Monday, June 29, 2009

What would encourage me to make a return visit to the website

The reason why I always return visit to this website because it has attractive colours and gesign. The second reason is I view it for more information.

THE 7 C's

1. The first C's is CONTEXT:
  • the context of this web page is AESTHETICS.
  • the aesthetics nature of this site is largely captured by visual characteristics such as colours, graphics, photographs, fonts choices, and other visually oriented features.
2. The second C's is CONTENT:
  • content refers to any digital information included on a website.
  • tie content include the message of the digital subject matter, including product, service and information offering.
  • the dimensions of this content is appeal mix.
  • this type of appeals is cognitive.
  • cognitive appeals focus on the functional aspects of the offering, including such factors as low price, reliability, availability, customer support, and degree of personalisation.
  • this web page content type is current content because it does not require frequent update.
3. The third C's is COMMUNITY:
  • there has no community in this website.
4. The forth C's is CUSTOMISATION:
  • the customisation is a ability by user.
  • the dimension of customisation of this website is personalisation because this website customisation initiated and managed by the user.
  • the personalisation is allow users to specify their preferences in content selection, context selection, and personalised tools.
  • the personalisation features is login registration, cookies, and personalised E-Mail Accounts.
5. The fifth C's is COMMUNICATION:
  • the communication refers to the dialogue between the website and its users.
  • this website communication take 2 forms that is firm-to-user, and user-to-firm.
  • the dimensions of communication of this website is Hybrid because it is a combination of broadcast and interactive communications.
6. The sixth C's is CONNECTION:
  • connection is the degree to which a given site is able to link to other sites through a hypertext jump, or hyperlink, from one webpage to another.
  • these links embendded in a webpage and are most commonly presented to the user as undeerlined and highlighted words,a picture, or a graphic.
  • clicking on the link initiates the immediate delivery of a text, graphic, or sound file. Files might live on the local server, or on a server anywhere in the world.
  • this dimension of connection of this website is links to sites.
  • the links to sites is take the user completely outside the homesite and into third-party site.
7. The last C's is COMMERCE:
  • commerce is a transactional capacity of a site or services on the site.
  • commerce capabilities are those features of the customer interface that support the various aspects of trading transactions.
  • the dimension of commerce of this website is registration, and credit card approval.
  • user registration allows a site to store credit card information, shipping and preferences.
  • credit card approval is the sites can have the ability to receive instant credit approval for credit card purchases through electronic links to credit card clearance houses.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

GOOD/ BAD FEATURE OF WEB SITE

~GOOD design features of this Web Pages:
1. Text:
  • background does not interrupt the text.
  • text is big enough to read, but not too big.
  • columns of text are narrower than in a book to make reading easier on the screen.
  • the hierarchy of information is perfectly clear.

2. Navigation:
  • navigation buttons and bars are easy to understand and use.
  • navigation is consistent throughout wed site.
  • navigation buttons and bars provide the visitor with a clue as to where they are, what page of the site they are currently on.
3. Links:
  • link colors coordinate with page colours.
  • links are underlined so they are instantly clear to the visitor.
4. Graphics:
  • buttons are not big and dorky.
  • every graphic link has a matching text link.
  • graphics and backgrounds use browser-safe colours.
5. General Design:
  • pages download quickly.
  • good use of graphic elements (photos, subheads, pull quotes) to break up large areas of text.
  • every web page in the site looks like it belongs to the same site; there are repetitive elements that carry throughout the pages.

~BAD design features of this Web Pages:

1. General Design:
  • entry page or home page that does not fit within standard browser window (800 x 600 pixels).
  • frames that make you scroll sideways.