Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Website Critique


Solvetheissues.com

The purpose of this site is to provide a place for people to present problems and discuss ways to develop solutions.  Opinions are shared from conservative, moderate, and liberal viewpoints. 

The intended audience is average citizens. The website says, “We, the people” when describing who must join together to solve the pressing issues of today’s society.

I do not think the site reaches its intended audience.  Personally, I have never even heard of the site before class today. They have only 4 likes on Facebook, one of which is Ryan. On the other hand, they only joined Facebook in March, so it may take some time for their idea to spread. Maybe with a bit more time Solve the Issues will be more popular, but they need to advertise their site on social media sites to get their name better known.

As of right now the site is not useful to me. There are a limited number of issues to discuss, and there are no comments on the provided issues.  Granted, the issue topics were just posted today, so maybe people will start commenting their opinions soon.

I really like how there are various topics of discussion. The one that I find the most interesting is the Energy Strategy for sustainable alternative energies.

As of right now, I will not encourage others to visit this site.  However, if the website starts to pick up interest, I will tell others to visit it.  

This site can be improved by having the pictures corresponding with each issue group link to that issue’s main page.  The website also needs a description for the “Support Solve” tab page.  It just links you to a page for Amazon.  The website also needs a new design for the graphics and color scheme.  Right now the colors are distracting from the purpose of the site. 

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