COIT20268 Responsive Web Design for Overview of Makezine
Question
Website: http://makezine.com/
You are to provide a formal report documenting your critical evaluation of the website. The review is to be carried out within the context of responsive web design (RWD) and development principles. The report should draw particular attention to the interactive aspects and design aspects relating to responsiveness of the overall website. Support your critique with appropriate RWD principles.
(1) Clearly identify the nominated website. Provide an overview and description of the nominated website.
(2) Identify and elaborate the main feature or features of the website.
(3) Identify the positive and negative aspects of the website. Draw particular attention to the interaction and usability aspects of the interface.
(4) Invite two other persons to review the nominated website. All reviewers should use identical device settings. These participants can be your friends, family members or classmates etc. Provide the background (i.e. age, gender, profession) of the participants. Do their views differ from yours’? State why or why not.
(5) Based upon your critique and observation in items (1) to (4) of the above, provide a recommendation on how the website should be improved. Conversely, if it does not require further improvement, then provide the reason why that this is the case.
(6) Except for item (4) of the above, all assertions relating to RWD design principles (e.g. statements like ‘blue text on red background is a poor colour combination’ )
(7) Comment on the tools (i.e. Chrome device simulator) you used for the review. Elaborate on the advantages and disadvantages of such a tool. Search and briefly comment on similar tools available for testing and reviewing RWD web pages.
(8) Figures or diagrams can be added as needed.
Answer
Introduction
Makezine.com is one of the most popular American website which is used to publish several magazines related to innovations and projects. Maker media is mainly responsible for creating these magazines. The primary objective of this online site is to deal with the projects which involve innovations related to the robotics, computers, electronics and metal working. This website provides the platform for the individuals to make several complex and simple projects and to entertain an individual with the joy of innovation (Hartman, 2014). These projects may need very simple goods or materials which are easily available in our surrounding and even the household goods can also be used to make such projects. This website was initially introduced in the year of 2005 and it can be accessed from different systems like computers, mobile and electronic tablets. It also had a HTML based platform which provided the users with the free access to various blogs, forums.
This website launches various types of events including crafts, arts and engineering projects for the public interest and to welfare of arts and science. This report discusses about the responsive web design (Schultz, 2016). Responsive website design is used to understand the outline of the design of the website from various devices like desktops, phones and tablets. It is also used in order to improve the features of the website like resolutions and display on the screen of any device.
In this report several reviews are drawn about the outlook and feature of the website and analyze the responsive website design on the basis of different device simulator. The advantage and disadvantages of using this websites are also discussed in this report.
Overview of Makezine
From the first look of this website it is seen that the standards and necessary objectives are followed carefully in case of designing the interface of the website. It also put importance in the primary needs and features which are important for the users. The outlook and the in
terface of the website are attractive to the users from various part of the world. It also creates a brand value with respect to the style and the content of the websites (Kloxin & Bowman, 2013). Makezine mainly entertain people by providing a platform to innovate several objects based on science, engineering and arts. This leads people to use this website from several devices like mobile phones, computers, and tablets (Oplinger, 2014). It is necessary to include the features which allow the website to be accessed from several websites. The responsive website analysis has taken into account for the reason that the website is being accessed through several platforms and devices. This website is accessed from different parts of the world and the applications are accessed by people from different regions. For this reason this website has a proper navigation which is also very important for the website. For the users who use the smart phone generally get the navigation option in the top of the display screen and in computers this option is shown in the required place (Ignore, 2012). It also follows an application of the flexible grid which helps to differentiate this website with respect to its brand value (Perry, 2012). This website is also used in terms of making the interface well managed in terms of content and the highlighted information are shown properly. The interface is also not overcrowded with respect to the contents.
