Irish Shipwrecks

http://www.irishwrecksonline.net/

 

 This is a perfect example of a website that is the exact opposite of user-friendly. The opening page to the website is an eye-sore to the user, but welcoming them. It also requires you to press this small image to continue to the next page or main website. Once you press the ship, it takes you to another page asking about terms and conditions. This could’ve been with the first contents with the first page but the creator kept it separate. 

 Most of the website is very hard on the eyes and difficult to follow through with. A good example of this happening would be in the “References” section of the page. Although the website does follow through with sections and headers, the links lead to non-user-friendly pages that are hard to follow and read. "References" is a list of books and references as the name mentions, but the webpage makes it difficult to read fluidly. The table that includes the content for the webpage has no proper positioning.

 As chapter eight informs, fonts, typography, white space, and other visual elements are going to be decided through the audience that is targeted. This website doesn’t really seem to target a specific audience except for people who are researching Irish shipwrecks. The website is designed to look childish and clunky, not exactly suitable for people who are researching Irish shipwrecks. There’s an unnecessary amount of white space and some visual elements that don’t correlate well with the contents of the webpage.

 There is also no real paragraphing format as read in chapter fives. The page goes straight to the idea of shipwrecks and the times/facts about them. The headings are very clear but the contents within the pages from the headings are often disappointing. 

 It’s a real surprise that this page is still being updated, the last update on this page was in 2019, making it close to being up to date or just straight up to date.