Today I'm looking at two different site. First is the Minden Courier web site.
The Courier is a small weekly newspaper based in Minden, NE.
This is an example of a webpage that I do not find appealing.
Their site is not visually pleasing, and their is a lot of wasted space.
All of the different parts to their site are in a small portion on the top left of the red column, and their are numerous links that are in the same column in the same font, but are separate links from the site.
The middle column is where headlines are, and there is only one. With only one headline the page still goes on for more than two full screens. The middle column is blank, and the right column is ads all the way down the page.
The sites major purpose should be to tell news, but the layout would make it seem as though the purpose is to connect links and numerous ads.
This page could use some serious improvements in the form of more distinct tabs for navigating the site, and more emphasis placed on headlines, and stories.
The other site for today is the adobe homepage.
This site is done brilliantly!
Clearly their goal is to increase interest in their products.
So many things on the page are creative and eye-catching. The big banner near the top shows many of their products, and by moving the mouse over them you can see a description of the product. The products and solutions tabs at the bottom of the screen open up as you move over them. Then there are tabs and a search box along the top to help navigate the site.
Of the two it is safe to say that the adobe site is well worth the money that went into it. For the Minden Courier site it may or may not be worth the money. It is a much smaller business, and less money would have gone into it's development, but I am not pleased with the site, and probably would not have spent much on it.
To see the difference you can look at the source codes for the two sites, and realize that many more lines of code went into developing the adobe site.
Adobe: 756 lines of code
Minden Courier: 431 lines of code
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