The site is simple, yet effective. Its easy to navigate with clear bright navigation buttons. Its also very user friendly.
The first thing I noticed about the website is that there are navigation buttons at the top of the page. I particularly liked that if you ran the mouse over the buttons they would change colour from black to bright pink. This was very edgy and attention grabbing. I would like to use this for my website if possible. The shape of the navigation buttons is simple but funky and unique. I feel this is also a good idea when trying to attract a teen based audience.
Bellow the navigation buttons is an interesting element to the website. Its a picture section which allows you to click on any picture you want and the website will enlarge it in the centre of the page. (The picture bellow shows what I'm talking about!)
This element adds variety to keep the audience interested. I definitely consider using this to keep my website attractive and interesting.
There is a search bar at the top of the page allowing users to search for something particular. I like the background used on 4Music's website. Its very bold and attention grabbing. Although, this could also distract some users from the main content.
To navigate this page you simply click on any of the navigation buttons or search for something, its generally very simple and easy to navigate. The website has 5 different navigation buttons, so its not too much. It offers 'artists and tunes', 'on tv' and 'free stuff', I like the idea of having an option of seeing what free 'stuff' you can get with 4music. This is something I could consider when building my own website, I could possible advertise offers and free things on my website :)
4Music doesn't have too much content, in fact I don't think the site has enough content. I will try and include more content on my website, but not too much.
The site includes a top 10 music chart on the right side of the page.
The site includes 4 other main pages: Artist and Tunes, Free Stuff, On TV and Monkey.
The site also includes a gallery featuring pictures of artists, I think this is a good idea and I plan on using a 'Gallery' as part of my websites content.
The site also includes a hyperlink to a page named Monkey, I was curious to what this was about. This is an offer to users, sponsored by Orange, allowing the users to listen to any music, create play lists, get free texts and download music for free whenever they want.
Every page on 4Music's website is consistent in terms of layout and discourse features.
Although this is a good quality, I feel that there should be more of a variety, like BBC Switch for example. They have different colours for each page, yellow for music, red for news etc.
I very much like the 4Music's logo, I think its simple, easy to understand and easy to remember, which is most important.
A very good analysis of the 4Music website Natasha. Good coverage of navigation, layout, content, colours and general usability and you have used appropriate screenshots to demonstrate features used on the site.
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