Friday, November 18, 2011

dailyburn

When dailyburn first came on the web a year ago as a beta, the website was terrific. But now they have taken away many of the features and made the pay only. I still think it's a great website. A nice thing they have is the tracker where you can track sleep, workouts and nutrition, all for free, I think this feature has users coming back to the website everyday to enter their data for the day. Another nice part of the website is the color scheme, its focused on cool and calming colors. A final great feature they have is the social networking portion, to keep it's users motivated. One thing I would change is making less features pay-only. I would definatly recommend my friend to this site.

dailyburn

Weather

I have used weather.com for awhile now, only because I've found it to usually be accurate.  I don't really like the overall site design though. One part I do not like is the ads, while they are not intrusive they can get annoying as they are all over the side and top of the page. Another part of the website I do not like is the lack of a color scheme, the only colors used are blue and white and basically all of the color is at the top of the page. Another thing I don't like about it is that the website seems to be overly graphical for a weather website. I would get rid of some of the ads if I where them. I wouldn't recommend my friends to this site, I think there are better weather websites out there. 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Youtube

YouTube has been consistently for the last few years been relevant and has enticed and kept daily page views. YouTube has been re-designed a little bit form it's last version, because Google is re-designing most of their products. Most of the changes have been good. One reason I like this site is that they now have a feed of videos that it would think you like and other videos that other people like mixed in with videos from people that you subscribe to. One great newer feature is the video playlist bar at the bottom, here you can add videos that you might want to watch later. A final feature that is great is the sharing button, you can use it to format a link or embed it. One thing that I would change about the website is to create a better comments system, the current one is hard to navigate especially with users commenting on other users comments. I would recommend people to go their as it is entertaining.

YouTube

Netflix

Netflix redesigns their website very often, trying to make it easier for their users. This redesign in my opinion, is great. A major reason why I like the site is that it is extremely focused on a graphical inter-phase, when I want to look for movies I would rather see the cover of the dvd. I like how if you hove-over a movie it will give a more detailed description. The movie recommendation system works really well. I love that you can look up more movies that an actor or actress is in. I would improve on the television section, it is not as organized as the movies. I would reccomend people to use this service, because it is worth the money.

Netflix