For this week’s blog post, I chose to analysis the Spring 2017 MSU website for The Social Life of Books.  As an English major, this course came onto my radar last year when two of my friends took the course.  I will be reviewing their work!

What’s working:

I really like the theme they chose.  I think it offers a good, clean backdrop for their information.  I also really enjoy and appreciate how much information is given on each page.  They only have six pages, but each is treated as important as the next.

On the 19th Century Books page, I like how each picture can be clicked on and more information is displayed.  I don’t love that you cannot go back to the previous page easily.  It takes a second to load.  I wish it were more interactive on the home page for the photos.

I also really like their resource page and how organized it is.  Everything about their website is well organized and easily navigable.

How this helps us:

What I’ve learned from looking at this site is that mine and Catherine’s information just needs to stand out a bit more.  Not that it doesn’t already, but each page needs to be its own stage.  The information should really shine within each page.  So, I think we just need to do some more analysis here and there and make each organization page look its best.