Week before last, our class received our Project 2: Part A handout. This was to begin our competitive website audit for the Cafe Artesano Website. To be honest, I was dreading having to look up sites beyond sites of anything coffee.
However, about half way through my searches I found that I was having fun! Comparing the websites against one another was turning out to be quite interesting, and I found myself striving to find even better ones. I found cute little cafe’s all over the place that I had never heard about and looked at the obvious ones like Second Cup and Tim Horton’s. I really enjoyed the Second Cup site. Like the steaming coffee and when you’re waiting for a page to load the brewing cup of coffee percentage. (http://www.secondcup.com)
But, as we all know, sometimes when something is to good to be true (like me having fun doing homework) it all comes crashing to an end. Amongst my searches I found a site that was from Hawaii. I got really excited because the home page had a sweet logo and I really liked the colors.
I than entered the site and I was wowed again. A little message popped up about their mission on how they wanted to serve their guests and give them the best coffee ever. Again, I was pumped to see the rest of this site. But once this mission statement disappeared so did my excitement. I was on the home page and there were no pictures and it was VERY plain. All it had was the KimoBean logo and the navigation bar at the bottom. Also, some of the links didn’t even work! I was so very disappointed. (http://www.kimobean.com)
Take a look. It’ll only disappoint you.
Besides this one unfortunate event, the rest of my time spent looking at other sites went a bit better. There were sites that confused me and ones that were awesome, but none again that made me so happy to SO DISAPPOINTED in such a short period of time.
Finding out that I like website auditing was a surprise.
I’d definitely like to use it to compare other subjects that interest me.
