After exploring many website I decided to review/evaluate the bbc.co.uk main website as I found it to be exceptionally good in terms of navigation and clear structured information that was presented to me.

 

The reasons I chose this website as my “Good website” example are listed below;

Navigation:

The navigation used throughout the website is clear and as a visitor I was never confused where I was on the website or how to return to the main areas of interest, the navigation is visible and accessible both at the top and bottom of the website although they are different in layout as the top navigation is more condensed.

Furthermore I found the use of expandable menus to feel very natural and I like that the main sections of the website are style differently which makes it immediately clear where you are.

Styling:

The styling of the website differs for each section as mentioned above and I found it to be very pleasing on the eye overall. There is not too much going on in therms of graphics and the design itself is very clean.

I love the rotating banner style news and highlights on the homepage which show the latest for each section as well.

 

In conclusion I think BBC has done a great job developing and designing their website and I am sure many thousands of pounds were spent creating this, I have tried using certain elements in my designs as well although nowhere near as sophisticated.

After searching the web to find several good and bad examples of website design, I finally settled on one specific website as my “bad website” example.

The website in question is the James Bond Museum in Sweden, their website URL is: www.007museum.com and a preview image can be seen below in case the website is unavailable.

I chose this website over all other bad examples for a large number of reasons and I have listed them below.

They do not have any clear navigational menu on their website which would finding specific content (like opening times) rather difficult for any customer/visitor.

There is virtually no styling present and visually this makes for a very sparse website. Another issue with the lack of styling is that the content isn’t broken up into clear sections which, to the reader, makes the entire website appear as a great wall of text.

Putting myself in the shoes of a visitor browsing the website to find information about the museum I find myself struggling to differentiate the content on the website and find basic information like the address, images of the actual museum and museum information.
There appears to be no easy way of returning to the main homepage after clicking a link and several elements are styled in such a manner that it makes reading unpleasant.

In conclusion; this website could do with a major overhaul which is part of the reason I chose it for my redesign.

In this task we were asked to create a website layout/mock-up for a website for “Skateboard Sussex” to get familiarized with the principles of Interface design and the ability to create layouts using Photoshop.

After browsing to select suitable images I started and created a new project within Photoshop given the correct dimensions of 1600×1000 pixels.

A lot of experimentation and different ideas brought me to the final Workshop design as seen below which incorporates a lot of elements I would expect to see on a grunge type Skateboarding website.
I chose a wallpaper to span the entire width of the website which seemed to work best given my choice of design, I added a navigator and footer to the website and a main container to hold the content such as a hero image and text

The logo was created using a grunge type font that was rotated and a cutout of a skateboarder that was vectored and coloured in.