i figured out where all different parts on the web site where i started to have a look around the portfolio. When there i found that the nice graphics are carried on through out the web site and has done some very nice graphics for his portfolio.


















From this website I feel I have learn't that having nice bright and clean graphics can make a web site look very good and also stand out. This is because the bright colours and clean graphics attract your eye and your attention. However this is all well and good, but also over loading a page and not making it easy to understand how to navigate the site can put visitors off and make them go else where as they want to be able to browse easily.

















www.eccentris.com

This website has been produced purely using flash. The first thing I noticed about this website is the fact that it has an intro page, but the enter here link isn't every visible. This means it is hard to find unless you read the text that it is at the bottom of. Once inside the website it is very clean and interesting. The site being built in flash means that they can have a lot more interactive things than a static html website. They developed this well by incorporating sound by making an audio player on the web site. They have also used flash to its potential by having a lot of transitions or visual movements on the page.
































Here you can see a nicely made piece of user interaction. There is a tab at the top of the page called Filters that the user can click and then more tabs appear. From there the user can chose the different tabs to change the look of the website making it more appealing to to a wider audience. This also make the site more enjoyable to look at and to view.

I think there are a few downsides to the design of this website. The main thing being I feel the actual content or reason for the website isn't very easy to find meaning people just finding the website wouldn't understand very easily what the website is about. I also think the text on the website isn't very well presented as it is a light grey on a white background making the content hard to see and tiring to read. Also making the website entirely in flash makes the website not very accessible due to the restrictions with search engines and also screen readers. I think they may have added the splash page to the website so that the search engines will be able to find the html splash page to help with this restriction.