- www.weather.com
I am finding this
assignment particurly difficult due to my lack of surfing the internet
recently. Despite this difficulty I was able to find a few websites
that I have frequented thanks to my history folder on my browser.
Winter is my favorite time of year. I love the snow, the cold and
everything else about it. During the winter months my computer browser
is often set at .weather.com. This site offers up-to-the-minute forecasts,
conditions and stories. I am constantly checking if there is a chance
for any type of inclimiate weather including snow, or the occasional
flurry. Regrettably speaking I spend at least 30 minutes of every
day checking to see what the forecast may bring. Overall the weather.com
site is very easy to read and is aesthetically pleasing. The site
uses soft blue, dark blue and white as their standard. The links are
easily distinguished and is overall truly user friendly. The navigational
structure of the site is very simple. When going from the main page
of the site to other portions the main navigational links remain accessible
to the user. The site also contains other information that I find
very useful. For starters it offers road/travel conditions that I
use as the basis for traveling to and from Western Maryland during
the winter months and traveling to the beach during the summer months.
During various times of the year I find the site reliable for other
resources such as allergy reports, vacation reports, hotel searches,
driving tips, flu reports, and any other information that they may
have at any given point that I may find useful. I continue to visit
this site because of its structure and I will continue to do so.
- www.yahoo.com
Yahoo is one of
my favorite websites of all time. I spend hours upon hours on yahoo.
I start of my yahoo experience by signing in. After doing this I check
my email. Once I get through the countless spammings that I face every
day it's off to see who is online among my yahoo messenger friends.
I then usually resume my browsing of the yahoo site. The colors are
also aesthetically pleasing. The red captures the viewer and the white
is calming and the black text makes navigation a breeze. At the bottom
of every yahoo site are the basic navigational links so that the user
can browse effortlessly. Yahoo also has a wonderful site for those
who have never done a web page before. Using that site has made my
life so much easier in so many ways. Yahoo Games was a life saver
during my summer job. I played a game that is similar to Scrabble
to pass the time and improve my vocabulary. Once becoming a member
of Yahoo I was able to customize the colors and links that I wanted
to make it a better experience for me. This is one aspect of the site
that I really enjoy. This site also wonderful for chatting with any
type of group that one could imagine. In addition the site offers
shopping, TV listings, horoscopes, calendar, a "yahoo" personal assistant,
news, yahoo banking, and the list goes on. This site is so large that
there is always something new to explore within the yahoo experience
and that is why I enjoy the site and will continue to come back.
- www.ticketmaster.com
What fun is the
internet without pure entertainment? Not much fun. www.ticketmaster
is one of my favorite sites because it tells me bands and other entertainment
that is coming to a local venue. The site is relatively easy to use.
The first thing I do when I get to the site is type in the UMBC zip
code to bring up all of the upcoming shows that are booked through
Ticketmaster. From that listing I then narrow the shows down according
to venue or type of entertainment. Ticketmaster allows me to see up
to see what's going on in the Baltimore/Washington area up to six
months ahead of time. I can also buy tickets for events online. The
system that they have set up is also very user friendly. It took me
about 5 minutes or so to set up an account with my email address,
credit card information and the amount of tickets I wanted. I can
now print tickets off of the online system with my own printer to
avoid shipping or holding charges. The navigational system allows
the user to search via location, artist, venue, or date. In doing
this it allows the user to search more freely. Although this is one
of my favorite pages I don't spend much time here. I check the page
for updates every now and then. Once I do check for updates I'm usually
on the site for about five minutes. I check to see if there are any
events that strike my interest, if there is one I will put tickets
on hold or buy them on the spot, if not I leave this site to go to
other similar ones. I don't find this site as aesthetically pleasing
as others even though it is user friendly. I keep coming back to this
particular site because it has the information that I want. If another
site had the same information I would visit that one instead.
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