Michael Verde                                                                                                           1/28/13

Mr. Mo                                                                                                Purpose of a website

            A websites purpose can be infinite as there are URLS. But key purposes to a website are for business and advertising. For example a website for a business will open up with maybe the company’s bright and attractive logo. It will have a sidebar and maybe a little blurb about the company. This getting to a purpose of a website is to advertise and project the creators vision of their establishment. A websites purpose can also talk about a person. It can be a fan page, a page of hatred towards them or it can be a biographic page made by them. Other pages exist to show the world certain media (i.e. Social, photography, recording and blogs). And even more pages exist to educate or help the public navigate the web, one of the most widely used websites in the world is Google. Google.com is a search engine that works by you typing in any key words and showing you urls that relate to the keyword. The purpose of a website is to be simple yet effective and eye popping and memorable. As an example we will use Google.com because it is the most widely used website in the world.

 As you can see it is simple. You open up the page and you immediately see the logo and right below that there is the search bar. The Google logo is pleasant to look at and it is easy to remember. This helps the website because you will remember the name and logo next time you need a search engine. Another key purpose is simplicity. As you can see the bar on top of the page can take you to Google images, maps, YouTube, news and Gmail etc. in just the click of the mouse all from the home page. Google’s creator have put all the key aspects into their website. Simplicity, pleasantry and memorability. This is why google.com is such a successful webpage.

The key aspects of a website really show effective when you see how successful a webpage is. A webpages purpose can be infinite whether it be an informational page a page to post and blog on or just for entertainment. Whatever the purpose for a website may be it must have some key aspects in order to be successful. Simplicity and pleasantry are must haves for a successful webpage. I can conclude that whatever a webpages purpose may be it must be eye popping and easy to use.