LO5 - Evaluation

After looking through the user testing feedback there were no initial flaws in the design or the way that the weskit looked (house style etc). The user testing was carefully thought about so that no part of my website will not have been evaluated, therefor getting an overview of the entire website. I then went through my website again, this time as a critique rather than someone who was creating content. I realised that there were a few flaws in my website that I would personally change.  The most drastic thing I would change is the overall house style of the website itself. After careful consideration I realised that the website would look better if they have been changed to be in line with the small machine red cog, which is a major part of the branding.

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After House Style Change to the Navigation Bar

 Here is an example of changing the house style on a major part of the website, with the red matching the logo, creating a more striking appearance. The red also contrasts in a very appealing way to the murky blue.


Other Changes

Another change I would make is to make the website more practical for a user interested in purchasing a product. Enabling the images in the store to be enlarged by a magnifying glass tool to help the user look at the high quality images in more detail. Ensuring they can see that the product will be decent quality.

About and Contact Information

The About page and the contact information was the biggest change I had to make to my website, and the thing I had to consider the most. I didn't want to come across as repetitive, but I did want the contact details on every page available. The way I overcame this simply meant making the contact information at the footer. But then I had to decide what the About page was about, I didn't want to remove the page entirely because it is a convention used on most websites. So I decided to use that page to write information about the website.

Example of the about page and contact information as a footer