...case study, I decided to study the New Britain Herald's website. I chose this website because I interned with the newspaper over the summer as a sports reporter. I was able to write stories with them and see how the staff worked in the newsroom. My boss, Brad Carroll, was actually the one who worked on the website and uploaded all the stories. I found the Herald to be timely with their websites and every day they posted on their social media pages meaning that they had a consistent online presence. With such a reliable presence, their website should have a consistent, clean theme. After reviewing their website, although it is an accessible site there are still areas where the website can improve on. With the world evolving and turning the web for the news, it is important the website of newspapers is both attractive and user-friendly for the audience. Overview of the website...
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...WEBSITE EVALUATION Not every church will have every ministry. If they do not have a particular ministry, just indicate this in the space provided. Church #1 Name: Saddleback Community Church Church #1 Website: www.saddleback.com 1. Ministry is…praying for others. a. Does the church have a prayer ministry? What does it look like? Saddleback Community Church does have a prayer ministry that is fairly easy to get to. It is located under Care & Help and listed as Prayer Ministry. My only negative belief is that the main page has too much going on with to many other pages from it that it can be distracting and hard to find what you want if you are not sure where to look for it. Otherwise, they Prayer Ministry page itself is great as it is simple and easy to use. They have a simple message about the ministry, a number to call if you need help or to submit a request, and a Prayer request form on the page you can fill out and submit allowing for many different avenues to submit a request to them. 2. Ministry is…following Jesus’ example by practicing spiritual mentoring and multiplying. a. Does the church have a strategy for evangelism? After reviewing the website, you can tell that the ministries are built (including the training offered) around evangelism. However, there is no specific strategy layed out on the website about evangelism for the church. The closest I could find was a reference to Rick Warren’ s book “The Purpose Driven Life”. b. Does the church...
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...Private sector-New Look is a private retail store. It was founded by Tom Singh in 1969. Since then the company has rapidly expanded and now operates across a chain of over 1,000 stores internationally and a staff of over 30,000. When you first go to the website there are many links to take you where you want to go on the website. There is also a search bar so you can go directly to the item you want to look at. The website promotes the business as it shows free deliveries and returns. It is tidy, organized and offers lots of information. It uses plain colours and still pictures but the pictures used show of the clothes the shop is selling and the pictures are still so you can have a good look at what the models are wearing. You can also scroll down the page and see what the clothing looks like on. At the bottom of the page there is a hyperlink to their catalogue. They also have social media links to their Facebook and Twitter with an option to share their website, this is good for marketing and promoting the business. The links at the top of the page take you to different places within the website and once you’ve picked an item there is an option to choose your size then either add it to your basket or save it to your wish list for a later date, this is convenient for the business and the consumers as it keeps the customers on the website for longer and the customer can click on many items then decide later on what they want to buy. Voluntary sector-RSPCA The RSPCA...
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...The Method: What we are doing is, we find website in niches that you have to choose and that are not mobile optimized (responsive)* yet. *This means that they do not have a mobile optimized version of their website, i.e. users with mobile devices will have a hard time browsing their website. We sell them mobile websites. But wait – do I need coding skills here? No, absolutely not. The trick is, that you have a really great pitch. Of course you can sell the mobile website whenever possible, for example if you go into a bar, just search their website and if it is not displayed in a nice way, go and talk to the owner and sell them a better site. But in this Tutorial we focus on E-Mailing them.  So here comes the Step by Step Guide. . 1) Take a sheet of Paper and write down the niches you would like to take, for example: a. Restaurants b. Bars c. Hotels d. SwimmingPools e. Dentists/Doctors f. Etc. We are looking for STATIC sites here, best sites are sites that do not have dynamic content and complicated stuff like self-made booking systems etc. Take easy sites that only have static information like the above mentioned ones. . 2) Now, as you got your first niche, we are looking for a first city, for example choose a Canadian City like Kingston (Ontario) or any other city in any country of the world. You should make a list with many cities here, too. And then use a. City1Niche1 b. City2Niche1 c. City3Niche1 d. City X Niche 1 e. City1Niche2 f. City...
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...to site development. Why do you feel each of these is important to a successful plan? When designing a website it’s important to understand the objective of the website being designed. Is the website being used as an information portal? Or is it being used as a way of generating a call to action or other goal? If the website is a shopping cart, is the site designed properly for ease of use and customer performance? What type of website to use is very important also? What is the customer looking for when they arrive at the site? The audience is the key to getting it correct, and if the demographics of the users are wrong the site will never prosper and be a good tool for either data or information. Designing a site takes time and patience along with research. Easy to use web pages gives the user a fast and informative way to surf your website while finding what they need and allowing the user to have a wonderful experience. When this happens the user is more likely to return to your website and tell others as well. Answer 2 I think three things that you should consider are: What the users want when they arrive at your site, Do they need customer support or troubleshooting help or are they going to be purchasing things, and finally Are they going to be reading or searching for information. You have to keep your customers wants first. If you start straying from what they want because you wanted to try and make it more appealing to...
