Houston-Downtown Website Analysis

The Houston Area Survey shows how the city of Houston has progressed over the span of thirty-five years into an immensely diverse city that the rest of America will come to look like in the future. The city has grown from being predominately Anglo to having a nice population balance between Anglos, Latinos, African Americans, and Asians. In terms of Latinos in Houston, the study places emphasis on the differences between the first generation who are foreign-born, second generation who were born in the United States with immigrant parents, and third-generation Latinos who were born in America with American parents. The study explores the differences between the generations on their socioeconomic status including education levels and

Sometimes websites can be almost intimidating with a small, serif font. It makes it look like a report. My final product is going to nice, simple looking. It will have a lot of negative (white space) because it gives the impression of space, and if theres a lot of information in one section, theres room to breathe. Right off the bat, their first impressions need to convey that, therefore my opening page must have that clean and open look. It may sound silly but its small details like this that will make a

On a website the opening page is vital to not only the persons experience on the site, but also the over all impression on the subject. There are several ways that a persons perception can be manipulated to feel a certain way, on a website; the layout, accessibility of information, and images. When accessing the El Paso Zoo website the first thing that catches the attention of the audience is the back ground. Which is the El Paso skyline with the franklin mountains accompanied by some exotic animals. This creates a personal connection with the views by combining something that is familiar and has emotional connection with something new that brings a new excitement to this emotional

Suggestions: DePaul University’s account doesn’t provide many photos of the campus, and there are not many tweets about the university’s most popular sport basketball. The university should provide more diverse post than their twitter account and the university should provide posts of students in the classroom.

Hous·to·ni·an, a native resident of Houston, Texas. This term is popular in more states than Texas. There’s a saying that “Everything is bigger and better in Texas. Houston is the fourth largest city in America behind Nevada and ahead of New Mexico. Now that is big. People that are born in Texas are natives, and therefore Houstonian. There are several races that call Houston home like Hispanics, Asians, Blacks and Europeans. There is also a refugee population in Houston from places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. However, any person that lives in the culture and experiences the culture to the extent that they consider themselves native can also be called a Houstonian. Houstonian is not a term. Houstonian is a way of life, a culture, and an identity.

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One thing I did not like about the Student Health 101 website was the titles of the articles and the overall layout of the website. I felt the website did not look like a school related website, but a website that looks like it is going to be filled with pop-up ads. I also felt the titles of the articles were very click-bait like one of the articles was titled “5 things you didn’t know about vaping” and looked like something you would see at the bottom of webpages as advertisements. I did not feel the website had a very professional feel to it. However, when I actually clicked on some of the articles I found the content to be very easy to read and useful.

Personally, I believe that something we can improve on is campus safety such as light in the parking lots and more surveillance during the night hours. We have a beautiful campus and well-equipped study facilities, which make it comfortable to come to the school for study sessions, but at what cost? Making the campus a welcoming and safe place can enhance the learning environment for all the students and open the opportunity for more team based learning outside of PBL and

Law enforcements acts critically to helping victims cope, they will first assist the victim with the immediate damage and later will help with the recovery from the crime. Not all victims will report a crime through calling law enforcement, some might prefer following guidelines online or step by step directions on what to do if they were a victim of a crime. Websites possibly could provide information to the victim about local agencies that could help them, numbers they could call and different resources. There are many police departments all across the country and each one is very different in assisting victims needs. ADD MORE ABOUT THE WEBSITES I PICKED

Looking on YELLS website a few cons that’s sticks out is on the home page its plain and doesn’t sticks out to fully catch the person who enters the site. The background is just a solid gray color with

The user need only click on the logo to return to the home page each of the headings (new arrivals, dresses, tops & outerwear, etc.) is filled with subheadings which makes finding your desired item, or items, easy. The headings, full of subheadings, have overlapping parts which can be confusing. For example, under the shoes heading in flats there are sneakers which should not be in the same category. If anything they should be with the boots. Except for a few of these types of problems the navigation is pretty straight forward. For nearly all of its fonts ModCloth chose a sans-serif font which is easier to read on the internet. Sans-serif fonts do not have the little flourishes, or finishing strokes, which make the brain work harder to decipher, especially on the computer. This allows the user to stay on their website for longer periods of time and increases the chances that they will buy something. Which means that it serves its purpose because after all ModCloth is a company that’s main goal is to make money. The words sometimes overlap which could sometimes be a problem but it only happens every once in a while so it does not affect the legibility of the site

The homepage has a large scrolling gallery with stock pictures, and what seems like a clickable link to additional information. However, the pictures and text are just that - scrolling picture with text on them. They should link the user to the web page relevant to the text on the graphic Once the user leaves the homepage there are no longer any graphics. This brings down the appeal of the website significantly.

Visitors can use the footer to connect to the website for finding out information. The Oldest Sweet Shop has developed a clear and footer with understandable texts. The footer in the website can be useful for the user and is designed to incorporate with the site using hyperlinks. A screen shot has been taken, see Appendix 6. Websites’ visitors are more likely to use websites with images rather than the ones without. Images ensure users to interact with the website and can be quite appealing. The Oldest Sweet Shop uses adequate amount of images for the website. The website has a clear parallax scrolling in the main page as well as a picture of each product they sell in which helps the business to attract visitors to the website. See Appendix 7 for an example of Oldest Sweet Shop images. Typefaces and fonts are important to develop and design for a website. (Prather, n.d.) explained that “In today’s digital landscape—more than ever—people are aware of typography, design and how the world looks around them”. The Oldest Sweet Shop website uses fonts with a white background colour which might causes difficulty for the user to read. A test for colour accessibility has been undertaken, see Appendix

First, let’s take a look at some of the most common mistakes that businesses make when they are designing their landing page. One issue that is most common is that the landing page is cluttered and difficult to read. Cluttered pages will get you no customers. Instead, it will get your visitor running for the hills in confusion.

I'm not saying make-up is evil, but we all know what's in somewhat good taste, and what isn't. But, hey!, I could be wrong: There could actually be a great person hiding under that crusty exterior; most of the time there is. A balance needs to be achieved or at least strived for when designing a web page or any page for that matter. I'm not trying to rag on Raygun or anything, because I like A LOT of the stuff that they do, but one must not get carried away with it and ignore what one is supposed to be doing in the first place. For this reason I have chosen to pick on the Alternative X web site (http://www.altx.com/), for this paper. Well, not really pick on them, but you know what I mean. So in our quest to discover the ideal web page we must look at the following things: 1) Does it make sense? Is its layout so erratic in such a way as to render the viewer blind because of the designers lack of vision and utter stupidity? 2) Organization. How and why were things placed in the places they were placed, needs to be known, or at least made seemingly apparant. 3) Since this is a web site we are critiquing, and like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book one can skip to another section with almost no fear of being inquisitioned, does its "links" lead to somewhere meaningful?