Saturday, January 31, 2015

Web Critique 1

Website Name: Politics1.com 
Operated By: 
Ron Gunzburger-“attorney, journalist, businessman, civil servant, and owner of the sole-proprietorship that is Politics1.”
Funded By: Paid advertisements on said website; funding likely handled by Ron Gunzburger

I definitely plan to use this website in the future, for it is truly a great resource! On the website, one can find listings of current candidates for elections and outstanding lists of resource websites organized by Issue topics, among other additional types of information. I am impressed by the website operator’s willingness to include a balance of resources from both sides of the major arguments. Even the descriptions of all the offshoot parties are respectful and factual. One critique I would give for this site is that it is not very aesthetically pleasing. Its navigation menu, and whole website, really, is incredibly simplistic. It was also not very easy to navigate, because in the Directory I could not find any option to direct me to the ideological debates I was trying to find. For some reason after using the search bar, on the search results page I was presented with a slightly different Directory with more options, one being “Issues” which, of course took me right where I wanted to go. But that was only after searching all the home page options to no avail. The site has got great information but to truly optimize its potential, it needs a face-lift and a revamp of the site map. 

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