Description
Makezine is an American online site which mainly serves new innovative concepts consisted with technologies and ideas which can be implemented through several electronics gadgets, computers and robotics (Schultz, 2016). The interface of the system is also attractive for the people. The most popular things which are created through this website are consisted of digital fabrication, 3D printer robotics, Dev boards, educational tools and the skill builders. The primary elements of the projects are craft, science, arts, drone, digital fabrication and the gift guide. This website arranges the main issues related to the system which can also make the system more advanced in terms of implementing the beginner’s kit and the 3d printer. This websites also provide the newsletter, portfolio, setting camp (Ratto and Boler 2014). An interesting thing related to this website is that it requires the users for only general things and goods which can be collected from our surrounding and house.
Primary features of the website
Website of Makezine primarily put emphasis on DIY which refers to Do It Yourself. That tells about the website that the platform is provided for the users to design several projects by them. The other feature is DIWO which refers to the concept Do It With Others. The technologies and ideas which can be implemented through several electronics gadgets, computers and robotics are mainly given importance in this website. The interface of the system is also attractive for the people. The most popular things which are created through this website are consisted of digital fabrication, 3D printer robotics, Dev boards, educational tools and the skill builders (Reas & Fry, 2015). The primary elements of the projects are craft, science, arts, drone, digital fabrication and the gift guide. This website arranges the main issues related to the system which can also make the system more advanced in terms of implementing the beginner’s kit and the 3d printer. This websites also provide the newsletter, portfolio, setting camp. An interesting thing related to this website is that it requires the users for only general things and goods which can be collected from our surrounding and house (Brown & Green, 2016). In the future cases it is seen that the website is popular due to the implementation of the innovative ideas to the common people and to provide them the platform for making the new technologies related to arts and science.
Identification of the positive and the negative aspects of Makezine website
There are many advantages of using the Makezine website which are discussed in this section (Igoe, 2012). The main advantages of using this website is that it provides the advantages of using the responsive website utility that basically enables the website to run in several devices including the computers, mobiles, tablets and other electronics display gadgets. This has also different aspects of using the consistent branding by using the optimized SEO, simple maintenance, user experience and optimized SEO and it also cuts the need of mobile version of a website. A responsive website is that which can accumulate several devices for the implementation of the information in those from the aspect of the responsive website (Morgan & Eve, 2012). The responsive web design of the system is also an important tool for the Google and the main advantage of using the system. The main advantage of using the website in the Google can also lead to more popularity of the website. As it is already known that the website is used from different devices, there is no need to update the system for different kinds of devices. That means that the different systems do not need different updates for the different devices and the main advantages of this feature is that it can make the system more platform friendly. Another important advantage of this website is its flexibility as it can be accessed from any system software and platforms (Oplinger, 2014). Another advantage of this website is that it can make the system faster in response.
There are also some issues related to this website (Wong, 2013). There are some disadvantages related to the responsive website which is provided by the Makezine website. The main disadvantage of making the system with respect to the responsive website is that the time of the loading is increased and thus it leads to the sluggish response of the website. The different aspects of the system are also related to the main disadvantage of the system which caused due to the implementation of HTML/CSS codes to several types of domains (Mallon, 2014). In some cases the images cannot be modified in terms of the size as the system has some issues related to it. It also does not provide the aspects of changing the contents and the data of the website. Responsive website is designed in terms of making the website in such a way so that the website can be accessible for different types of devices. This process ultimately makes the whole response of the website much slower (Brown & Green, 2016). This also put more emphasis on the planning and the updating of the website from the point of view of increasing the load on the main structure of the website.
Review of Makezine website from two users
In this section the review of two individuals are taken about the website. Those reviews are discussed below.
Mr. John William of age 30 years is an engineer by profession and he rated the website 4 star. He was quite satisfied with the features and service provided by the website (Hurst & Kane, 2013). He wrote in the review about the response and the accessibility of the website and expressed that it was a quite good experience to work in the platform of this website. The main advantage of using the website is that it provides a platform for innovating new projects based upon the concepts related to science and engineering and the main advantage of using the website. The appearance of the website was also good enough to him as there are very few amounts of ads in the page and the main page is also designed in a well structured way (Morgan & Eve, 2012). He also stated that few issues were faced related to the response time of the website.
