October 04, 2004
Design, best and worst
Of our group's four best websites the one that stood out was Remebering Jim Crow This site had a simple and easy to follow layout, a consitancey of design to all of its pages, an attractive and subdued color scheme,... More
Posted by Mac at 08:38 PM
Class Group Design
Good Design Principles- BBC.com History Clearly defined roll-over links not cluttered easy to read Good balance of image vs text Good navigation Bad Web site- Linecamp.com Bad color in images internal links that go nowhere scrolling to the bottom with... More
Posted by Debbie S-J at 08:35 PM
design
Good site: http://diglib1.amnh.org/ Strong design concepts include: good use of repetition throughout the site; good alignment; easy navigability; good color contrat that create a mood that helps users organize and understand content. Bad sites: http://home.comcast.net/~dboals1/boals.html and http://www.historycentral.com/ The moving text... More
Posted by Olivia at 08:31 PM
Design
Good Design: American Museum Congo Expedition, 1090-1915 is both beautifully and usefully designed and keeps its content in mind at all times. It follows William’s and Tollett’s four principles of web design to near perfection. The site has an entry... More
Posted by Kristin at 05:47 PM
Design
I chose the Pensacola Historical Society's website as an example of bad design. Their site breaks almost all guidelines regarding alignment, proximity and repetition. Alignment is nearly non-existent. The site is made up of a patchwork of tables with... More
Posted by Rob at 02:56 PM
Design
An example of Good Design is the Chicago Historical Society's "Studs Terkel: Conversations with America" website. The design enables the browser to quickly determine the site's content. This is made easier by a simple white background that enhances contrast. The... More
Posted by Matt Mc at 01:41 PM
Design: The Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly!
I have selected the Real History Archives as my example of a poorly designed website. See the site itself at http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/index2.htm and my full critique of it at http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmellen/baddesign.html. The layout and even the URLdoes not make too much sense... More
Posted by Roger at 01:12 PM
Good and Bad Design
“Good” web design: http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/index.html This site is easy to navigate, pleasing to the eye and meets Williams and Tollett’s four basic design principles (alignment, proximity, repetition and contrast). The top and right side remains constant throughout the site except for... More
Posted by Olivia at 07:26 AM
Web Design
Good Web Site Design: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bad Web Site Design: Society for Military History Headquarters The USHMM web site is a nice example of a good web site with good design. While it does have a lot... More
Posted by Chris at 04:55 AM
October 03, 2004
Design
Web Site Design While some nonprofit museum and historical society sites are more interesting than others in content, and some employ flashier multimedia devices i.e. Mount Vernon, many seem to follow a similar web design format (see Monticello.) This includes... More
Posted by Debbie S-J at 11:41 PM
Good and bad web design
In keeping with the theme of my home page, Early Nineteenth-Century Political Culture, I have chosen one site for political history and one archival site with documents pertinent to nineteenth-century constitutional history. For my example of good design I have... More
Posted by ben at 11:15 PM
Good vs. Bad
People often are able to distinguish between a bad website and a good website, even though they may not be able to express why. I was one of these people until reading this week’s assignment. I pretty much knew what... More
Posted by sarah at 01:50 PM
Simple is better
World at War Great Content–Poor Design Content. Wilfried Braakhuis manages one of the most comprehensive sites on the web. Few sites can compete with it as a primer for World War II. The site is well-organized and contains a good... More
Posted by Stephen B. Sledge at 11:47 AM
October 02, 2004
Design
An example of bad web site design can be found at the Westchester Township Historical Museum in Chesterton, Indiana . No, I didn’t have to go to such an obscure place (no slight intended, Chesterton) to find an example of... More
Posted by Jeff at 12:36 PM
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The Wisconsin Historical Society website is rich in content. The Wisconsin Historical Society is ‘a state agency and a private membership organization’. The website includes information about a variety of historical or semi-historical topics of interest to academic and public... More
Posted by MaryL at 11:47 AM
October 01, 2004
Design and Structure
Here is my entry on website design and structure:... More
Posted by Jim at 06:21 PM
September 30, 2004
Design
Well-Designed: Remembering Jim Crow americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering This site was developed by National Public Radio and its main intent is to provide users with access to radio interviews with black people who lived in the segregated Jim Crow South. There are photographs... More
Posted by DickH at 03:32 PM