Zack Pryslak's Blog

  I believe that my examples of a good/bad website match the guidelines very well. My example of a bad website was Craigslist and the first example of this website not being good was the visual design of it where there was no pictures or even neatness to it. Like one of the websites said your brand is your image so you want to make sure that customers see something and it reminds them of your business. When you go on Craigslist everything is just a bunch of blue hyperlinks on a white background. There is also no live chat for Craigslist, it just brings you to more hyperlinks to click through if you need help.  Even after going through a branding change Angi still had a very good website that was even easy to navigate through and it actually looked good visually. The website, What makes a good website, it states that your brand color should be on the website so people can remember it and most of the color on theirs is the new Angi red that they have. Angi also has a good load time for h

 The internet is full of important tools that the average person can use on their own all the time, it is critical that in today's world that people have to be able to use them effectively. There is a wide range of tools like this that perform many different tasks that can help a person gain more knowledge or help provide more knowledge to others. The first set of tools is for documenting and archiving learning which would be tools like social bookmarking and delicious. Being able to save websites that you can go back to and even highlighting the important information that you need is very beneficial for research. The other set of tools is for connecting and collaborating which is great to be able to find out information about a certain topic that you have. Blogs and podcasts are a great way to gather more information from other people that you can choose to listen to. There are also tools for social networking that could help you get a feel for how people connect, interact, and co

  Wiki News is an easy to use news site that allows registered people to post articles about anything that is going on in the world. It is supposed to be a neutral news site even though it has faced some backlash about it not being very neutral. Besides that Wiki News can be a good site to use to see different viewpoints about anything that is happening around the world. You are able to read articles about places that you may have never been too so it can be interesting learning what it is like in a different area. The random article feature is pretty cool as it will give you anykind of article that has been posted on their website, so if you do not know what you want to read about you can just click that link and read about something you may have never thought of.  Since I am a criminal justice major with a concentration in Homeland Security this site can be important to my field. We can be able to look at this site and make sure that there is no kind of threats being made through art