a. On the upper-left corner there is a “Low Graphics” in navy blue. The color is similar with the background, which made it very hard to recognize, and if the font size is bigger it would be easier to notice.
b. The navigator in the sections’ order should be “About us, Department, City Council, Community Development, Public Safety, Services (instead of ‘Library, Arts, Parks, & Rec’), and Calendar”, because for visitors they concern more about the city than city council.
c. At the tail of home page, there is an exact same navigator as the main one. This is a redundant, not necessary to save.
d. The home page contents are redundant with each other, such as the “Online Resources…” is redundant with the navigator, especially the “Library Catalog”. If the Online Resources put out something that doesn’t appear on other spaces of the home page, it would be better, such as “Municipal Code” and “Report a Crime.”
e. The title of “City News and Events” is too big for the section that the news items have little space left. The image is well done, but the content is the main role of this section. Put more news here will be better. In this section there is another problem that all these items are not in the same section or level. The first three belong to the section “City News”, whose upper level is Home page, while the last item is under the section “Services”. It looks like “Announcement” is a section in the same level as “City News and Events”, because it occupies the same size space as “City News and Events” and is more effective. To clarify that “Announcement” is a section under “City News and Events” the section title of “City News and Events” should cross the space till “How may we help you.”
f. “Learn About Our City” seems the same as “About us”, change it to another name, such as “City Highlights” or something else would be better.
g. Only the section of “How may we help you” has its title without capitalize all the first letters of each word. To make the whole Home page uniformed, the title should be “How May We Help You”.
The low graphic version:
i. In this version the whole page is not in the middle of the screen but on the left side, which is different from the graphic version.
ii. This page does’t have title and logo.
iii. There is a flash section “Learn About Our City”, which is not low graphic. To keep the two home pages in the same style, the flash could be changed to a static JPG format background.
iv. Not like the graphic version there are no “Contact us”, “Site Map” and date on the page.
v. Starting from this version home page to section page should also in low graphic version, but on the contrary it goes to graphic version and like the home page, only after click on “Low Graphic” would it go to low graphic version section page.
Content Logic:
From “Site Map” showed some logic flaws, such as, “Community Services” is under “Department” section; there are two “Service” sections; it seems there is no difference between “Community Services” and “Services”; “History Center” is under “Library”, but gives only obituary information; there is more library information besides the “Library” subsection; there are seven sections in Site Map, but eight in the navigator; “About Us” section is gone and so on…
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