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...indicate this in the space provided. Church #1 Name: Christ Fellowship Church #1 Website: http://gochristfellowship.com/ 1. Ministry is…praying for others. a. Does the church have a prayer ministry? What does it look like? A community of prayer called the Traffic Ministry Team. They give you links to get started as well as a form so that they can contact if that is a more comfortable preferance. 2. Ministry is…following Jesus’ example by practicing spiritual mentoring and multiplying. a. Does the church have a strategy for evangelism? Yes, many class room and personal opportunities to participate in many different levels of evangelism, including the Hispanic community. b. Does the church have a strategy for discipleship? Yes, Discipleship is obviously important to this church. c. Briefly describe what they look like. Evangelism opportunities are available, through open invitations to current planned evangelical trips, as well as classes teaching about their trips to come and what their purpose is. Discipleship opportunities are available through extending classes to the Hispanic community, Seniors, providing special events throughout the week. 3. Ministry is…leading small groups. a. Does the church have a small group ministry? What can learn about their small group ministry from their website? Yes, they have group ministries and not only provide a way to search a way to find one...
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...document | Layout/ Professionalism | Style/ Language | Content: Information included | Immediate impact/ memorable | In keeping with the image of the organisation | Website- Coca Cola | The Coca Cola website is professional in a very fun way. For example they have all the information included that the audience will need, such as information about the business, information about the products, competitions that they are running, promotions and offers etc. But all of this information is presented in a really fun way. For example on the website they have red bubbles all over the page and each of these bubbles has one of these bits of information on them. If you hover over these bubbles then they take you to linked ages which give you more information also presented in fun ways such as videos. | The language used in the coca cola is quite complex and would only be understood by teenagers and older. Although Coca Colas target audience is everyone from children to the elderly they have made the language hard for children to understand because children wouldn’t visit their website and would instead be relying on their parents to buy them the product. Therefore it will be the adults visiting the website to look at the products and offers and not the children. | There is a whole range of information on the coca cola website about the products, competitions, business itself etc. They have information about all of the different coca cola products. For example they talk about the prices about...
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...sometimes. Almost any person can post a website, which can ultimately provide you with unreliable, and biased information. This puts a hardship on you to find the quality of each website you use. I will give you a few examples of how I determine whether a website is reliable or not, or if I would choose to use a website. One thing I look for on a website is the author. The different ways I look into this is to look for “more about the author” this will be at the top, bottom, or sidebar of a webpage. If there is no author of the webpage, I wouldn’t use it. You will look into the type of information the author provides, such as their expertise on the subject. You can look into if they have any education, or if they have any experience in the subject you are looking into. Try googling (a web page for looking things up) the author and see what else the author has written, see if they have any reviews, and look into what their name comes up in to see if that site may be reliable or not. Another way I can see if a site is reliable is who published the site. The suffix on the domain name (the three letter part that comes after the website and after the “.”) can say a lot about a website. This doesn’t guarantee reliable source but you like to look for .gov, .org, or .edu. These are normally a more reliable source. .org= nonprofit; .edu= educational; .gov= government and the most common .com= commercial. Then you just want to ask yourself questions. What is the main purpose of the site your...
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...Website Analysis Paper Website Analysis Paper I am going to evaluate the page layout, navigation, and performance based on my knowledge of www.worlds-worst-website.com, website that from my knowledge was designed to be a bad designed website. However I for this paper I will treat it as if it was a website to give facts or information about things on the internet or world. I well discuss what the website has as content, who was this content made for, the way it navigates, and how it can be improved. This website is really bad so my goal is to try to come up for a way this website is bearable. There are meaning things wrong with this website that make it bad. What is on www.worlds-worst-website.com? Well there are many links on this site that take you to different websites. Two of the links send you to same website just to two different pages of that site. One like seems to take you to a game that has something to do with Obama. One is just a video of cats. Then there are links on different dinosaurs and one link about bicycles. There is also a link that makes you take a quiz of a show. This sites content is well everywhere. There is no actual main content on this site. There is just random links to different sites and it makes the site more like a share link site if anything. I am also going to say that the websites it sends you to are better than this site; however I still do not think they are better or really look that impressive. The look really old and need to...
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...Unit 14 Web Design - Website Evaluation Firstly, my website meets the need of the users, clients and audience as it has information regarding Newcastle upon Tyne. As well as, there are contact details and images of the locations which is significant as this will allow the reader to be visually aware. Also, the tourist websites which I have looked at whilst evaluating the websites during Year 12 contained images and without them the presentation would appear to be dull and less appealing. Also, my user said that the website looked professional and the information was clear to read due to the use of understandable font styles and font colour. This is significant to make the text appealing because too much brightness would result in difficulty...
