Website Evaluation

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The following evaluates Honda.com, Coca Cola.com, CNN.com and BBC.com. The evaluation emphasizes on the homepage standards, graphic layout, web design and color and fonts associated with the each website.

CNN.com

Home Page
As we know that first impression is always critical, a homepage of a website sets the standard to the user and gives an idea how the site is going to be. In the case of CNN, the homepage is well designed for targeted users. In this case, target users are people 18 years or older. This site does not contain very fancy or colorful fonts as there are in sites that targets people under the age of 18.

Design Aspects of the Home Page
One important feature of web site design is ease of navigation. In the case of CNN.com, the left navigation bar is visible to the user every time they browse through different pages. Another design aspect of the page is letting the user know where they are when they browse through the website. In this case, as the user clicks through the navigation bar, and reaches a particular section, they can easily see in bold red letters on the top of the page in which section they are at the present moment.

Fonts
One important part of any professional website is their choice of fonts on what they are trying to present. In the case of Cnn.com, the choice of fonts is very legible and perfect for the purpose it serves. There is consistent use of the same font through the site. Font sizes and colors are well used. The color is not very flashy or dull and it compliments the background and stands out for the user to read easily. The font size is increased to emphasize particular news and colors are appropriately assigned to the type of news.



Flaws
One of the flaws that could be pointed out in the homepage is the amount of information that is being thrown at the user. It can be observed in the pictures above (which is only the homepage), that the user has too much information to look t...