Peer Reviews - Day 2

Julia

Argument: Astrology is disproved by science

Strength: Background/color setup is nice and fits subject ; pages appear to be easy to navigate

Improve: Looks like a lot of paraphrasing of a scientific article, is there other info that you can add that people not interesting in facts may want to read? Perhaps quick bullet points instead of paragraphs? Pictures?

Some headers are center-aligned, some are left-aligned

(Is the production meant to show a bias of why its harmful, to show both sides of the story, or to be un-biased entirely and just show introductory facts?) -- I didn't get a chance to read the whole thing, I'm not sure. Just make your point clear.

Olive

Argument: To show scenic/historical landmarks worth seeing in each state? To encourage travel

Strength: Very interesting, so much to look at!

Improve: Add border, maybe make California/Florida pictures not tilted -- I feel like Disney castles could be straight up (not angled) and would still be grand enough to take up the whole state and be recognizable, Give UP a different picture than Lower Michigan

Kim

Argument: For people to buy UP Unique Creation goods

Strength: well put together website

Improve: Like the links at the top of the page for navigation (strength), but with that, is the same necessary at the bottom of the page as well?

subheader "Local loves, now available to the public" could be worded better to be explicit

I think "about us" and "contact" tabs should be together, so the order of tabs reads "home, products, ordering, about us, contact" - seems to emphasize products and gives the tabs a better flow

Caitlin 

Argument: Politicians portray themselves in a specific physical manner as well as socially; body language/how presented is a subconscious of how we perceive people

Strength: Interesting insights, is non-biased to a political party. Like the "did you know..." under each subheader, very uniform. Organized

Improve: Where are these quotes from? Sources? (are they all from the same source?)
 Don't know the necessity of the "shoulds..."  are these your opinions?
hard to tell the difference between your opinions and the facts, break that up
why the circles around the faces?
flags need to be moved (also need to be made uniform size with each other)

Courtney

Argument: For people to take part in NaNoWriMo

Strength: For a writing activity, I love the use of whitespace/short sentences! The "incomplete-ness" has a certain appeal to it. Very nice mix of fonts,  typogoraphy is very well put together/appealing. Posters build on each other.

Improve: In the blue fonts, either use all lower-caps, or use proper capitalization, keep it uniform

Devin

Argument: To show how the truth behind how much money we spend on a dining hall meal compared to what we get for that money ; its better to eat off campus if you want to save money ; do we pay for convenience

Strength: nice comparative format, explains how to get the most of your food, survey was a beneficial addition, tumblr reaches  college-age demographic

Improve: for the pictures of food from tech, explain them like you did the culvers pics, don't know what that link is in your second posting ; don't know how tumblr works, but could you take off the timestamp on the posts?

Next

Argument: Create blog for sister?

Strength: Black is nice contrast from green, shows personality,

Improve: Change font, make side "about me" section wider or move to a different spot. What is the point of the blog? White title is hard to read

Also, the background is calming and relaxing, and so are the descriptions in the "about me", but the word "effervescence" is bubbly and exciting - don't know if those two descriptors match up with each other

Jane

Argument: we as a tech-savvy generation have a different mentality about ourselves/others/our relationships with others and we need to be aware of that when we interact with other generations

Strength: nice layout, nice background/text, text had enough time to read, good idea for a video, text movement was nice/moved movie along, easily relatable

Improve: Maybe add image to break up text towards end

Jana

Argument: for people to go to that landscaping service

Strength: love the handmade touches

Improve: "premier in lawn and garden care" text doesn't fit the organic flow of the image ; is there color in the grass? add color elsewhere for color advertisement or keep black and white for newspaper