I this research I have displayed my opinions towards different types of websites. I looked through the different website and described why some weren't very good and why some where. Looking through the good and the bad websites I was then able to think about how my website should look and what things I shouldn't put on it.
Website Design research
examples of badly designed websites.
http://www.jamet.tm.fr/#/bored
This website is a very confusing one to navigate around.
Also I have no idea what the website is even about mainly because it is in French
but even if it wasn't it would still be unclear.
The layout of the page is very
strange. The first thing that appears on the page is the logo and just some
small text. Straight away it is unclear on what you have to do. There is
nowhere to click and nowhere to go. If you wait a few seconds instructions
appear and it tells you to use the arrow keys to navigate around the page. When
you do this though there is a quick animation taking you to some more
information and it goes on to more and more and when you reach the end it looks
like the picture.
It is hard to read and see some of the information and some
is upside down. Also when you've gone through all the information there is
nowhere else to go and no more information to find you only get what’s on the
screen.
This isn't a very good website because most people click on a page and
only look at it for about four seconds before they decide if they want to
continue looking at it. Also animations on websites taking you to more information
aren’t a very good idea as most people don't wish to wait or aren’t patient
enough to watch it. They just want the information straight away.
Access speed:
It doesn't take long to load but it takes a long time to navigate through it. Navigation
through the website isn’t great as you have to go through all the bits of info
to find the bit you want or to see all the information on the page which is
also very unclear.
The page is very plain and doesn't have many colours which doesn’t
make it look very interesting. Also there is only one picture and it really
doesn't look like a website. It looks more like a presentation.
The
readability for this website isn't very good. The background is
sparkling and it might distract the reader also the words are in strange
colours and don't stay the same size or colour throughout the page.
This means that reading the page isn't exactly easy or simple. It is
made more confusing by all the different things going on at once.
The
navigation though the page isn't too bad. The navigational bar at the
side takes you to different parts of the site and it doesn't take long
to load as it doesn't leave the page the content just changes. Although
these bars would usually be more clear and most of the time would be
placed at the top of the page. So another bad point is that the bar is
very small and you may not straight away notice that its there.
The picture navigation is terrible. I
clicked on one of the
photos at the top and it took me to a completely different page. It was
just
some moving pictures with no relevancy's to the website whatsoever. So
that didn't make any sense. When I clicked on a picture on the left side
it took you to a broken link. This could show that they rarely check or
update their website.
good examples of webpages
Here is an example of a much better layout for a website. You can immediately tell its someones online portfolio. It is easy to navigate through as there is a navigation bar at the top of the page although its small you can see it straight away because its layed on a small bar at the top of the page.
The colours maybe simple on the website but this can be a good thing as it wont have any over powering colours on it or words that are hard to read against the background.
The access speed is quick. It doesn't take very long to navigate through the bar and the websites style is kept consistant throughout the site.
The readability on the website is good as most of the font colours are white against black or black against white. Also important information is highlighted by a turquoise coloured box around it. On the homepage it has very simple information and text basically just telling you who he is and what he does.
The target audience for this website would be people interested in hiring a web designer or graphics designer also people who are interested in those subjects and enjoy looking at other peoples work.
He has a useful bar at the top that takes you to other parts of his webpage. Home is the first almost every website should have home on their navigational bar. Blog is next which is a good one to have if its your portfolio website. The portfolio is next which contains all of his projects which are easy to navigate through as there is a sub navigation bar to help you look through that easier. Then about and contact are the last two headings. Contact is important to have on your personal webpage because if someone likes your work they may wish to contact you about work or your skills or for help ect...
Other websites
http://jump.dexigner.com/directory/7873
I
decided to look up an animation portfolio website because animation
will be what I want my website to mainly feature. So I thought I would
do research on one. I have a mixed view on this website. I has some good
points and some that could be improved.
The
access speed is ok it could be improved a bit. It has to load the first
time you click on it but likely it doesn't take too long. But then it
comes up with continue and you have to click it to get to the home page.
To make the access speed a bit quicker it could just load onto the home
page but it's not a very big fault it just takes a few secs to
atchually get to the home page.
The
content of the page is mainly just pictures, videos and links and there
is hardly any text. This could be good or bad depending on the viewer.
Some people like just having pictures and videos to look at. But I would
say that text is needed on most sites. There is practically no text on
their web. They like to show off their work visually. I do believe there
should be a bit more text then there is though.
A
good point is that at the bottom of their page they have got some more
navigation. It has a link to her resume. Which is a good thing to have
on the page of a free lance artist. Also they have a show reel of work
which gives you an idea of the kind of things they do. Also they have an
interactive animation at the top of the page which is a nice feature to
have on the page.
A
bad point is the website is very small on the screen. The good thing is
that its not over crowding but when you click on the animations the
video your watching is very small and there is no way to make it bigger.
This could frustrate people.
The
website is with websafe colouring as it is very simple. The colours
used are mainly black and white. websafe colours means that if you
create a website with lots of colours mixed in you may think that its
looks greate when you create it but when someone else looks at it
certain colours may not stand out as much as they did on you screen.
Different computer screen will show colours differently and to make it
websafe you should use colouring which would look fine on all kinds of
monitors.
The
font isn't too dificult to read and its all in the same font which is a
good thing. It is consistant in its style and doesn't change the whole
website layout when you navigate through it. The navigation is also good
and simple to do. The headings are in a clear and easy to read
navigation bar which makes it easy to navigate through.
Overall I think this website is good an just needs some improvement to make it a bit better.
2D research
This is a manga book I have and is useful for research. This contains images of different manga drawings and anime is based on manga comics. I thought this could be good research as I am doing an anime style animation.
When I was designing my characters I looked at this page for hair style ideas but I ended up going for a style from a animation show instead.
This book has lots of mythical creature descriptions and drawings in it. This would be a really good book to use if any creatures would be in the animation. I was thinking about a dragon for the wave so this page is a good source of research.
This infomation is good in the book to help with chatacteristics. It tell all the features of people and other things.
The style of my characters is sort of based on that of people in digimon. I was trying to look at a style I liked and thought wasn't too complicated to draw. The two characters below are the character from digimon and one of my characters first design. You can see that they aren't the same but there are a few characteristics I looked at when drawing mine. They both have gloves, big spiky hair and big shoes. The body shape on mine is a bit longer. Also the eyes are a different style. But in anime there are two types of the way eyes look. The other characters eyes are more detailed and are closer to the digimon character but the villains eyes are simpler.
The original concept of digimon is believed to have come from Akiyoshi Hongo. It is produced by Toei Animation and Bandai of Japan.
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