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Navigation:
Navigation around this site is pretty sloppy, probably because there is nearly nothing on the home page. Instead there are a ton of links crammed to the left side of it with a scroll bar to see all of them; needless to say, there are more links than what are necessary. For example, there is a link that lists all of King's books (all of which are linked), a link to sites about his books, a link that provides titles of all of his movies, and another link that provides links to other Stephen King sites. I truely feel that I did not need to say the word "link" that many times in one sentence. Why were there two seperate links for his books, and why were there no links to any sites about his movies? Furthermore, couldn't most, if not all of those links have been under one link down that left hand column? Finally, we agreed that there should have been some sort of link on the home page; whether it gives information about the creator of the page, or just links to some kind of secondary page. Therefore, there was tons of information on this site, but the way that it was put together just seemed that quality took a back seat to what was easiest to do.
Design:
The design for this site didn't turn out as bad as I first thought that it would. It was pretty consistant on its background color and scheme throughout the site, and the list on the left hand side was done vertically instead of horizontally, and wasn;t mixed at all between the two. There was one glaring problem wrong with the site, however. According to Spiderpro, pages should not be crammed to one sode of a page. As I mentioned on navigation, everything was stuffed over to the left side of the page, making the main part of the page look empty and pathetic.
Visual Presentation:
As far as visual presentation, there really wasn't much.. All images were in the left hand column--one for each link. This just seemed to make the list that much longer. As for the background, it is solid black with a pattern of red drops which I assume are suppossed to be blood. Not much else to say about this. Apparently images just weren't important to whoever made this site.There is really nothing that can be said about the visuals of this site except that maybe every link has a picture to go along with it. There was nothing on the site that especially caught my or entertained me while visiting.
Content:
The content for this site could have been much worse. It wasn't anything outstanding, but it definitely could have been much worse. The grammar and spelling were all good and the site is loaded with information about Stephen King, which is good, and assuming that the site's audience is King nuts, then it is geared toward them. However, Spiderpro says to always use the first page and put some information on it, which this site didn't really do. also, the creator of the site gives his e-mail sit for people to give feedback, but he seems to go out of his way to get not to, saying that he rarely updates the site, so if you email him, he might not respond.
Overall:
Overall, this site wasn't all that great. The maker of the site seemed to take the easy way to do the site instead of doing it the right way. He took a ton of links and just crammed them to the left side of that pageand called it a website. I doubt that it was bad because the creator didn't know what he was doing, it was bad because he was lazy while doing it.Thank goodness for the design and content areas, otherwise this could have been just a 1 Johnny site.