Presidential Candidates

When searching for the presidential websites it was very easy to find the official website. I typed in the candidates name into google adn the first website was the official site. The websites are very user friendly and even someone with little experience can navigate the sites. Each has ways to donate or volunteer to help the campaign. Along with ways to view speeches and pictures. Barack Obamas website seems very friendly the first thing that caught my eye is neighbor to neighbor meaning he very friendly and wants to get involved in the everyday things that are going to impact your life. McCains site is laid out more politically with topics in the front and seems more official or business like. The websites are intended for all audiences it appears to me that a older person who has little internet experience could use one of the websites and get the information that they needed. However I feel like Obamas appeals to more people then McCains his site seems more friendly and open. It's clear that the designer of the web page wanted it to appeal to everyone in some way and have it accessible to all people. The websites are very organized and the tool bars at the top make it easy to find all information.

Color on Web Pages

From the article I learned the most effective ways of using color. By only adding 4 colors one being a background another being a main color and the other 2 as contracting highlighting colors. This gives your page enough color to keep people interested and isn't boring but its not to much to confuse the viewer and sway them away from using the page. I also learned that if the site will be displaying lots of images the colors should try to match the 4 most common within the images. It's important to use color as highlighting because it draws the eye to it however you should'nt rely on it with code.

One good example of color use is: http://www.surfline.com/home/index.cfm
This is a surfing website the main color being blue which fits most images displayed along with highlighting colors of white and orange.

A bad example of color use is: http://members.tripod.com/nwr_home/rainbow.html
This is a bad example there is no highlighting colors the type is all in one color and the backgroudn and horizontal lines are a very distracting rainbow. The important part which is the font doesnt stand out at all.

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