Website Critique

Craigslist http://hattiesburg.craigslist.org/

By now we have all heard of Craigslist. Craigslist is a website that connects the user to different sources.  For instance, people use if for personal reasons to sell things or even to get a date .Many people visit this website to find the best deals and it is a way to do free advertising. It is like an online classified for free. You would think for this website or webpage it would be more creative. One thing I like about Craigslist is that you can find almost anything if you search it. Although this is a great website, it calls for a few changes that need to me made in order to make it more pleasing to the eye of the user.

Before I critique this website, it should be known what the website looks like as is.  First off let’s start with the whole theme and color of the page.  The page is a white background with no pictures. As soon as you click the site it pops up to main screen according to the city you live in.  From looking at the page, I see or what I think to be are 14 font letters.  The color of the font seems to be an ocean blue color.  The words are all jumbled together as if you were looking for something.  For example, to paint the reader s mind about the site, think of a junkyard. In a junkyard, you know it’s going to be hard to find something. This is what Craigslist webpage reminds me of when I see it.  The best thing I can say about this website it that you get what you pay for. Seeing that this website is free to post ads, I guess it doesn’t matter what the website looks like long as they are able to do what they need to do.

If I got to critique this webpage these are some of the things I would do. First off I would have to pay attention to color. Color has a lot to do with the imagination of the users. Recently in class s we discussed how colors can make people feel a certain way or feel a type of emotion. I feel that if the creator of this webpage put time into thinking of a good color for the page, then it would make the users who visit the webpage have a pleasant experience. The second thing that I would maybe add is a pleasant picture to help with the user’s imagination. A good picture would help the user navigate through the page with ease. I really don’t have in mind what kind of picture that would help, but I know it should be something that attracts the users. The color of the font and size is acceptable to eye. It caught my attention. This is something I only would change if the white background changes. If that were to happen, then you would have to change the color or size in order to coordinate with the theme of the page. Overall this is a good website. With a few adjustments to the color of the background, spacing, and maybe adding a picture, this would be a good website that would help make the visitor’s visit a pleasant one.  I am in no way bashing this website because it has to a lot to offer someone for free advertisement.  Many people might not see anything wrong with the website, but I hope from my recommendations that it kind of open the graphic designer’s mind to some things I noticed from visiting the site often.