week 9 GDS

Topics: web interface,

web interface is the part of the browser where you view web pages on the internet. There are many types of user interfaces that are created which have different visual, audio and text information for the user using the program to see. Some types include touch user interface, graphical user interface, command line interface, voice user interface and text user interface. Web interface is designed to have a good system of navigation from the homepage and other pages on the website. Each site has its different approach some newer sites have newer and more creative navigational systems.

 Interface design is the layout of computers, machines, websites, phones and many other appliances. It is made so that the user has a good sense of navigation with what they are using.

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GuitarMasterPro.net used a very simple viral campaign to promote people to learn how to play guitar from there website. All they did was upload a video to the internet of a person playing the guitar really well and then at the end of the video it says he learned how to play guitar by going to there website. Its successful because the video has 45 million views and many of those viewers will be touched by this guitar player so they will want to learn to. They will first think about where this player learned how to play guitar and see the website and so on create more attraction to the website.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

There was a website that was created called the million dollar web page which lets viewers be able to buy a spot on the webpage that cost $1 per pixel. People quickly bought all one million pixels and the site would stay like that forever. This worked because people wanted to advertise on the site badly enough to pay the owner who ended up making a million very quickly.  

The website BlairWitch.com is a site that has very convincing information of real events that led up to the documentary in the movie. They had reports of missing people and other important videos to make it look like it really happened but in the end it was all made up. But none the less the movie made 240 million when there budget was only 25 million.

An idea for a campaign that hasn't been done yet is to promote shoes like the brand Vans which is a skateboarding shoe brand. We would have famous athletes wearing these shoes doing really awesome skateboarding moves, it has to look really cool. This would work because sports fans would see there favorite athletes wearing these shoes and want them too or they would just notice how good they were at what they were doing and so they would want to wear the same shoes and learn how to skateboard . This could be recorded and put on the internet on sites like youtube or even commercialized to get attention from more people.

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Aesthetics of the extreme site


A website that I found that uses aesthetics of the extreme is a energy drink site for the drink No Fear, called No Fear Extreme Energy .co.uk. Of course a site that advertises there energy drinks is going to have an “extreme” look to it. When you think of energy or high amounts of caffeine and sugar you think of things that are intense visually. The site uses the color black for the background and red and white as the text making the text stand out well. The top of the page shows a snowboarder in red and a dirt bike rider as well which goes well with the whole using energy drinks to perform in extreme sports. The website also uses a style of text that looks as if certain portions of the letters are missing or faded out giving it more detail . A lot of the white text has a heavy outline of red with uneven streaks of black running through it giving it that horror film dvd cover sort of look to it and adding a lot more detail to the page.  On the main page there’s a flashing advertisement image that flickers quickly to the next showing the main drink and a flashing skull with wings then saying  the words no fear afterwards, this fast flickering image adds more to the theme of the effects of energy drinks speeding up the heart rate making it match with the image, this is what I think. The whole page is an eyeful and is just very intense visually, I personally think it goes well with the type of product they are trying to sell as well.

http://www.drinknofear.co.uk/