Website Analysis                            

  Tintin Website URL: http://members.xoom.com/marlinspike

For this website analysis, I have chosen to do an interest site of the comic character, Tintin.

  This is a one of the many websites that is dedicated to the Tintin fans around the world, which I found it to be particularly well done. This web page actually consolidated all the information on Tintin found on different web sites, and put it all together. The language used, is also simple and friendly.

  In this web page, there is a very creative use of colour. The web writer uses a bright green background with blue headings, and black colour for text, which gives it a nice contrast. Colourful pictures of the different characters are also inserted next to the short write-up of each character. This allows readers who have no prior knowledge of the comic, to identify with the characters, by looking at the picture next to each write-up. 

  I do also want to point out that this is a very “international site” in the aspect that it can be converted into different language such as Malay, German, French. At the click of the mouse over the flags of different countries, the language of the content can be changed. This is one of the rare sites where the web writer takes into account that his audience has different need. Thus, by enabling instantaneous translation, it increases the readership of the page.

  The scrolling of the page is rather long. However, the web writer makes it up using bookmarks, which allows the reader to navigate from one section to another section of the page.

  Overall, this is a well done site.

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