Good and suck websites

HIEU PHAM
GDES  70
PROFESSOR: MR. RASCOV
10TH MARCH 2012

YAHOO!  –  A GOOD WEBSITE
http://www.yahoo.com/
After watching a lot of websites, I think that in general, Yahoo! Website is the best website I have seen so far.
In my opinion, Yahoo website is valued as a good website thanks to following elements:
-    Contrast
Most of pages of Yahoo have good contrast in colors or states. For example, the pictures are always prominent on a background in white. In the title, the purple and yellow are contrast each other and Yahoo logo in animation breaks flat title. The white of background and the dark blue of title also make a strong contrast.
-    Unity
It’s a good unity with design and balance harmony. The home page is divided into three columns with a small column for icons which are the links to favorite columns such as autos, dating, movies, and etc, and they are put in the left side, which the viewer often looks at first. Those icons with the same sizes are numerous, and they are arranged uniformly to make the comfortable feeling about something clean for the viewer.
The images are arranged in a spread for the balance of viewers’ vision, and they are selected for color harmony and nice color scheme.
The alignment of objects on the page is also excellent
The images at near bottom of the page make closer layout for whole page.
Light gradients for each item make clear separations for the items.
-    Feedback
It’s simple but effective with underlines for texts and some rollovers for images. This thing prevents the viewer from confusion or a frightful jumble.
-    Typography
It has unity with only one legible and readable font and bold font for titles.
-    Metaphor
The Yahoo logo and the icons as buttons for the links are good examples for good metaphor of web page.
-    Navigation
The Yahoo website really has excellent navigation. In the first looking at, the viewer is attracted by the images and subjects which are breaking news or favorite columns. They are spread out in all of three columns and in right viewers’ eyesight. This thing excites their curiosity and makes them take a look the content of this page; and then it leads them going down the items at the bottom or to related pages naturally.
-    Consistency
This website has its logo in the same location for each page, and most of pages have titles main tabs in the same place.

GORDON WAYNE WATTS OFFICIAL RESEARCH PAGE – A SUCK WEBSITE
http://www.gordonwaynewatts.com/
This website is poor in most of aspects such as contrast, unity, typography, metaphor and navigation.
-    Contrast
It’s poor with local highlights; and even some highlights are very light and unclear.
-    Unity
It’s really bad in layout, balance, color scheme, and no design harmony.
-    Feedback
Its feedbacks are too strong in light green, so viewers still do not see the titles of items which they put their mouse on.
-    Typography
It’s too hard to read with very small font sizes and a lot of different fonts in multiple colors
-    Metaphor
No metaphor
-    Navigation
No navigation. The viewer doesn’t almost know where to begin to read and even finally, cannot understand what this website is talking about.
-    Consistency
No logo for the its related webpages.