Friday, June 20, 2008

Why it is a GREAT website

I think the Audition Dance Battle website is great!
The link is:
http://www.auditionsea.com/

Home Page
The website is great in all areas. It is full of information, nicely designed, attractive to it's target audience. When I open this website, I am attracted by its colorful layout. Meanwhile I can get plenty of information in the website. The information is divided into different areas, you can look for them by clicking the button on top of the web page.
Scroll down the page, you can see there are some up coming events and news, notices, highlights of the game.

At the bottom of the home page, game features, audition videos and purchasing of goodies are available for those who like to have a preview of the game.

The home page is an effective layout for those people who wants to know this game, they can easily get a lot of useful information to find out more about the game which result in interesting with the game. And also for the game players, they can check the news, events and notices conveniently. Purchased what they like from the 'goodies'. A great website have to have a wonderful home page, then people will interested in it and want to explore more from the other web pages of the website.


Internal Links

There are lots of internal links in the website. They are all well navigated. I can quickly get more details of the game.

----Game Modes
There are up to 20 game modes in this dancing battle game. All the game modes are showed in images and a short brief for each mode is given beside the images.
When I look at this web page, I am totally attracted by these images. Meanwhile, from the short brief that I can easily get to know how this game mode is played. Though there are lots of images in the web page, it is arranged in order and for those new game modes comes first in the web page. This clearly shows the arrangement of the web page and helps the reader to know which one is more important in this web page.

----Notices
We can get more game notices from this web page. Every notice has a short and brief title for it. And a bullet is in front of each notice which clearly shows the individual notice. The 'Date' column tells you which one is the lasted notice. The bar beside the main content is also useful to us, we can easily get into News, Events and so on other web pages of information.

When I click on the notice which you want to read, the details of the notice will come out. As I read the notice, a clear message is shown to me. There are almost the short sentences in the notice. Every sentence include one idea, it is convenient for me to read and can get the main point quickly.


Another good point is that the details of one notice is in a individual web page, and there is no colorful images besides the notice. This can let the readers focus on reading the message in the notice. The font and the size of the words are suitable for the readers.


Original Source

This is the part html codes used in the website. I can see from the source that it uses the Cascading Style Sheets for the web page. The html codes are very simple and clear to see. This is good for redesigning the web page and maintaining of the site become much easier.


Conclusion
A great website applies a lot of design principles. From auditionsea dance battle website, I can easily identify the main page and the sub-page. It also apply the 4 basic design principles--contrast, repetition,alignment and proximity. With applying the principles, the web page looks more clean, neat and professional. The website also meet its target audience as all the information in the website is useful for those who interested in this game.

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