Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Austin 360

http://www.austin360.com/

Intended Audience:
  • People living in, visiting, or thinking of visiting Austin, Texas

Usefulness of Content:

  • Extremely useful-events, movies, restaurants, news, radio, classifieds-Basically anything you want to know about Austin
  • Problem is there is too much content-unless you are looking for something specific you could easily get lost in the site
  • Also contains TV listings, blogs about favorite shows, latest celebrity gossip-Not sure I like this as these can basically be found anywhere-There is already too much information-no need to add more

Consistency of Design:

  • Fairly consistent: Throughout most of the site there is a gray background with the common header and tab system across the top of the page
  • Negative Aspect: When loading, the page is dark grey with black lettering until fully loaded-Doesn't allow the page to be read until it is fully loaded
  • Negative Aspect: Many of the advertisements pop out over the website's content forcing you to deal with it

Ease of Navigation:

  • Fairly easy throughout-when there are pages with a lot of information they present you with drop-down menus so you don't have to scroll forever-However this appeals only to people who exactly what they are looking for-If someone is new to Austin (like me) and simply wants to see what is there it is much harder to get a general picture

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