Module 2 Post

Clicky

So this is the homepage of an online political newsletter. The design problems with it are many. Here are a few:

Contrast: The entire page is done in white, blue, black and red. It is boring and lifeless. There needs to be some more colors, maybe even a graphic or two if they were feeling crazy. You can scroll to anywhere in the page and it will look the same as what you were just looking at. Yes, technically there is some contrast between the background and the text, but it is so web 1.0 that it just doesn't count for anything.

Repetition: The principle of repetition has been perveted in this newsletter. Everything looks the same. They need to start repeating maybe an interesting font they use for headlines only. Or they could get a logo that they place in places where they want to draw attention.

Alignment: Alignment, too, has been completely taken off the deep end. The strict three column format looks like something you would find in HTML for Simpletons. Again, a few choice graphics couldd add some life, if they used them as, say, part of a header.

Proximity: Everything is too close together. And with the entire newsletter in times new roman, it tends to run together. If they insisted on keeping it in only one font, they should space it out, maybe put one thin menu frame on the left and the wide info article links with paragraphs a little farther from the left.