Evaluating Websites

Well it is day 3 of d10, and for a quick summary of yesterday afternoon's task, we were given 4 websites to evaluate with the following questions -
1. How easy is it to use?
2. What audience is it made for?
3. Is it a commercial/educational/entertainment product?
4. Is it obvious how to use it, even before you click?
5. Can you tell how it was made?
6. What clues are there?
7. Does it contain mostly image/text/sound?
8. Are you satisfied with the way it works?

We evaluated the following websites -
http://www.billyharveymusic.com
I thought this was quite a good music site, with some interesting navigation, once we had worked it out. It is quite an interactive experience for the user with different animated photos to click on.
http://demo.fb.se/e/if/badluck
This was an advertising/education demo for an insurance company. It was quite simple to use, mainly for homeowners to learn about health and safety.
http://www.ownyourc.com
This was an anti-smoking site for teenagers in Colarado. It mainly had a community feel with lots of colours and animation for young people to explore, which was good. However, one criticism which came out in the session that it was perhaps too subversive in what it was really about, and takes awhile to discover the anti-smoking theme.
http://www.flymetothemoon.es
This is a site for a design agency, with a flash animation which guides the user to a few descriptions of what the agency does, but omits to give their portfolio, which I think is a mistake as that is what you want to see from a design agency.

This was an interesting exercise and got me thinking about what programs were used to make the sites.