Internet Love & Hate

March 8, 2009 at 10:59 pm (Uncategorized)

It’s not everyday I blog twice a day, but Abby has asked that we show two examples of  sites we like and sites we don’t like as much but hey I’ll still look at them because why would I know about them if I didn’t go to them.  Anyway.

Sites that are awesomesauce:

http://www.warrenellis.com/

And

http://questionablecontent.net/

So! The first link is to a comic/book author’s blog. The thing with blogs is that they’re easy to navigate. You scroll up, scroll down and click on any hyperlinks that tickle your fancy. I’m not one for fancy graphics or flashy images. If it’s simple, to the point and easy to explore then I’m sold. Same goes for the second link which is to a webcomic I check out daily-ish. Same thing applies to this site as the first, easy to navigate and to the point.

Now, for sites that are not awesomesauce:

http://au.ign.com/

And

http://www.neilgaiman.com/

First things first. I like these sites. I really do, it’s the fact that they’re hard to navigate that makes me cringe whenever I’m on them. Out of the two the latter is the lesser offender, it’s more of a pet peeve than anything that has made me choose it as a disliked site.

First link is for a site all things gaming and it completely fails. Sure the information is great and it looks well presented but the outcome is one that doesn’t work for me. It seems it has a case of too much information it’s trying to get out at one time so that whenever you’re looking at the site you’re bombarded with a whole lot of other stuff you’re really not there for.

As I mentioned before the second site is more of an annoyance than anything else. It’s another blog, but to get to the blog you have to go through the main page, which for something so insignificant is surprisingly frustrating. When you get to the blog the posts seem to kind of melt together, as opposed to the first blog I linked to where that has clear lines everytime a new post is added.

In conclusion, I’m not one for flashyness. If it is a pretty pretty site then that’s cool too, it’s just not really that big of a deal for me as much as easy navigation is.