Good&Bad Website

I chose the imdb website (The Internet Movie Database) as a good and ryanair’s, an airline, as an example of bad website.

I think everyone is familiar with the imdb website. I use this website quite frequently, if I want to find it about a film, an actor, director etc.

• Navigation: The navigation of the site is really good. If you want to find out the name of an actor who played on a particular movie you just need to search on the movie and there is a list with name and the picture of the actors, then you just need to click on the name and there you can get the short bibliography of that actor and list of the films he played. This works vice versa: find out the title of the movie trough an actor etc.

• Information: There is also loads of information about the films, actors, directors. You can find the ‘professional’ information: who, when, where directed/acted in a movie, and movies he directed/played in. Also you can find ‘personal’ information: the actor, director’s bibliography and also some interesting things: height, favorite food etc and some personal quotes. You can also find loads of picture on imdb and people can comment and rate movies at the bottom of the page. We can get some useful information from the comments as well.

• Relevance: On the front page we can find out about the upcoming movies, DVD s. The website is constantly updated and we can find out things about movies that are currently filmed.
  

As a bad website I chose ryanair.com. This is a website of an airline. The design of the website is really poor: it looks that it was made 20 years ago by an 8 years old. It’s too flashy and colorful, it’s tasteless. I think there is also too much useless information, too many navigation icons on the main page: so it looks all over the place. Also the useful information comes in the end: when you think you have booked you flight then you realize that you need to pay extra for this and that (baggage etc). I think it would really important for an airline to have a quite easily navigable, transparent and professional looking website as people will judge the airline also by its website.

While I was writing this I thought about our wiki page and how should look like as people( Nigel:)) will "judge" us by it.. So we should have a well designed and structured (we already have it I think..) easily navigable, ‘clean’ structured website. Also I should be relevant: so people who’re reading it can learn from it, not just repeating something they’re already known!! So hopefully it will be like this, but it’s not easy!!!!!