Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Group 5 Question 1 - Matt Perry

Since this is not a gaming website as one might think it doesn’t advertise a lot of gaming items. It does however have an advertisement for a computer which this game can be played on. I think that this is clearly more a news related website. On the side it clearly has links to other articles posted on their site. After the first paragraph of this article it shows a related articles category which is designed to help people further pursue an interesting topic. I don’t know why they would have it towards the start since people would most likely read the whole article and then decide if they wanted to hear more about the issue. At the bottom it has its links to twitter and other social media sites imply that they reach broader audience via these methods. At the very bottom they have links navigating all over their website for ease of access to other parts, this is helpful because when you are done you can easily hop around to other sections and read what’s happening there.

They have a myriad of advertisements mostly because the website doesn’t specialize in one particular topic. They also have links to more technology classified articles such as video game reviews and articles about new games. The toolbar at the top has numerous general sections which then drop down into more specific sections. This shows that they want to be organized but not have so many links that the viewer’s feels overwhelmed and the website looks cluttered. They include a “Top News” sections with all the general sections top news story as deemed by the editor.

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