Farhana Web Based - MPT1393

Surf the web and identify a personal, organization and commercial website (at least 2 websites from different category) that impress you in positive manner. Capture the homepage of each website, identifying the URL. Discussed what impressed you about the websites by responding to the following:

1. What the 2 websites have in common
2. What are some rules of good design that you found from the websites and how you can use it in the project
3. Identify the information of value you found explaining how it was presented- for example, as photos, video, text or sound.
4. Rate the ease of finding the information
5. Explain what would encourage you to make a return to each website.

2. Brooklyn Botanical Garden Organization (bbg.org)

1. These two websites are easy to read where the navigational links are all clear and easy to read. Besides they applied the usage of active white space that structures and separates the content. It also provides an easy access in searching for related information.
2. Some of the rules that I found from these websites are:
1. Make it simple by not using too much of color combination and make it less use of hot color such as red, orange, etc.
2. Provide a clear navigational links for each pages so that users can easily navigate from one page to another.
3. Design with active white space as it structures and separates the content of the webpage.
4. Provides with an easy access for information by implementing ‘Search’ button.
5. The text must standardize for all pages, along with the theme. The text must neither too small nor too big.
3. As for yahoo homepage, it provides the information either in text, images and videos as well. This enhance and triggered attention for audience to read or watch the information that shown. As for BBG homepage there is no much images and photos that can be value added for the site.
4. For rate of findings, I give both sites 10 out of 10 as it provides an easy access for visitor to search for information.
5. What would make me comeback to the websites is their design that is simple yet easy to read and navigate from 1 page to another. The information needed is easy to obtain and I got the information that I want without compromise.

The term is also used to refer to the front page, webserver directory index, or main web page of a website of a group, company, organization, or individual. In some countries, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea, and formerly in the US, the term "homepage" commonly refers to a complete website (of a company or other organization) rather than to a single web page. By the late 1990s this usage had died out in the US, replaced by the more comprehensive term "web site".

In the same category of homepage are now websites that attempt to be a start page (more accurately a personal web portal). A start page is a website or page meant to organize links or information for the user when a web browser starts. Start pages generally consist of information like news, weather, games, and other web widgets and web gadgets. Start pages also aggregate information like RSS feeds or collect and manage web page links. Examples of Start pages include iGoogle, Netvibes, Sthrt, Pageflakes, and icon based home page poggogum.

Most homepages for personal or low-recognized websites start with a welcome and a little information about their site. However, larger websites designed for browsing; such as stores, free-entertainment collections, and informational websites; feature special things on the frontpage such as "Featured", "Most Liked", "Spotlight", "Great Deals" and so on.

A website (also spelled web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network.

A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.

Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content. The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.

All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site.

Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription sites include many business sites, parts of many news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based e-mail, services, social networking websites, and sites providing real-time stock market data.