Webpage: Afghanistan – The Violent Frontier

http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/afghanistan/main.html

  • How well does the site use navigation?
  • How effectively is it designed?
  • How effectively does it use photos, graphics, broadcast and interactive elements? List the elements that are present.
  • How well are the stories written/presented/packaged?
  • What did you love about it? Hate about it? Why?

Firstly, this website impresses me by its color. There are only two colors: back and white. When I look at the front page, I immediately think about the war and death. So this website is successful about the color if the designer want readers to imagine something behind the color.  However, it is not like the news website. It is more like the game website about the war and battles. The front page is boring. It is not active, not animated. There are only text and images. The main things they used are photo (slideshow), video and audio. The navigation is simple. The readers need more options to link pages.

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