Week 8 SPRING BREAK

This week was spring break and our only assignment was to finish the audit we started in class last thursday. I took a lot of time to get everything down on my audit from the Candy Lady site. Going through it I found myself getting very frustrated because so many links were repeating and the navigation was just so long and confusing. I finally finished and here is the last few lines on my audit. 

I found my key to be very important because I did have so  many repeating links and cross links that it would be very confusing if I didn't use a color system of some kind. 

I also had a few questions that I needed to answer about my site based from the audit I created. 

1. What content do you have?

The home page is simply just an introduction to The Candy Lady and how she got started. From there it goes in many different directions all linking to different (and sometimes the same) pages for types of candy. The other content that is on the site deals with publicity. She has facebook links and links to videos as well as articles about the shop.

2. How is the content organized?

Mostly the content is organized by type of candy. The biggest problem with the site is the repeating candy in different links. There are also many links that take you to the same page. This makes the links spread out in so many different sections making the main nav very large and hard to follow.

3. Who creates the content?

I am assuming that the content is created by the owner. All of the information is about the candy, the price and also the quantity of the product. Also in the publicity section they seem to be outside articles written about the Candy lady company and news videos doing the same type of stories. There is also a facebook link that content is sometimes created by the user in the form of comments. With the candy there are some pieces that I believe are not created in-house and then the information about that type of candy could possibly be out-sourced. The shopping cart is something else that I noticed is not created in-house. It was supplied by Mal's Ecommerce site.

4. Where does the content live within the technical infrastructure?

The majority of the site like I stated before is mostly the candy so they are all within sections of different types of candy. There are only a few external links that would take you to the facebook page, or to youtube. The shopping cart also is an external link powered by the Ecommerce site. 

Overall the site isn't too hard to find what you are looking for because it has such a vast main navigation. For some people though this could get confusing because of the repeating items in different links. The problem now becomes, if you found something once, how do you find it again?