Good and Bad Websites

We have been asked to comment on a website that we think it particularly good and a website that we think is not so good.

I have spent a lot of time over that past week or so looking at websites. Most of them have been photographers websites and a lot of them a pretty similar. They include images in category folders, a biography, contact details and a list of books and exhibitions if the photographer is in print or exhibiting. They are normally on a black or a white background. There isn’t much between them except for the images.

The website that I like best is Google http://www.google.co.uk/. I’m sure you could argue that it’s a search engine and not a website but it has a website address. It is clear and easy to use. It answers practically every question that you ask it, and offers web, images, videos, maps, news, shopping, mail and more! They frequently change the graphics to commemorate a special occasion and it has got to be the site I refer to most!

The websites that I like least are the shopping websites that look fussy, are slow to load, don’t give you information about delivery times or whether an item is in stock or not and don’t give you a telephone number that you can call. There are hundreds of them around but the first one I came across was www.gardenfurniture4u.co.uk  This one does have a quick search facility that seems to work.