Looking at the MTV site at www.mtv.co.uk, you can guess the audience, seeing as it talks about famous teens and teen-related things. It can also be for young adults who enjoy the charts and mainstream hip-hop and r'n'b.
It is a music-based channel, as are many other teen channels, but it focuses only on the charts. MTV also airs a variety of music-related TV shows starring artists, with some comedy shows they produce, such as Jackass (which isn't music-related at all).
From this, you can see that it's wise to host shows not just about one subject in order to attract a wider audience.
There is no information on a magazine anywhere on the site, but there probably is an official magazine to accompany the channel.
The screenshots relate to the next part about the layout and construction of the site itself...
The navigation labels are clear to read as you can see below, and hovering the mouse over them expands a drop-down box full of the sub-llinks to the related pages.
The following are pictures of the layout of the home page for mtv.co.uk:
As you can see to the left, the top of the page consists of small glimpses of the pages listed in the navigation bar. It shows the top 3 topics for each section and has accompanying thumbnails.
In the next picture, you can see that on the right side is a list of the top songs in the chart, with its own scroll bar. This is good for space-saving, so I may take this idea on-board when considering my site.
To the right is the downloads section where it shows thirteen of the most popular downloads to interest visitors and fans of these shows. If downloads can be available for my page, I may include them just for show. There's also an advert on the right of the page which cannot be displayed due to the surf control put in place, but I think ads are necessary, so I may make a few up to put on my site, because I don't think I will be able to display legitimate ads.
The next picture is of the very bottom of the page, consisting of a search box, a list of popular searches, a brief site map and some external links for visitors to expand the sites they visit. This is a common feature of almost every site out there, as it's helpful and it saves the user navigating all the way back to the top of the page in order to select a new page to view. There is a clear division of the links and the search information which is interesting.
Altogether, this site displays a lot of techniques to consider when going about making your own. I will look back on these images at a later date to get my final features for my site.
Now onto E4... (See next next post)
Good use of screenshots.
ReplyDeleteFind out if there is an official magazine - try not to use the word 'probably' as it implies you can't be bothered to find out.
Is navigation easy? Intuitive? Awkward? Confusing?
Does the page layout make it clear at a glance what's on each page or is there too much or too little text/info?
Nice to see you're getting some ideas for your own site from the research you're doing.
Why do you think people would use the navigation links at the bottom of the page? What does it offer in addition to or instead of the main menu navigation of the site?