Grocery Clutteredness!

So, once again, I was bored and decided to look at a bunch of websites of places that I have shopped at, been to, or passed by. Today, I have chosen SOBEYS! (http://www.sobeys.com)

I enjoyed the first page I came across when I put in the URL. It’s the Region selection page, so you can pick what province you are from and has some pretty nice graphics. After choosing your province, it navigates you to the home page of the website.

However, once getting here I didn’t really know what to do…it’s really boxy and cluttered and busy!

I mean, obviously all the primary and secondary navigation is there, but to me everything looks so EVERYWHERE! I didn’t know where to look first, what I should be looking at first. I guessed the bigger image on the left hand side?? It just seems so cluttered, I don’t really like it.

I think the green is a pretty color though…and I like the recipe page! I enjoy food; who doesn’t!? They have a cool navigation bar on the side where you can search for specific recipes based on the amount of time you have, what kind of food mood you’re in, the occasion, etc.

So I guess it’s kind of half and half than…I like some of the aspects of the website. I think they’re neat ideas, but it could definitely do without the clutteredness of it. However, I can’t really think of another solution that could fix it without adding more and more links or pages.

Jazz

JMAC<3

Wow. I’m surprised that I haven’t written about one of my MOST FAVORITE SINGERS before! I’m pretty sure you all saw this coming at one point or another! =) And if you haven’t heard me talking about him until now, well, you’re missing out! I wanted to use his official website to show you all, but it turns out that I have to sign up again to be a part of the fan club to get access (expired last month =( ). http://www.jessemac.com  (Just in case some of you would like to look!)

So I’ve decided to settle for the next best thing. It is one of the biggest fan sites for Jesse McCartney on the web and looks great! (http://oh-jesse.org/) Remember my post before where I declared how I love swirls, and flowers and anything illustrative really? WELL. This is amazing! What’s better than an image of the beautiful Jesse with an illustrative background!? Two for one! AMAZING.

 

Illustrative Background + Jesse McCartney = Amazing<3

Whew, I could look at that all day. Besides the gorgeousness of my obsession, the rest of the website is pretty cool. It’s also very easy to navigate around.

One thing I noticed that I haven’t seen before on another site is when you click to go on another page, say his FanStuff header, it opens a new window. I thought it would do this for all the other headings (which would be annoying because you’d have so many open) but the other ones stay on the same page as his FanStuff. So in the end, you have a window for the Home page and another for the other headings. It’s different, and you know exactly how to get back to the home page. Cool!

 

SO Goodlooking =)

Hope you all enjoyed this! I sure did.

 

 

Navigation Sweetness

Everytime I visit a new webpage I find myself checking out their navigation. If it’s easy for me to get around the site or if it’s different than any one that I’ve seen before. I can’t remember how I came across this one site, but I’m happy that I did!

Going through the website, (which is http://3oneseven.com by the way) most of their pages have the same navigation like other websites. Click on the header and it leads you to the next page and you look around there for the next link you want to visit. Than I came across the Graphic Design page and the navigation to look through their selected work is really cool!

It’s a gallery navigation. They have 25 different selections you can chose from and when you hover your mouse over them (without clicking anything) it rotates around. On the bottom of the gallery there is a rotating sign. When you click on that, other pieces of artwork fly in and replace ones that are already there. When you’ve decided on which one you’d like to look at, click on it, and it blows up in size, and again with your mouse hovering over it, you can rotate it to look at all sides of it. In the bottom right corner of each piece is another rotating sign that flips the design over and you can see who made it, the time and the date. And than when you click off artwork (white background) it’ll take you back to looking at the selection of work.

I thought this was really cool!

It was really disapointing though, that none of the other pages had cool navigation like this one. The rest of the navigation I found pretty well BLAH.

I thought some of her artwork was pretty neat and if you would like to see some more as well, here is her deviant page. http://milo317.deviantart.com/

Enjoy! =)