I chose to analyze an entertainment website found at this link
Collegehumor is an entertainment website that is mostly aimed towards college students, many of them male.
What is the most important feature of an effective website? I feel that, first and foremost, a website needs to be easy to navigate and have good usability. A website can look awesome with fonts, graphics, and colors, but if it is really difficult to figure out how to navigate then no one will use it. I feel that collegehumor is relatively easy to navigate, but it may require some previous knowledge and use of the site in order to be able to expertly navigate it. For example, they post the featured articles, pictures, and videos on the home page of the site but, in order to see all of the articles and other features, you have to find the link for what you are looking for.
Hypertext can make an article slightly confusing when it is overused. If an article constantly has links and photos throughout the text, it can take away from the point the author is trying to convey. I was confused about this site when the article I was trying to read took me to another site entirely when I clicked on the link. This site also has advertisements everywhere they can manage to put them; so when you accidentally click on the space to the left of your article, you will be taken to another site.
Hypertext can really help a website cite their sources or seem more legitimate when publishing their articles. If the site has a few links at the end of the article to the author's website or perhaps similar articles, this can make the article seem more legitimate as well. Collegehumor always has a link to the author's page and usually recommends other works within the site to further one's experience at the site. Many articles have pictures that reveal something if you scroll over them, which seems to help make the article more interesting.
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