Working Examples

Ive been thinking back to the different examples that Ian has shown us regarding examples of good and bad websites. I keep remembering his comments regarding the Sun Newspaper website http://www.thesun.co.uk/section/0,,2,00.html and how it is very busy and quite unclear to navigate around. I decided to visit the website for myself and try and view it critically - not really looking at the content but instead focussing on the interactivity and accessability. I found the website quite busy looking with links to many other pages quite overwhelming. Even when i clicked on a story, there was still too much on the page so your attention was drawn away from the actual story i had chosen to read. This was probably down to the amount of red on the pages, i understand that red is a trademark colour of The Sun, but i think if it was used less it would be more effective. This kind of related to the opening of the film Schindler's List and the girl in the red coat; the film is renouned for the image of the girl in the red coat and its because of the subtle use of colour that it works so successfully. I know that this example is a bit extreme but i think if the Sun only used red for the more important pages then it would be easier for the user to tollerate. I think that looking at this website has helped me to start and visualise how i want my website to look.