Good & Bad Web Designs

Through going through the dos and dont’s of websites, top ten guidelines for homepage usability, where am i , and home page design i have developed a list of the good versus the bad features and they are as follows;

Good:

• page lengths are necessary and not too long
• everything relates well
• everything has been proofread
• type is easy to read
• type is not one block but rather several paragraphs ( not too many paragraphs)
• images are an appropriate size

Bad:

• too many animations
• too much text
• unreadable text
• nothing on the page relates or makes sense
• grammatical errors
• everything is in capital letters or bolded

These lists could go on for miles but these are just some major ones that i noticed through looking through websites and also through reading the passages that were given to help us better understand the good versus the bad of web design.

Here are two great designs:

http://wearepandr.com/

http://urbanoff.com/

The reason that these are great would be because they are creative, easy to read, and easy to use. Everything you need to know is right in front of you and easily accessible. They don’t have too much text or unreadable text and they don’t have anything i feel that is unnecessary about there website. Overall these would be two great web design ideas.

 

Here are two horrible designs:

http://www.miauk.com/

http://www.catsmeowjewelry.net/untitled1.html 

The reason that these are horrible would be because the overall look and feel of these designs are horrible and hard to read. They are not somewhat usable but so difficult to maneuver through and not easy to understand why they put what where . There are broken links on some of the pages and random text that makes no sense. I feel that these two websites give you a sense of i don’t care what i am selling or trying to portray which overall makes them a bad design.

 

Overall you can see what i mean by good versus bad .