Looking at this from a internet ministry perspective.
Criteria for evaluating websites…
- Don’t care about data architecture
- Content
- Design
- Usability
- SEO
- Something else you want looked at…
Victim #1 Center for Student Missions
- Conversion goal isn’t all that clear.
- Probably too much navigation
- Replace all that navigation with a paragraph explaining your conversion
- Nice use of text link navigation at the bottom
- Need a cue for the rollover map
Victim #2 Intervarsity Corporate site
- Small text is nuts
- Calls it "one of the worst sites I’ve ever seen"
- Limit the choices
- Make the "find a chapter" thing bigger
- Think about building a site map into the navigation
Victim #3 Sports Spectrum
- UNC colors is a nice touch, popular team colors
- Nice design
- Some of the boxes are tough on the eye, not offset enough
- Great use of red for navigation
Victim #4 Act of Grace Radio
- Move logo and text under it to the footer
- Swoosh design is 1995 look
- Microphone icons are tough, maybe a little sloppy
- Top navigation is simple, easy
- Remove the white "welcome to actofgraceradio.net."
- It does look, overall, very good.
- Needs Podcast, RSS feeds, player on home page, etc
Victim #5 Destino Community
- Looks like a porn site
- Red/black is "like 1984"
- Serif fonts are bad
- All the font sizes should match
- Nice use of YouTube… just make sure you link back to your site from YouTube
- Stick with colors in fonts… adding yellow/orange is a weird addition in about page
Victim #6 Prophecy Today
- Looks like a news site
- Ditch the scrolling text
- Text is packed a little too tightly
- Create a little more white space
- No "who is Jimmy" link even though he’s mentioned a lot
This was actually a lot of fun. The folks who volunteered their sites were quite brave.
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