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More Website Reviews
You
now need to review two other multimedia websites, BUT
these should be your own choice.
www.bbc.co.uk
or
www.howstuffworks.com
Try
to choose an interesting site that appeals to a large audience and has got
images / links that are easy to identify and copy and is easy to identify the
target audience.
If you decide to write a review on a website of your own choice you must download this review form and complete it showing the full details for your chosen multimedia website: Own Multimedia Website Review Form
NOTE: Your teacher suggest that you choose one or more of the six websites shown below. Each has a ready prepared review form to use (courtesy of Mark Sibson):
www.alton-towers.co.uk - review form can be downloaded here
www.cars.com - review form can be downloaded here
www.bbc.co.uk - review form can be downloaded here
www.crayola.com - review form can be downloaded here
www.lordoftherings.net - review form can be downloaded here
www.mcfc.co.uk - website of Manchester City Football Club - review form can be downloaded here
NOTE: If you support a different football/sports team you can - if you wish - change the review to suit the club you suppirt - you will need to copy and paste 5 or 6 images into the first column of the review form to replace the ones in the Manchester City review document....
You
MUST
complete these details for the website you are reviewing:
Website
address:
Name
of Company:
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Images and target audience
Copy and paste 5 or 6 images/examples of text from the website and add comments
in the boxes alongside.
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Describe
this image/text
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Links between pages
Explain
how you moved between the pages on the website.
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did you have to click? |
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What
happened when you did this? |
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easy was it to understand what you had to do? |
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much did you have to discover for yourself? |
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Now comment on the following:
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What
is the organisation trying to do by making their website as it is? |
Explain
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Is
the website successful in getting the user to react positively in some
way? |
Yes/No
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Explain |
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Is
the amount of information too little or too much (or just right)? |
Yes/No |
Explain |
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Is
the pace of the presentation too slow/fast or just right? |
Yes/No |
Explain |
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Is
there enough user interaction? |
Yes/No |
Explain |
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Is
the screen well designed or could the layout be improved? |
Yes/No |
Explain |
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the user able to use the website easily? |
Yes/No |
Explain |
Part 4: Suggest some improvements that could be made to the website to help it meet its aims.
Part 5: Things from this website that I have found useful to help me design my own presentation: