Chapter 5: Web Site Case Study

Fish Creek Animal Hospital:

1. What type of site organization is used for the Fish Creek Website? Is it the most appropriate organization for the site? Why or why not?

2. Review the recommended Web page design practices from this chapter. Cite three design practices that have been well implemented. Cite three design practices that could be implemented in a better way. How else would you improve the Web site?

  1.) The Fish Creek site uses hierarchical organization. This is definitely the right choice for this website. It provides a fast and easy way to get around the site by way of the consistent navigation bar. Visitors can conveniently get to the specific page they want to visit.

2.) Well implemented:

-Ease of navigation / Navigation bars

-Contrast

-Repetition

  To be reconsidered:

-Use of color

The colors aren't too bad, but I'm not sure that it quite fits the theme/audience. The all blue background is a little much, especially on a very small site with not a lot of information.

-"Real estate"/ White space

This is a very small site, so it is understandable. However, I think that maybe a better design/arrangement could be applied.

 -Proximity

This goes along with what I said above.

Also, I think that frames would be a good addition to a small site like this.