Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Website Critique

A. What is the purpose of the site?
The purpose of the site is to post different types of issues that are currently being discussed. It gives the opportunity for any issue to be discussed without any type of bias affecting it. 

B. Who is the intended audience?
The intended audience is anyone who wants to learn more on an issue or has something to contribute to the issue being discussed.

C. Do you think that the site reaches its intended audience? Why or why no?
No becuase the site only offers only a few topics to discuss. For example there is only one topic listed for education and has no posts. This means that people cannot contribute to a wide range of discussions. No one seems to be accessing the site at all because there are only a few posts, if any, for each topic. The site only has about 5 different topics. This shows me that the website is not being accessed by the audience. 

D. Is the site useful to you? 
No this site is not useful to me because it does no offer much information I find valuable. For example, I went on the healthcare topic and read the one topic posted. The post title was really long and hard to understand. The post itself was really short and did not offer much insight into the healthcare system. It did not post any links or resources to go to if I wanted to learn more. Overall, I do not feel like I learned anything on this issue by accessing the site which defeats the main point of the site.

E. List one interesting fact or issue that is addressed.
SAT statistics were pretty interesting. I was unaware that scores were so low. The only bad thing is no one commented on the post and there was no reference to where they got the information. 

F. Would you encourage others to visit the site?
No, the site was not informative. I really did not learn anything new. I don't think recommending this site to others would be beneficial at all because the site has no substance. 

G. How could the site be improved?
There are many things that could improve this site
  1. Have more general, current issues to discuss
  2. I don't understand how buying from amazon supports the site. 
  3. Make site look more professional (change colors, use some links to support ideas)
  4. Make it more appealing to people who have knowledge on the topic 
  5. Make each tab understandable and easy to use because I don't understand the purpose of some. 

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