Website Reviews

Knitpicks.com

Knitpicks.com is one of my favorite sites to buy yarn. It is easily navigable, and I can always find what I’m looking for quickly. The alternating web banners on the homepage entice and inspire knitters and crocheters with brilliant colors, high quality photographs, and relevant copy that invites the shopper to click deeper into the site. The copy and overall structure of the pages provide enough contrast so the shopper can easily click and browse without struggling to read. I consistently browse this site because of how easy it is to use and find what I might want to buy.

Eat24

Eat24 is my favorite way to order food delivery to my apartment when I’m completely occupied with work and school. The search bars to locate restaurants that deliver to your house are the most prominent thing on the page. There isn’t a lot of clutter on the site either, keeping the viewer focused on the matter at hand: locating food for the tummy. Throughout the ordering process, the menu is extremely easy to use, and the copy is short and to-the-point, providing a fast and easy experience. Although the website design isn’t “responsive,” their mobile app provides mobile users a fast and easy way to order food as well.

Knitta Please

Magda Sayeg, from Austin, TX, is one of my favorite artists. She designs and executes large-scale knit and crochet art installations, usually in very public places like downtown Austin, the Google building in NYC, or even Etsy’s headquarters. I’ve always loved the layout of her site. The simplicity of the layout provides a stark contrast to the vibrancy of the images of her installations, inviting the viewer to click through her gallery. Because of the lack of clutter, the navigation floating at the top right is easy to find, although not distracting to the images below it. Although her “Store” link doesn’t work, overall it’s a great website for an artist.

Texas State Culture Pics

I chose these three photos because I took them during my first few days at Texas State. Every morning, I parked in the commuter lot at Strahan Coliseum and walked through Sewell Park, J.C. Kellam, and up the hill to Old Main. I would get so excited about spotting wildlife, and I took pictures whenever I could. This is one of the key memories I’ll have when remembering my time at Texas State University.