Yahoo

 

This is a page everybody is probably farmilliar with, the Yahoo homepage. I do like the left side navigation bar with the icons, I like how they used one word for each and used a nice spacing for that. I like the bar above the aricles that lets you navigate through different subjects. I like the photos with the transparent text box to show featured articles. The website has a layout that works best for the large amount of content they put into their home page. Overall there is a lot to look at, but it does look good and it is nicely laid out.

Design Milk

This is a website called Design Milk. It contains articles and galleries of all sorts of types of design. It has a very simple layout and I like it a lot. I like the black and white look of it because it makes everything very easy to read, very simple, and it draws a lot more attention to the content. I like the navigation bar where it has the double slashes in between each link, that looks really nice. I also like how they made the facebook and other icons black to match their theme. Overall I like how the pictures are huge and they are really made to be the focus especially by the simple design of the site.

Brit+Co

This is a website called Brit+Co. It's a blog about do it yourself projects. I really like the design of everything on this site. I love how the colors from the logo are repeated throughout the design and I like the use of the simple icons on the left side of the page used for navigation. upon hovering over the links they pop out with text to show what each page is. I like that aspect a lot. I like how this page is laid out in that everything is very simple, easy to navigate and pleasent to look at. I like the interesting use of colors as well.

iVillage

This is a website called iVillage, it has tips for all sorts of things from beauty and health to home and food related articles. I think the design of the website is really choppy. I don't like the blank space between the content and the navigation, and if they moved the content up it would look a lot better. I also don't like all the blank space in the body area. I think if they made everything bigger and tightened it up it would look a lot better. Otherwise, I like the direction they were going with the design though.

Cajun Fitness

This is a website for Cajun Fitness, which is a chain of gyms in Louisiana. First off, the choice of red for the background color of this website was a poor one. Its very bright and very distracting from the actual information that the site is about. I wish they had made the main box where the information is a lot bigger, or at least extended it down to fit through the page. Otherwise the design is simple, but still manages to communicate the idea that it is a gym that they are advertising. The header looks good, but I think if they had put the navigation under the header and maybe extended the links with the locations to provide more information about the locations or what the gym offers that is special that would have helped the website overall.

Sock Dreams

This is a website called Sock Dreams. They sell different sorts of socks online. First off, I like the design, I think it looks really cool and I get the whole magical dreams sort of thing they were going for, but at the same time I just don't think it communicates the product their trying to sell. Nobody is going to look at this site and think "socks" right away. But otherwise I like the direction they were going for. Putting the header on the right side of the page was an interesting decision and I think they pulled it off well, the navigation is unique and it works. I do like what they did with the paper and the lace coming out of the side of the wrapper like that, it looks nice. And I also like the "latest news" being in the form of a book, that was a pretty cool idea on their part. Overall this website is nicely designed.

ProFlowers

This is a website for a company called ProFlowers. They basically an online flower delivery company, which is pretty unique. Their website is very professional, clean, and the design makes sense and looks good. I like the way the site is setup in that its the header, navigation, a coupon, and then the giant graphic with the featured product. That is a really nice way of leading the viewers eyes through the information that they want you to see first, and it is all very organized and the spacing looks good. One thing I would change though, is that I would make the type for the navigation bar bigger, because I feel that it's slightly hard to read on a smaller screen especially. otherwise overall this website is well made.

Lings Cars

This website is about Lings Cars, it is basically a website for leasing cars. First of all, this website is horrible. There is way too much going on and its very distracting. It took several minutes for me to figure out what the website was all about and on top of that all the graphics and the colors make the whole thing just look tacky. Not to mention that the graphics don't even make sense for the service are trying to communicate. Another problem with this website is that the colors flash and graphics are blinking and there's so much going on that the load time for this page was longer then most other pages. Which is not good. Not to mention that nobody wants to buy something as expensive as a car from a website that is the opposite of professional. Overall the header and navigation look fine, if they took out all the extra junk and kept things simple and clean it would be a much more effective website. 

Old Navy Website

This is the old navy website, they sell men's, women's and children's clothing, shoes and accessories.
I really like the look of this website mainly because it is very simplistic and looks very easy to navigate and find what your looking for in just a few seconds. I like that they used a light gray for most of the site then they used a touch of blue to draw attention to important things. The navigation bar at the top looks really good too because its spaced out nicely and there aren't too many links listed.