Building a Website

Building a Website

1. Official Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team

   • Context: a website for the mercedes f1 team, featuring team news, opportunities to buy merchandise, and results. Has information on the team and their drivers.
     • Aesthetics: features the Mercedes colour theme of teal, silver, and black. Has the Mercedes logo features multiple times throughout the website.
       • Features: has a navigation bar at the top with dropdown menus. Has a search bar, and responsive elements (eg. headings or backgrounds that change colour when mouse hovers over)
         • User Experience: website has a cohesive colour scene and everything is easy to read. The interactive elements provide for an interesting user experience
           • General Pros/Cons
             • Pros: a great user experience with many interactive features and a colour scheme relevant to the topic. User can also create an account for the website.
             • Cons: Does not feature enough pages on George Russell. Some of the text is quite small and could be a bit larger to help with visibility.

2. BWT Alpine F1 Team

   • Context: a website for the Alpine f1 team with information about the drivers, team updates, career opportunities, and information for fans.
     • Aesthetic: has an Alpine colour scheme of pink and blue, with the team logo featured. Has many relevant images of the car, team, and drivers.
       • Features: Has a navigation bar and search bar. There is also a home button and links to external websites. Many elements that the user can interact with, like buttons changing colour.
         • User experience: a dark colour scheme is used throughout the website but the light contrasting text allows the user to read easily. The images are helpful to the user experience and there are many things to explore on the website.
           • General Pros/Cons
             • Pros: an interesting user experience due to the colours and images used, as well as the interactive elements. Website is minimalistic and doesn't overload the user with too much information.
             • Cons: some of the text is very hard to read, it is very small and just large chunks of information. The font used in the navigation bar is also quite condensed so difficult to read.