Journal 11

After some searching, I found several websites that represent attractive format and presentation as well as others that seem to be made to induce vomiting. One thing all the ugly websites have in common is that they seem to have no cohesive theme, style, coloring, formatting, or anything that makes it easier for the viewer to take in the important information. There are so many important things that allow information to be conveyed more easily on websites. If there are texts that are separate, but leading to one another, it has to be a soft, yet noticeable transition. You wouldn’t want to have one text be in one color, no matter how well it matches with colors around it, followed by a text colored so bizarrely different that the reader has to adjust his or her eyes to read it. Colors, text, format, order, and flow from one section to another are vitally important to an attractive website. I found one that typified such a eye-appeasing website, which was http://movies.fsu.edu/. It is Florida State University’s website dedicated to activities going on in the Student Life Center/Cinema here on campus. Some great things about it that make it an appealing website is the color scheming. It has a grayish-black background with everything centered in a column at the center of the page. At the very top, it has an animated drawing of things that connote artistry, movies, and entertainment. All the colors work well as the main scheming is either red, black, or white. It is also very clear where to go if you know what you are searching for. Bigger groupings in larger, bolder text with subtexts in much smaller displays.