Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Informal Proposal

Here his my proposal:

My major question is thusly, what is the design that best brings people back to websites? I am going with Entertainment blogs as the type of website that I am going to be looking into. This will be interesting, as generally blogs are engendered to follow a certain setup: banner up top, major stories below that, and the roll of stories below that. So, I put forward, what makes this such a popular setup, and could something make it better?

My methodology would be interesting. Really, my methods would be to go through a series of blogs dedicated to entertainment (in the realms of video games, movies, comics and television) and see what makes them tick, and what makes them work, and break down what could make them better.

My discussion is interesting. I cannot really quantify it here and now, but as said, I would explore what would make these websites better, what needs improvement and what not, and discuss what it means in terms of real world application, and see what we could look at in our lives to make these sites work better.

In a nutshell, I am going to do what I normally do (read through countless blogs) and this time critique them! Should be fun.