Power of Websites
As we are a group of children, who like to create and edit images and want to learn how to create great websites, our main goal was to find out the importance of images in building the websites. We wanted to know our friends opinion about our question - is the content of websites more important than the images. So we created a survey using simple questions. Our plan was to analyze the answers and the result of our analysis will be the information we needed.
Here are the questions from our survey:
1. List your favourite websites
2. Why do you like these websites?
3. Is the design of website more important than content?
4. List the websites, you don't like?
As a result of our survey we created a list of most liked and most disliked websites.
We found out, that all our pupils especially like one webpage - the search engine www.google.com. When we asked them why, the answer was the same - it is a great search engine.
Another website is Wikipedia because of the great content. Our pupils usually use Google or Wikipedia, when they search for online school material, and as these websites were the most popular websites, we got answer to our question - Content is the most important part of websites. Many of the selected websites were, of course, gaming websites. The most interesting thing for us was the fact, that one of the leading gaming websites, Miniclip was not rated as high as we have expected. It has a lot of nice images and many flash animations, so it was a great representative of the websites that use the power of image to gain more visitors. Gaming websites with best rating in our survey were some other gaming websites, that didn’t look so colorful and animated, but had a lot of great games with interesting game play.
In the last group of websites from our survey there were websites from popular music groups, mostly because of their popularity and secondly because of their appearance. These sites do not have very important content, but children still visit them now and then to see latest images or information about their favorite band.
From the results of our analysis we have made the following decision.
The images on the websites are important. Many children said, their favorite websites lack nice images and animated graphics, although they have great content and educational value. When we asked them, if they will stop using these websites because of their looks, they said no. On the other hand there were some websites, which children described as great sites with great animations, but without a lot of content, so they do not use these sites very often. In fact they could easily forget about them and not use them anymore.
The conclusion:
The power of images is strong for the first-time visitors, as the images can make you look at the website longer. When you are browsing the internet you can see a lot of websites, and you can not remember all of them. The ones that have nicer, more visible images are remembered more often. However, when you are a returning visitor, you quickly get bored by the same images and then only the content can keep you interested. When a website has great content, it can convince their visitors to return again, and it becomes more recognizable from the vast selection of websites on internet.
