Photo Slideshow - Revised

My photo slideshow takes viewers through a behind-the-scenes look at Tech Tonight, a student run television news segment that is broadcast on Virginia Tech's television station, VTTV. These pictures portray Cast A as they prepare and shoot the program.

Websites Gone Wrong: Mini Assignment

Hosanna 1, or what I think is the worst website ever.

Where to begin on critiquing this website...

I guess I'll just start with my style score. From 1 to 5, with 1 being really bad and 5 being really good, I give this site a 0 (or in other words, this site is really really bad!!).

Apparently this site sells Afghan Hounds, along with about 100 other things. It looks like just an ad site, but I'm really not sure. There is way too much animation in the background and no consistency with fonts, so it's very hard to read anything. There are also way too many colors.  There are also sections blinking at you in different colors, plus with the white font color and animated background, it is very hard on the eyes to read. If anything, this site could use a lot more white space to break up the text.

There is so much text crammed together that you can't even separate the sections. There is also way too much scrolling. If anything, those who run the site should separate it by category into many different sites that you can click on. Not only would this eliminate the scrolling, but it would also break up the text. I mean, where do you even begin reading this site? There is literally text everywhere.

This site is also apparently a religious site, but I have no idea how that fits in to buying dogs. There is just so much going on, it is very hard to tell the purpose of this site. I'm afraid to click around in case it's a scam because there are so many different messages being conveyed. They talk about selling the hounds, but then the religious portion of the page throws me off and I don't want to click on the links since everything is so random; I'm not sure where it will actually lead me.

It's hard to really trust this site. It's so poorly put together, you can't help but think it's a scam of some sort. I really have no idea what this site is about. After looking at it more, there are is also a link for music, and sections pertaining to the government and military. I'm really at a loss for words.

I guess the only good thing is that it doesn't have music or videos that play automatically.  Although I am quite surprised that it doesn't. I thought this website had everything!

This site is definitely going on my top 10 worst websites ever list.

In this podcast, I'm speaking with Dena-Marie Smith, who just returned from her trip to Israel. With all of the violence in the Middle East, I don't think I could take the risk of traveling over there and thought it would be interesting to get the point-of-view of someone who did visit to see if / what areas are safe for tourists. It's hard to really know what is going on in different parts of the Middle East with media outlets putting their own "spin" on stories. As a media consumer, I'm not sure if any areas in the Middle East are safe or if there are, in fact, places that tourists can visit with a very small risk of something bad happening.

Ms. Smith went with a church group who had visited before, so some group members already knew their way around. After speaking with her, it sounds like Israel is well secured by its army and there are certain parts of the country, such as holy sites, that are safe for tourists and citizens to visit.

Thank you to Dena-Marie Smith, who was thoughtful enough to help me with this project, and a special thanks to Josh Woodward for his song "A Song."