Reflections of another... » Visual Design http://elearning.edublogs.org Just another elearning weblog Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:54:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Colour, Alignment & Too Much Clicking http://elearning.edublogs.org/2005/10/09/colour-alignment-too-much-clicking/ http://elearning.edublogs.org/2005/10/09/colour-alignment-too-much-clicking/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:29:03 +0000 Kate http://elearning.edublogs.org/2005/10/09/colour-alignment-too-much-clicking/ While looking at a few websites that demonstrate good use of the C.R.A.P principles, I came across the Big Day Out site for 2006. The first thing you notice is the variety of colour and the off centre alignment – a great eye catcher for the opening page. It also contains very little information encouraging the viewer to enter the site. Thats when it became frustrating though; when you move the mouse around an image of a zippo lighter starts to move around the page, the idea is to move the lighter over to the enter button and with a click of the mouse the top of the lighter opens and a flame appears which burns a hole through the word enter which allows you to view the main page with all the information. Maybe this is my activist/kinesthetic learning style coming out but it was SOOO frustrating trying to work that out! I spent 5min clicking on all these different words – i didnt actually read the word enter for awhile becuase i was so drawn to the colourful heading (sometimes getting a flame but nothing happening) until i got annoyed and gave up and read through the tour dates. Then i noticed the word enter and worked out how to get into the site….

talk about blonde moment )

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