Thursday, March 27, 2014

Week 9B In-Class: Non-Profit Site Exploration & Analysis

Yesterday in class I spent most of my time looking through local & regional non-profits for this next project.  I've been really kind of obsessed with dance & theatre these past few weeks (& really most of my life), so I thought it'd be cool to look into doing a project related to one of my passions--outside of design of course!

  

 

 



I ended up picking Art of Recycle to do this project for, again creating two responsive web pages.  I spent the rest of class going through & analyzing the site.

Organization 
Nav: About Us, Get Involved, Workshops, Parties, Bowling, Our Neighbors
  • Blog, facebook, pinterest, twitter, meetup (all social networking links) are under About Us nav - optimal placement?
  • Maps & Directions located under both About Us & Workshops - optimal placement?
  • Contact Us located under About Us - optimal placement?  Should this be its own nav?
  • Bowling is a new part of Art of Recycle's mission, not held within the same building or sharing all of the mission's keypoints.  Should this be a separate entity?
Issues
  • Donate button inconsistent throughout site
  • Our Neighbors content is all one page; each "subpage" is simply an anchor - this is different organization than the rest of the site. Also had to scroll a great length to return to menu
  • Comic Sans...combined with Times New Roman
  • About Us clicks to its own page - not all top-level navs do this - inconsistency
  • Workshops & Calendar click to same page, just with slightly different anchor position  (Same for Parties & Craft Parties)
  • Bowling clicks to its own page, different from Bowling Parties
  • All text centered on page
  • All-around a little difficult to read
  • Text & menu is responsive-ish, while rest of page elements are not

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