Palma+CMSC+Redesign

Andrew Palma

[|Replica] [|Redesign]

I actually like most of the current website, but there are a few things that could be improved. For starters, the gray lettering of the date at the top of the page does not contrast enough with the black background it is in front of. Secondly, while the links are a nice color (for normal and hover), the visited color is the same as normal. This forces the user to recall which links they visited instead of being able to tell by the link’s color. Next, the links in the navigation bar are hard to distinguish from one another. The website tries to answer this with blue separators between each link, but, I do not believe this to be adequate.

 The solutions to the above problems are fairly simple. For the lack of contrast on the date, I simply changed the color to white instead of dark gray. Now, it has enough contrast to stand out and not overshadow the college’s name. For the visited link color, I changed the visited color from the normal color to a dark gray. This way, the user can quickly identify visited links just by looking at its color. (Note: Since the links link back to the redesigned page, every link appears gray.)