Gracjan

Website 1: [] My wild card website is the Six Flags website. Once the page loads the first thing that grabs your attention is the automatic rotation of JavaScript pictures. As you refresh the page none of the media changes on the page, instead it just stays the same. The JavaScript photos are in an automatic rotation when the page loads therefore it is not an example of Ajax. An interesting thing on this website is that there are links to social media networks found directly on the bottom of the page. These networks are Facebook and Twitter. When you click on the Facebook link you are transferred to the Six Flags Facebook page. When you are on the Six Flags Facebook page one of the first things you realize is a huge poll about the best Six Flags ride in the nation. The next thing you realize is the 379,083 fans Six Flags has. They must be doing something right if that many people like what they offer the world. On the wall of the fan group you can find videos and pictures of past and present Six Flags locations and thrills. Also from the Six Flags Facebook page you are able to interact by buying tickets, voting for your favorite Six Flags rollercoaster thrill, and joining a program created by Six Flags. When you visit the Six Flags Twitter page you notice that it is updated multiple times daily. You also notice that there are over 13,000 followers. Back on the home page Six Flags is trying to get people to buy tickets in many ways. First of all the rides are a great way to draw people in. People want a thrill and the rollercoaster rides do just that. Six Flags also offers a 2010 Season Pass as a Christmas gift for the lowest price of the year. A few of the parks are open through late November and early January. During this time there will an opportunity for people to enjoy holiday shows, see Santa Claus, go sledding, and listen to carolers. If you buy tickets on the website rather than buying them at the gate you can save money. All of these examples on the site are used to get people to spend their money and go to Six Flags. On the home page you are able to choose your own park and I chose the Six Flags in Springfield, MA. From here you are able to view the park’s schedule, upcoming events, and descriptions of all the rides located in the park. That includes the water park rides and the regular park rides. You can also view the food that is served in the park if you ever get hungry. Six Flags puts everything you need to know on their site so that you won’t have to go to another source of information to learn what you need to know about the park.

Website 2: [] The business website I chose is the Xbox homepage. On he Xbox homepage there are a few JavaScript pictures present. One of them, which is the biggest photo out of them all, is an ad for Forza Motorsport 3. It has a review posted right on the picture that says “The best racing game of this generation”- IGN. This is used to jump out at people and get them to think that if IGN likes the game then maybe I will like it as well. Some of the other pictures are links. One of them goes to go to all the games that the Xbox 360 has to offer. It shows upcoming games, games news, videos, and an Xbox Live marketplace. Another link goes to the Xbox live page of the site. Here you are at the marketplace and can view videos of all sorts of music videos, movies, TV shows, and game videos. From this page you can view your avatar and more games. The third link displays the community. Here you can view things such as Xbox 360 news. It shows new updates coming soon for Xbox live. One of these is the addition of social media networks to Xbox Live: Facebook and Twitter. After visiting the Facebook Xbox360 website I found out that there are almost 10,000 fans. Although links are not present to these social media networks on the website they will soon be available on the console. As you play on your console and you beat a game or a certain part of a game and get an achievement for it you can post your results straight onto either of the social media networks. You can tweet and update your status without ever leaving the TV screen. This feature makes the TV more social and unites over three hundred million people. On each of these pages there is an ad for Netflix, which is available on the Xbox console as well. With the Netflix feature you can download movies, TV shows, and music videos straight onto your Xbox console and then enjoy the content. This allows you to do things in one certain space and not having to go on a computer to order movies and other media from Netflix. Back on the homepage there is also an ad of an Xbox 360 elite that says it is 100 dollars off. In the directory on the top of the page there is an area for people to interact by clicking on the blog tab. Another place where people can interact on the site is the customer service page. The links and pictures promote people to buy the products to enjoy as their own home entertainment.

Website 3: [] The school website I decided to use is the University of Memphis website. An interesting thing about this website is that when you refresh the page the information on the top changes. It seems like the school wanted people to have a new sense about the school every time they visited the site. On the bottom of the page you can easily find links to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The Facebook page only displays things happening on campus. The YouTube link has videos related to the University of Memphis such as news events and projects. There are over a hundred videos about the university, its programs, and student made videos on the YouTube website. On the Twitter page you can follow the school and stay up to date with all the things going on at the school. Back on the homepage there are many pictures and a few videos to help the person visiting the site learn more about the school. There is a group of photos in the News and Features sections. Here you and learn about certain scholarships, speeches, and H1N1 updates at the school. There are videos of interviews with students and why they decided to join the school community. On the slide of pictures you can schedule a tour of the school, view degrees, financial aid, scholarships offered by the school. There is also a link on the page where you can apply to the school. It turns out to be a long process but in the end you end up learning a lot about the school and whether or not the school is right for you. As you go deeper into the site through the directory toolbar you can make different conclusions. For example, the athletics page for the Memphis Tigers has the same amount of media on it as on the Memphis University homepage. Also you can interact by buying Memphis tiger fan gear, buying tickets to games, joining the Facebook fan group, and following the Tigers on Twitter. Another conclusion that can be made is that there are a lot more people on the athletics Facebook page than on the regular Memphis Facebook page. The regular Memphis page has 6,618 fans and the Memphis Tigers athletic Facebook page has 15,211 fans. That is a tremendous difference. This shows that the world knows the university better for its sports than for its educational values.