Web Design

After Friday's class discussion and reading the two Eres texts on website design, I looked through a few of the websites I frequently visit for some of the telltale errors or great design points.

www.examiner.net

Con-The navigation points are in all-caps.

Pro-The links are red, not blue. 

Pro-Everything seems to be left aligned.

www.kansascity.com

Con-www.kansascity.com is center, while everything else is left aligned.

Pro-Easy to navigate through with consistent template.

Pro-Easy to tell apart ads and stories.

www.mizzou.edu

Pro-everything is left aligned

Pro- everything lines up, use of columns

Pro-no moving parts or advertisements

-Brad Fischer