Week 1: Likes and Dislikes - Webpages

A Page I Like

Page: League of Legends page
Genre: Gaming
Category: art

• Beautiful rich images
• On mouseover, parts of the page highlight and extra details are shown, revealing something visually interesting. For example, the branches down the sides of the page. These touches do not convey any content.
• Images of champions are monochrome but on mouseover become richly coloured. This indicates to click, on which an information screen opens up. The wall of text wasn't so enticing. It was two paragraphs of text with no title or indication of what it was about without reading it. It's white on a dark blue background. I find it very hard to read white on a dark background and find I am reluctant to try.
• There is a video modal. The video player has the controls visible, which I find very important. I very quickly stop watching videos when there is no indication as to how they are. Around the video player is ice. It is a small but it adds interest to the page.
• The social sharing and branding icons at the bottom of the page seem completely out of place.

A Page I Don't Like

Page: Audible
Genre: Sales
Category: inaccessible, printed page

My main dislike for this page is from a functional point of view. The site sells audio books. The page consists of a large image which contains information about the site followed by a paragraph of text. The information in the image is not relayed in any other form on the page. Because it is an image, when enlarging it, the text becomes fuzzy. This site is not accessible to those who have visual impairments either requiring large text, or the use of a screen reader.

This page does not take advantage of the media. It looks to me just like a printed page put online.