Another lady Ms. Erik Smith of age 35 also used this website and rated it with 5 stars. The main concept also impressed her as it delivers the users with a platform to make and innovate several projects by using normal materials and things which are available in our surroundings and in house and the main advantage of using these elements in making an innovative thing is that the cost can be lowered in a huge amount. She stated that the response of the website was good enough to run throughout the whole ti9me. She also stated that she liked the interface of the website in overall (Moisio, Arnould & Gentry, 2013). The main advantage of using the website was to create the system based on science and arts in an easier way. She was also happy about the speed of the website. She is also very happy with the feature called DIY which refers to Do It Yourself. This new feature has helped her a lot in making the project.
From the above discussion it is cleared that both the users of the website are quite happy with the platform and are also very comfortable in using the website. Both of them have been quite satisfied by using the concepts extracted from the website in making several things based on arts, science and engineering (Brown & Green, 2016). The first user has conveyed some issues related to the speed of the response of the website in case of loading the videos.
Analysis of Responsiveness of Makezine Website
Chrome simulator provides the following responses with respect to different reolutions.
Figure 1: 1280x768 pixels view
Figure 2: 480x640 pixels
Figure 3: 700x960 pixels
Figure 4: 200x320 pixels
Figure 5: 400x640 pixels
Description of the review tool
There are several review tools which are used in providing the review of several websites with respect to several aspects of the website (Katterfeldt, 2014). The primary function of the chrome simulator is to provide the rating and the advantages and disadvantages about the interface, response and utility of the website. It also provides the indication that whether the website can be run in different types of devices and display system having several resolution of the screen. The chrome simulator used in the review tool is also used to check the response of the website in case of facing several risk factors by the website (Andersson & Titov, 2014).
In this case the chrome simulator is used and the several advantages and disadvantages of the simulator are discussed in the following.
Advantages of the chrome simulator
The chrome simulator is one of the best simulators in case of reviewing the websites and it has also one of the fastest responses. It readily sets up a good environment which is very comfortable and easy to the user (Beaver, 2012). This simulator is also secured in case of checking a website. Several aspects of the website can be understood with the help of the different features of the website. Screen fly simulator provides 27 views which include desktops, tabs and cell phones (Tanenbaum et al. 2013). There are approximate ninety rotation options provided by this simulator that will switch the view from one mode to another. It provides a simple, clean and attractive interface for the users. Dimension tool kit provides a very attractive interface and multiple viewing option for its clients. Dimension simulator can be used to provide a very good interface for its users. It is considered as the latest version of tools.
Disadvantages of the chrome simulator
Chrome device simulator does not take consideration of the hardware requirement of any file. The results of simulation are very difficult to analyze due to incomplete availability of data (Ma & Tian, 2014). Some simulators like screen fly, dimension toolkit, studio Press can be considered similar to Google chrome simulator.
Other review tools other than chrome simulator
There are various kinds of simulator under the GNU that is the general public license which collaborates in the simulation techniques. There is also several software which are used for the simulations and those are Ascend, Facsimile, GNU Octave and Freema and many more (Tanenbaum et al. 2013). These also provide several environments for the simulation of different websites in various resolutions.
Recommendations
From the above discussion several issues have come out and to overcome those issues following recommendations are given.
- The response of the website can be made faster.
- The time taken by the videos shown in the websites to be loaded can be deceased in order to get a faster response.
- The website should be updated and maintained on a regular basis in order to get a secured platform for the users.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it is concluded that the Makezine website is an important platform for providing the users in innovating several objects and projects based on science, arts and engineering. The primary objective of this online site is to deal with the projects which involve innovations related to the robotics, computers, electronics and metal working. This website provides the platform for the individuals to make several complex and simple projects and to entertain an individual with the joy of innovation. These projects may need very simple goods or materials which are easily available in our surrounding and even the household goods can also be used to make such projects. The advantages and the disadvantages are also discussed in details and those are also justified with respect to the user’s reviews which are given in the website. The chrome simulator is used here to get the review of the website from the aspects of the displays having different resolutions. Finally it can be said that it is an outstanding platform provided by the website for the users to innovate.
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