Table of contents Introduction 1

Table of contents

Introduction 1
Analysis of the selected website 2
Overview 2
Good approach in design 2
First good approach 3
Second good approach 3
Third good approach 3
Fourth good approach 3
Problems in design and usability 4
First problem 4
Second problem 4
Third problem 5
Recommendations 5
Self-created website overview 5
Visual Design 6
Code clarification, Navigation and Java 6
Summary 8
Reference list 8

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Introduction

The main objective of this report is to analyze the existing website by emphasizing several good approaches in design and usability. Along with good practices, the problems in designing and usability have been examined and suggestions have been given to overcome those mentioned problems. Moreover, this report is aimed to give an overview of the built and developed website for the assignment with the description of the website itself, such as what the topic of the website is, what software was used and what the code clarifications of navigation, java is. In addition to these, the code fragments with further explanations have been introduced to give much clear understanding.

Analysis of the selected website

Overview

The existing website that has been chosen for the analysis is (http://review.uz/) an official website of “Экономическое обозрение – Economic Review” is owned by an individual person (in accordance to the information obtained from the “contact us” page of the website) as a virtual blog of paper of “Economic Review”. This website is mainly information providing blog, with up-to-date news related to the country’s economic reforms, politics, education, business, culture, technology, social-environmental facts and so on. Along with this information there are several articles related to the topics mentioned above. The main target audience of the website is mainly people aged above 16 or so. Because the information provided in the content of the website is more academic and not attractive or useful for people aged below 16. Many sources there, additionally, can be referenced for writing different academic papers, which precisely means that the target audience of the website can be students or teachers as well. Moreover, having noticed a specific feature in the website, it has to be stated that the another target audience of the website is Russian speaking people only since the author provides the information only in Russian language. In terms of the sections of the website, it has the following parts, such as a logo of the website which is linked to the home page, navigation bar with dropdown style, search box in the navigation, links to the social websites below the navigation bar, body and footer. The body of the website consists of different

sections in which the variety of topics, titles of the articles are briefed. In the footer, there are four brief links where the broad topic of the articles is categorized and lead to the sub articles inside the links. Each page of the website has the same navigation and footer section, with nearly the same body section. Moreover, below the footer of the website there are some links lead to the “about”, “contacts” and etc. pages. The main content of the website is images and texts, no media such as video or music are published. In addition to these, there are some downloadable files in Portable Document Format where different statistical figures of work efficiency of Uzbekistan has in each month.