Website Reviews

It's time for my few website reviews.

You would've thought that with all the pressure on countries to expand their broadband connectivity that the whole world would be using a pretty speedy connection. This is the case in a lot of countries, however, some major website are still fairly basic. Let's take Google and Facebook for example.

Google is probably the most common and used website in the world, yet it's front end design is very very basic. The website literally is comprised of just the logo "Google" which changes very occasionally and then the search box beneath it. Google has been running for years and year yet it's main search engine's website is still very basic.

Facebook, another world-wide accessed website is also very simple, with a blue banner across the top and a very simple picture below to show the connectivity Facebook has with it's users. Each of these websites have to be accessible across the whole world and on many platforms such as iPhones and other mobile technology, and even games consoles. Therefore, the designs have to stay fairly simple to allow for that adaptation between devices.

As they are both world-wide websites, it could be said that as they reach countries that are less developed, they have to keep their website sizes down to make it accessable to places with lower speed internet connections.

Contrasting these sites to the BBC UK website, we can see some differences.

The BBC website has been created with the UK in mind. Before stating your location on the BBC homepage, its pressumes your in London and displays the weather for that location.

As we look at the website, there's a massive increase in colour and photography. This website has been created for a standard browser and for the UK population. As a developed country it is taken as standard that most UK citizens who are accessing the website will have a fast broadband connection and therefore will be able to see the entire website very quickly, and therefore the site size and loading times haven't been considered as much as the other two websites with larger circulation numbers.

The bright colours on the BBC website will attract all users and the colours change, depending upon what time of day, season or the main headlines are. All in all, the BBC website is made with the UK in mind, considering the standard broadband speed of each household, where as Google and Facebook have had to consider the entire world in their design and have adapted their size and imagery accordingly.