Yes! I really enjoyed using a blog in this class to do assignments. This is my first experience with blogging and I wasn't so sure about it at first, but I really learned to enjoy it throughout the semester. In fact, I am even considering making my own personal blog after this semester is over. Crazy, I know. I enjoyed posting assignments on the blog because it seemed more convenient than turning in a written assignment and it was cool to see what everyone else had to say in their posts.
I really enjoyed reading what my classmates had to say on their blogs. It was nice to get a feel of the different ideas that everyone had on different issues that they had encountered with the different papers that we wrote throughout the semester. So in that way, blogging was very beneficial. I also feel like it helped me get to know everyone in the class a little better and it helped me see that everyone has a unique voice and style that comes across in their writing. So, overall I really enjoyed using a blog for this class and I honestly am going to miss writing these little blog posts each week. Here's to you, little writing blog!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Analysis of A Website
Alright, so the website that I chose to analyze is nutrition.gov, which I thought was ineffective. Here it goes:
-Alignment: This website uses center alignment which is gives the website a very formal look. I guess it is a .gov website so it should be more formal looking, but this website also is very boring to look at because of the use of center alignment. On the other hand, everything is aligned with something else in a very logical manner and the information is organized very clearly, which is good. I just think that they could have experimented more with left and right alignment to make the home page more interesting to look at.
-Contrast: This web page doesn't really place emphasis on any certain text or image, so my eyes aren't drawn to anything right off the bat. Since nothing really catches my attention by being different and standing out, I don't know what information is the most important. They also don't use colors or fonts that really stand out and catch my attention.
-Proximity: I guess I kind of talked about this aspect with alignment, but the website does a great job of grouping information together and grouping it together in a very logical manner. In that way, I think it is effective. But also, nothing really stands out on the page, so it makes it difficult to know what is the most important information on the page.
-Repetition: There is not a whole lot of repetition in the design of this website. They kind of repeat colors and fonts, but it is mostly dull colors such as navy blue and gray and boring kinds of fonts that aren't very interesting to look at. There is a lot of text on the page as well, which doesn't help it to look unified and simple.
-Composition: I thought that the placement of the picture on the web page could have been better in order to create a better visual effect. It is pretty small and it is centered near the top of the page. I also thought that they could use a better picture to correlate with nutrition that could better represent the purpose of the website. I don't think that the "rule of thirds" was applied here, but I might be wrong.
*I feel like a pessimist now after writing that, but I really do love nutrition! I just happen to think that their website is ineffective haha.
-Alignment: This website uses center alignment which is gives the website a very formal look. I guess it is a .gov website so it should be more formal looking, but this website also is very boring to look at because of the use of center alignment. On the other hand, everything is aligned with something else in a very logical manner and the information is organized very clearly, which is good. I just think that they could have experimented more with left and right alignment to make the home page more interesting to look at.
-Contrast: This web page doesn't really place emphasis on any certain text or image, so my eyes aren't drawn to anything right off the bat. Since nothing really catches my attention by being different and standing out, I don't know what information is the most important. They also don't use colors or fonts that really stand out and catch my attention.
-Proximity: I guess I kind of talked about this aspect with alignment, but the website does a great job of grouping information together and grouping it together in a very logical manner. In that way, I think it is effective. But also, nothing really stands out on the page, so it makes it difficult to know what is the most important information on the page.
-Repetition: There is not a whole lot of repetition in the design of this website. They kind of repeat colors and fonts, but it is mostly dull colors such as navy blue and gray and boring kinds of fonts that aren't very interesting to look at. There is a lot of text on the page as well, which doesn't help it to look unified and simple.
-Composition: I thought that the placement of the picture on the web page could have been better in order to create a better visual effect. It is pretty small and it is centered near the top of the page. I also thought that they could use a better picture to correlate with nutrition that could better represent the purpose of the website. I don't think that the "rule of thirds" was applied here, but I might be wrong.
*I feel like a pessimist now after writing that, but I really do love nutrition! I just happen to think that their website is ineffective haha.
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