Glasstire

Glasstire is a website devoted to Texas visual art. Visitors can click around and get a good feel for what is going on in Texas art today. There are many links to museum websites, art news in Texas and beyond, calendars of events, and picture and video galleries. Artists can create a username and login to submit artwork for inclusion on the site. Visitors can submit events to be posted on the calendar.

Intended Audience

Glasstire is informing the art-minded masses in Texas. I doubt many people stumble over this site. Visitors probably know about it through word of mouth or perhaps the articles get reposted on other sites. I checked a few link popularity sites and Glasstire is "not very popular" when it comes to popularity-by-linking measurements.

Usefulness of Content

If art is one of your interests, the site content would be very useful. For people who have a lifestyle of keeping up on art scenes and movements, they could go to this site and with a little reading, be updated on the major happenings in Texas.

Consistency of Design

Glasstire kind of reminds me of a myspace page in that there is a lot of content going on for every page and topic but everything is easily readable in that titles are all the same font and color, and the same is true for links, dates, locations. For every event, article, feature, you can easily identify the title of the piece and any vital information that has been included. So that is pretty helpful on a page where there are a lot of colors.

Ease of navigation

I wouldn't say the site is easy to navigate. I spent quite a while looking for some videos that my friend posted. General navigation is simplified due to the omnipresent menu of pages in the upper left hand corner. All the text of the sidebars is kind of small, though, so it is pretty easy to ignore.

Overall, not my favorite site but it serves it's purpose well and does it in an aesthetically pleasing way.