I believe the best project belonged to Albert. Albert's vampire fan site had the most content to keep any visitor interested. He had a method to obtain email addresses, doubling as user interaction. It wasn't necessarily the most related content all the time, but it was enough content to make anyone interested in something there. However, only problem was it was a bit dense. That aside, it was the most complete with the most content available. It would definitely be compelling to any hard-core moviegoer.
http://respectablepress.net/vampfansite/
The second best project I believe was my own. I had a few methods of visitor interaction, asking their input. This included both a "suggestion box" and the "FML" style manly event submission box. It involved an easy-to-use registration method, ensuring a valid e-mail address through verification. As for content, my content is more on the minimal side, because from my own experience with internet trends it is user-driven content that brings people to a page, not the content generated by the web page itself. I made the design itself clean, with large areas for single section content. However, it could certainly use more compelling reasons to visit to begin with.
http://manfilms.hunterunknown.com/
The third best would belong to Jose with his kung fu themed fan site. His site had a lot of written content in the form of reviews. Also, the site itself was a modern template-style type, which gave it a clean feel. It incorporated clean layout, though it was slightly confusing to have so many content areas at once. His reviews and clean, large graphics make it more compelling to stay on and visit again when content has been updated. It seems dynamic, actually implying content will be updated. This is attractive. however, it just needed to be filled a bit more to really give it that polished feel.
http://joserosariolopez.com/kungfu/
The fourth place would belong to Minnie. Her page was clean, well-built in a blog-style fashion. Being blog style it implies frequent updates that any avid reader would visit again. Also being a blog-style page, it is RSS compatible, allowing easy readership. The only thing really lacking seemed to be content in general. The framework was very apparent, but it needed to be filled with relevant, compelling content to draw in the readership. Other than that, it was a truly attractive page. My only other suggestion would have been to make it more apparent in its movie-driven purpose.
http://lunaobscuradesign.com/fantasyObsession/Coming%20Soon!/old-school-favorites/
Kiely's page would be ranked last by default here, not because it was bad, but because it lacked a certain feel of completeness. When a user visits a site, the impression that the site is polished really sticks. If it isn't, that impression sticks even more. However, I know he is still going to update and improve it, bringing even more compelling reasons to visit the page. I thought the multi-page survey was a great way to involve users into staying on the page and placing trust. The on-page method for commenting was easy-to-use and appropriate for placing everywhere.
http://fagabeefee.com/browse-movies-alphabetically/
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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