You are an intern at a company that employs students in your program (you may choose the company’s particular focus). The company is relatively new, and it is trying to grow its market share. As part of that work, the owner wants to create a website. They have asked you to review two websites representing companies who manufacture similar products or offer a similar service. The owner has given you a list of questions to guide your work, which appear later in this memo.
Task
Using the questions below, create a 750 – 1000-word report analyzing two websites made by companies that produce a product of your choice. The report should be in memo format. Your report must include a reference list, which isn’t included in the word count given above. Please use APA format.
This report’s audience is the company’s owner. While the owners has several years of experiences working in this field, they have no experience creating websites. You can assume they are a regular users of the Web, but they have not looked at the websites you will review.
Questions the Report Should Answer
You will need to answer these questions for each website. You can also add others if you feel they are appropriate for the websites you choose.
• What is the website’s purpose or purposes? Point to specific parts of the website to support your claim.
• Who seems to be the website’s primary audience? Point to specific parts of the website to support your claim.
• What is the website’s overall design (i.e. the different pages in it)? What role does that structure seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What information does the website seem to emphasize? How does that emphasis support the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What navigation tools are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What extra features does the website contain (see p. 180 – 182 in the textbook)? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What elements are used to make the website more accessible? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• How are individual pages on the website laid out? What similarities and/or differences do you see across pages? What role does each page’s structure seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What background elements are contained on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or needs of the primary audience?
• What colors are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What graphics, images, and other multimedia elements are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What fonts are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What links are used? Where are they positioned? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
You are an intern at a company that employs students in your program (you may choose the company’s particular focus). The company is relatively new, and it is trying to grow its market share. As part of that work, the owner wants to create a website. They have asked you to review two websites representing companies who manufacture similar products or offer a similar service. The owner has given you a list of questions to guide your work, which appear later in this memo.
Task
Using the questions below, create a 750 – 1000-word report analyzing two websites made by companies that produce a product of your choice. The report should be in memo format. Your report must include a reference list, which isn’t included in the word count given above. Please use APA format.
This report’s audience is the company’s owner. While the owners has several years of experiences working in this field, they have no experience creating websites. You can assume they are a regular users of the Web, but they have not looked at the websites you will review.
Questions the Report Should Answer
You will need to answer these questions for each website. You can also add others if you feel they are appropriate for the websites you choose.
• What is the website’s purpose or purposes? Point to specific parts of the website to support your claim.
• Who seems to be the website’s primary audience? Point to specific parts of the website to support your claim.
• What is the website’s overall design (i.e. the different pages in it)? What role does that structure seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What information does the website seem to emphasize? How does that emphasis support the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What navigation tools are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What extra features does the website contain (see p. 180 – 182 in the textbook)? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What elements are used to make the website more accessible? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• How are individual pages on the website laid out? What similarities and/or differences do you see across pages? What role does each page’s structure seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What background elements are contained on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or needs of the primary audience?
• What colors are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What graphics, images, and other multimedia elements are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What fonts are used on the website? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?
• What links are used? Where are they positioned? What role do they seem to play in meeting the website’s purpose(s) and/or the needs of the primary audience?