Chapter 5
In Chapter 5 of Don’t Make Me Think Steve Krug talks about how websites need the simplest amount of text possible. When sites have a little too much text people get frustrated and feel like they have to read through it all because they think if it’s there it has to be important. And when there is way too much text on a website people just simply leave. So here is an example of a site that has too much text and then an edited version of what I think the site needs.
Riverside Art Center Text
click here to visit Riverside Art Center’s site
This site is very complicated not only because of all the unneccesary text but just the chaos of all the text choices, the imagery throughout the site, the layout, and the color choices. However, for now let’s focus on simplifying the text. The home page has such a great amount of text that you have to scroll down and down some more to try to get through it. Because there is so much to look at right on the home page people will automatically be frustrated. Most of this text can be put in the other pages of the site. All that is needed on the home page is simply the info explaining what Riverside Art Center is. To get to all the other info that was originally on the home page can be simply found by clicking on a tab.
home page original text
Shop at Riverside Art Center
2015 Annual Photo Show
Register your Kroger Awards card at krogercommunityrewards.com
Riverside will benefit from your Grocery Shopping.
Attention Amazon users
purchase your selections under Amazon Smile and a portion of your purchase total will be donated back to Riverside Art Center.
Go to https://smile.amazon.com/
to make your purchase count
Spring 2015 class schedule click here.
New gallery hours:
Wednesday through Friday, Noon to 4:00PM
Saturday 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Contact us at 419-738-2352 for information about additional hours.
Hang you artwork at Wapakoneta High School Performing Arts Center
If interested, contact Anna Fisher at 419-738-2129
Who is Riverside Art Center
Riverside Art Center, a 501c3 organization was founded to inspire creativity through the arts. Located in beautiful & historic downtown Wapakoneta, Ohio, Riverside Art Center is home to a variety of art classes and exhibits for all ages.
Check out our upcoming classes & events.
Memberships are Available. Click here for an application
Riverside Art Center proudly displays the Ohio Arts council logo!
The OAC has continuously been a large supporter of RAC – WE THANK YOU!
RAC cannot thank our contributors enough for their generosity and active participation that both non-members and members alike, provide the organization.
RAC is grateful for the support of Wapakoneta Area Specialty Shops (WASS)
Please patronize these generous supporters!
Riverside Art Center home page edited text
Riverside Art Center was founded to inspire creativity through the arts. Located in beautiful and historic downtown Wapakoneta, Ohio, Riverside Art Center is home to a variety of art classes and exhibits for all ages.
Chapter 6
Navigation is the focus of chapter 6. Good navigation means simply navigation that you do not have to think twice about. For example tabs are usually on the left-hand side of a site or on the top of the site and if a website went a different route than these 2 options the viewer would be very confused.
A website with good navigation is Amazon’s site. Click here to visit Amazon. There is a button that says shop by department which leads to several tabs that lead into more tabs with descriptions and this is done in the most organized way. If done any other way it would have been quite complicated to find what you are looking for. For this to be done there had to be a lot of organizing of products to be split into the different tabs. Also, the home page is easy to go back to at any point as the amazon logo is the button to go to the home page. There is also a title on each page you go to, for example there is the title “Movies & Tv” on the Movies and Tv page. As for the search bar it is very easy to use as you have the option to search something throughout all departments or you can pick a department to search from. Overall the navigation is very user-friendly.
