Ineffective Website

The first website I examined was http://www.kingsnake.com/boapage/caresheets/boaconstrictorcare.html in staying with my own website topic of snake care. This website is extremely boring and consists mainly of text on a white background. This is a care sheet with only one link and not a single picture. While it may be effective for supplying information via text it is is not very engaging at all, and contains only one link.

The next website I found ineffective through personal experience is travelocity.com. This is for the most part a well built site, and has been very successful. My issues have been ease of use of their search functions as compared to other similar sites such as cheapair.com I have always thought that travelocity's date search function is inconvenient in that it does not offer a calendar to pick dates from like other similar sites do. I have also had problems with travelocity in that it often times will not return flight fares that other similar sites have. This site is very successful and could be made much more user friendly with some slight tweaks.

The final website I would call largerly ineffective is that of a newspaper from my hometown in norther virginia http://www2.insidenova.com/. I have always found this site to be very unappealing and for the most part boring in comparison to other newspaper's sites. This site lacks much color and seems jammed with advertising everywhere you look. The navigation seems quite confusing and almost randomly placed making the site very user unfriendly. Any buttons or links on the site are very small and dull. There is a decent amount of good content offered on the site, it just seems that after cutting through all the advertising and the complicated navigation that the content becomes almost not worth it.