Website Research: Christopher Rogers and screenrant

As a part of my assessment I need to made my own website so I made some research. This website research will assist me in understanding how to create my own website so I will consider the overall design, colours, and typography, navigation, usability/user-friendliness, links and mobile view. I chose two sites to reviev: Christopher Rogers and screenrant. 

I will start with the Christopher Rogers website. This site isn't very extencive.

The navigation bar is easy to navigate, but is also realy poor. There is only five subpages (including hompage): christopher rogers, selected work, narrative, photo and about.

Homepage is almost whole black and it is hard to see enything. In some way it look interesting, but there is no content.

Sub-page "selected work" exhibit us works picked by artist. Good quality of videos cowers the flows of site in general. 

In sub-page narrative there are only two videos. Probably favorite works of this artist, which show his style of filmmaking.

Sub-page Photo is showing some of his photos. Despite interesting works, it deserves a negative rating due to the website layout being difficult to navigate.

Page About Me presents a photo of the artist, a short description, email address and links to social media which work perfectly.

Finally, I checked mobile view. Although it looks similar, unfortunately the inscriptions in the navigation panel sometimes blend in with the background or text on the page, which makes it very difficult to use.

My overall rating for this website is rather negative. Despite interesting works, the website has many shortcomings and is underdeveloped.

The second website I am going to describe is screenrant. This is an entertainment website presenting information and news from the world of films, series and games.

You can immediately see the very careful workmanship of the website. The most interesting articles of the day are visible in the foreground.

At the top of the page, just below the name, there are links to subpages with the themes most interesting to users.

Below is a very long list of articles, starting with the most recent. 

In the upper left corner there is a navigation bar icon which, when clicked, will open. There are links to sub-pages such as: MOVIES,TV REALITY, TV GAMING, COMICS, ANIME and MORE. 

They all look very similar in terms of graphics and page setup to the home page, so I see no point in describing each one separately. The only significant difference is the focus on a different genre.

Below are self-advertisements and social media connections that work without any issues.

Mobile view is very similar. Everything works without any glitches, and the website itself is very transparent.

Comparing these two sites, screenrant outclasses its opponent. The website is very well designed in every aspect and there is absolutely nothing to fault. This is not a surprise to me, because a whole team of people are working on screenrant, assigned to specific tasks, and Christopher Rogers' website is a low-budget project managed by one person. Neverless, the screenrant website is of a completely different quality and using it is pure pleasure.