Explore/Research Sites

1. Identify the core purpose of the site.
2. Identify how the site accomplishes this task.
3. Identify what unique features the site has to make this experience better.

Site #1
The Masonic Villages Trust
http://masonicvillages.co.nz/

Providing informations for elderlies and or families about the care services for elder people. Having many different places you can go to instead of a limited choses.  This is shown and accomplished by having the main living idea or service they wanted in big tabs and images underneath it.

The uniqueness of this page made me really like for simple and easy click to know where other places is to have a map with locations placed on it. Having the idea on instead of going though many pages to find other linked place, it takes you right there right away to the location your in.

Site #2
St John New Zealand - First to Care
http://www.stjohn.org.nz/  

The purpose of this site is to get information out to people wants to learn and help with first aid. Having community to help out and getting donation to get the service going. This is shown with many different part of information placed at section (tabs) so it is easy to find what you wanted to learn or find.
I found this site really welcoming with the bright colours and simple layout. On the top third of the page, Images are shown with it moving/changing every few seconds across with some heading at the bottom when hovering on it.

Images link to the services, things might happen in events, peaceful writing time so it relates to them

Site #3
CafeMom - Moms Connecting About Pregnancy, Babies, Home, Health, and More.
http://www.cafemom.com/

The main core purpose of this site is a social networking site which is specifically target at mothers and mothers to be. It for mums featuring original content covering topics such as celebrity gossip, parenting dilemmas (and solutions), current events, and home decorating. When going onto the site, there are big average sized rectangle boxes where the main and I guess the most popular events, join conversations, Go to Advises, See Entertainment, Groups and video links ect.
The colour contrast work to make it nice and warm to be on. The big rectangle coloured boxes Links mothers right to the conversation group/or readings.

I really like this idea at the starting page.

The image at the bottom shows the home open page where it represent and show the mothers what they have to see and in for for the service group.

 

At the bottom of the web page, showing that not only going onto this site to meet mothers around, you can still find mothers that goes on here but connect with them on other sites, and watch more, share more with others that doesn't know about this site.

Site #4
Welcome to our school - Eastern Hutt School
http://www.easternhutt.school.nz/Website/Home.html

This main core purpose is a school web-site. It is a place where childern  and parents can go to for information and events. Having tabs at the top links the users to go to the place, and than there are other  links (tabs) that you click into to go to specified area. There are pro and cons with this site though, some sites are being really colourful, but the others are not linking with the theme and area of design and its plain.

          Detailed (Images Linked with words)                                Plain (text only)

Simple and straight forward Homepage. Eye for the eye