Comparing Websites

I was talking to a friend who loves coffee, specially coffee shops. She told me about this amazing place in Chili, Rochester; and first thing that came to mind was 'what about their website?'

So I decided to take a look on their website and given my past experience with coffee shop websites I was expecting to see a half good website. Instead I found  this . I think their delivery of information is simple and efficient. With simple graphics but the website is dynamic and fun to look at.

On the other, I found this other website about training bartenders or something like that. I would be sure but because of the lay out of their website and the way the information is presented. I have even more questions than answers. Although their website is interactive with some moving graphics. In my opinion, this website isn't the best giving much information. they could improve that by making the information options more noticeable, most of what I see are graphics of the page and it makes it confusing to find the information on the actual purpose of the webpage   

You Know What's Annoying? : Ads

I like interactive websites that make me wan to click every single thing on the screen. Naturally I'm a curious person that clicks a lot when I'm presented with a new website.

But there are things in some websites that are annoying; understandably there have to be some ads in the website, but some websites abuse this and place so many ads in their lay out that one can't simply trust to click away because one could accidentally click in one of those, of course the point is to make you click the link.

What I dislike about some websites are those annoying ads that look legit options on the website and suddenly they sent you to another thing and are trying to sell you something.

But the most annoying thing I saw in some websites are those annoying video ads, that you don't know when they will be activated. and most of the time activate when you are not looking at that particular tab, and all of a sudden BOOM you can hear audio coming from somewhere and you have no idea where its coming from. So unless you through every tab you're not going to find it. And when you have little to no patience and you close every tab instantly, and for some reason the sound keeps on going. and you realize at some point you were desperate enough and opened explorer and the sound is coming from the tab you never even cared to check.

First post. New semester

Hello, this is Diana Velasquez. For this first post of the semester I want to show two websites of local businesses in Rochester.


First is Cheesy Eddie's. This shop sells cheesecakes and I've heard that they are the best of Rochester; but is their website just as good? Let's take a look.

Cheesy Eddie's 

Their website is clean and neat, however I feel like it's crumpled up in the center toward the right. If I could make it better in any way, I would spread the items and options a bit more, so that the screen is fuller. Also add color, because even tho everything seems to be in pastel color scheme, a little variety maybe in a few stronger colors would make it more obvious where each category of options can be found.

Second is Java's Cafe. This is a coffee place, with several branches around the Rochester area. Java's has earned a couple awards for their good coffee, and here is their website.

Java's Cafe

Their website's design is simple. Simple color scheme. However, their print is too small and it's hard to read. I'm not sure exactly how often their costumers visit their website but if I would have designed this site, I would've made the print size larger. Another thing I noticed about this website, is that when I go through the categories of options there is no change, it makes it seem like is not a link, and that it wont take me anywhere if i click it. It looks like there are no links to nothing. if i could improve this website it would be first, font size larger, and second make it seem accessible. Also it has same layout as Cheesy Eddie's website, everything is in the middle making it look empty on the sides. again it would be nice to see it all around the screen.