Sean

My college website that I found is [|uri.edu], The first website that I used was the University of Rhode Island’s website uri.edu. When you first open up to this site you see a good amount of Javascript just like Spalding’s website. There’s different links you can scroll through that uses different images to access different parts of the site. But thing that impresses me most about the site, towards the bottom of the page you can choose from three sites including, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube to learn more about the University of Rhode Island. Using these three powerful sites the University of Rhode Island can have people becoming fans of the school on Facebook and Twitter and they can have people speaking good things about the school and what it has to bring to table as far as how good of a school it is. Youtube works well also because people can see videos of the basketball team, including a former Worcester Academy Alumni Jimmy Baron. This might allow people to want to play basketball at URI if they are good enough. If you go and visit Youtube, it will give you many videos about URI Basketball and Jimmy Baron. This definitely draws more people to URI because of its sports and how good their program is.

My product website is [|spalding.com], When you first reach the page Javascript automatically starts working on bringing you to an interactive page with different subjects about the product you can click on. A tactic Spalding uses on this home page is the fact that when it loads a picture of Robinson Cano comes up. He is the second basemen for the Yankees, which this is defiantly an advantage as far as marketing Spalding baseball gloves. If young baseball players see that Robinson Cano is using Spalding gloves then the may want to buy one too. Also, right away you see to the right of Robinson Cano two video media links that you can either watch a Spalding TV Commercial or you can watch video on “Spalding Rookie Gear.” If you click on any sport, on the next page is always some kind of interactive Javascript that you can play with. Something that is really convenient for consumers on this site is at the right side of Robinson Cano is the Spalding 2010 Baseball Catalog. They put it right out front of everybody on the very first page of the site. It is filled with prices for new gloves that Spalding is selling. At the bottom of each page of certain kinds of gloves there is usually a player from Major League Baseball there showing you that they wear that certain type of glove. Again this is also a tactic Spalding uses to attract buyers to buy there product. At the bottom of the page there is little interactive media icons you can click on that move around and allows you to access more parts of the site.

My wildcard website is [|getrightmusic.com]. This site allows you to download exclusive hip-hop/rap mixtapes. They use video media on the side of the site. The advertisements that they have for the site are geared towards the crowd of sixteen to about twenty-five. This includes many sneaker ads selling air-force ones and urban clothing, gearing most of the advertisements to the African-American community. There is also tons of video media on the right side of the website. Any new music videos that come out get posted on that side. But the thing that is most cool about this site is that at the bottom of the page there is a bar that allows you to sign into the getrightmusic website using either your Twitter or Facebook account. This will include posting links on different songs on Facebook and Twitter right from the website. This makes it easy and convenient doing so man things on just one website. On the right of the page there is a button you can click on to blog about anything on the site. It says "Feedback" this is really cool because you can hear what people have to say about the music thats posted on the site. If someone does not like a certain song by an artist, that person can say whatever they want about it.