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...presentation Using two websites http://www.bbc.com/ and http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/, I am able observe that both sites present their content in a very good way although differently from one another given the nature of their businesses. Both sites have the ability to present their content in more than one language. The content and its presentation on the BBC websites leaves no doubt that it is a news portal. The homepage is displayed distinctively with a unique color from the rest of the pages. The other pages are also displayed with different but consistent colors throughout each particular page. Take for example the Sports page, its dominant and consistent color is yellow throughout the various sports like football, cricket, rugby, formula one and all the rest that are covered in the sports section of the BBC website. The weather page is blue in color. Likewise, the content on the BASF website also leave no doubt that it is a website for a chemical company dealing in various goods and service. The http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/ is displayed in a different but consistent color throughout the page every time it is accessed while still maintains the same look. This is a unique property of this page because no matter the change in the dominant color of the page, I was still able to know that I am visiting the BASF website each time the color changed. I think this is because of the consistency of the other properties of the website that uniquely identify BASF...
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...Week 3 Supporting Activity: Website Critique University of Phoenix Online BSA 375 Marc Portner April 29, 2012 Apple is a company that does things what appears to be the right way. Their products are brilliant! They are advanced and highly adored by many. There is a certain loyalty to their products that make them appear to be almost a cult. They thrive on simplicity of use and user experience. This is exactly what happen when you log onto their website. The experience is simple and enjoyable. Critique of Apple’s website First and foremost, I must admit, I am an Apple enthusiast. I adore their products and use them everyday. As a matter of fact, I am typing this assignment on my MacBook. However, this is not the reason I picked their website for this assignment. I picked it because it is well designed and easy to navigate. The following paragraphs are my critique of Apple’s website. Which of the six design principles do you see being utilized in this website? Provide examples. In my honest observation and opinion, Apple’s website follows the six design principles. The website is very anesthetic. The website uses a mostly white background that allows the content to be visible and appealing. The content is well laid out on the website and does not intrude with each other on the webpage. User experience is very high. This is usually what Apple thrives on, user experience. Anyone regardless if they are new to Apple products or are avid user such...
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...the following website: - - Click here to visit this fantastic site - - ©2006 Dan Thompson – All Rights Reserved -1- Basic HTML by El Passo Books v2.0 “Basic HTML” is a publication written by Dan Thompson of http://www.elpassobooks.co.uk ©2006 Dan Thompson All Rights Reserved This e-Book must not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, including electronically, by photocopying or recording unless written permission is obtained from the author. This e-Book was written in 2005/2006 and all information is/was correct at the time of writing. The author accepts no responsibility for any liabilities caused by reading this information. This e-Book is meant for informational purposes only. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the information provided within this e-Book is accurate, however the author, resellers and affiliates cannot assume responsibility for any inaccuracies within this document. ©2006 Dan Thompson – All Rights Reserved -2- Basic HTML by El Passo Books v2.0 -- Chapter 1-What is HTML? HTML stands for "Hyper Text Mark-up Language" HTML is the bricks and mortar of the WWW. Without HTML the World Wide Web could not have become as important as it is today. HTML is a document formatting language common the all computers on the WWW. html permits cross platform communication between Macs, Apples, SUNs, PCs and others to view a document in a similar way. Every webpage that you visit uses HTML in some way, you can view the HTML code behind a website in Internet...
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...The Look-Look case study discusses the online company Look-Look and their marketing research strategy to appeal to a prominent demographic in terms of fashion and apparel; the 14-30 age group. It is cited that this age group spends “$140 billion” annually on clothing and clothing related items, but the age group’s opinion was previously unheard, unrecognized, un-acknowledged, or even participated in trends. As a member of this age demographic, I have always noticed that it is vital to consider the biases of the majority. Generally, there is a very distinct group of influencers and followers. It has always been true in terms of the music industry, as teenagers and young adults want to know what is considered ‘cool’ or ‘trendy’ in an overall sense. Consequently, this also assists in finding the interests in specific music artists and in expressing individuality and identity; which is of great value to most people in their teenage and young adult years. Look-Look’s concept of assisting this age bracket in expressing themselves while simultaneously having them connects via online is appealing in many ways. Not only does it capture an important aspect of everyday life and fashion, it allows an immediate interaction between marketers and tastemakers over a very informal, user-friendly medium. In addition, the market segment can change very quickly over the course of weeks or months and an online platform will prevent a delay in capturing the essence of and capitalizing from the current...
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...because all information is not true and accurate. Thesis Statement This paper is to provide small effective steps to ensure that the information found on the internet is accurate and reliable. This guide is to help assess reputable websites. Surfing the WEB There is a lot of information available on the World Wide Web today. Deciphering what is accurate and creditable requires a closer look. When accessing information, these steps should be followed. First, locate the authors name, look for any credentials, locate the contact information, and what authority does the author have on this topic. Second, take note on who published the site, what links are connected to it and at the bottom of the web page look for the date of publication. Examine the domain or URL. Dot gov means a US government site, .mil means a US military site, and .edu means an accredited post secondary educational institution. Dot com means a commercial for profit site, .org means a noncommercial, not for profit entity, .net means a computer network, and .int means an international organization. Lastly, determine the sites purpose. Is it trying to sell something, persuade you, or just providing you with information. Investigating the areas will aid in evaluating websites. The author may have a PhD or be a professor but that does not make him and expert on topics not related to the field of practice or study. Taking not on the publishers helps determine the motive and correlation to the author. Looking...
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