3-D Ads 9/16/09

I found this billboard ad online because it reminded me of seeing 3-D billboards in my hometown. The one in my hometown is for an art center but the whole billboard looks like an easel and has a pallet and paintbrush extruding out of it. It seems that a lot more modern billboard ads tend to try to be in a 3-D form. I'm not exactly sure what this advertisement is trying to convey that perhaps it could be a lighter type of snack or that birds tend to love it also? I'm not sure but it is very eye catching because of the third dimension. As consumers we have almost seen it all as far as advertisements go. We've seen eye popping and catching commercials or ads that can say something raunchy to get our attention or that are just visually stimulating.

The new generation of 3-D billboards is what companies need to do to catch the consumers attention because it is simply more interesting than a plain billboard talking about a chocolate company.

Myspace 9/14/09

What can you say about myspace? Well for starts its an ugly website. Its not set up bad or anything, its just overcrowded and that is an understatement. The lay out and use of different shades of blue I actually like. I hate the huge banners in the main page. I feel they take up too much bandwith and are usually pointless. With the exception of all the ads myspace is an easy website to navigate through.

I feel if they put less of an emphasis on the size of the ads and the amount of them then this website would attract more visitors than it already does. I don't like to go to myspace anymore because I don't feel like taking the risk of accidentally clicking on an ad and it probably shutting my computer down. If they would have stayed more basic like they were in the beginning i'm not sure facebook would have caught on as well as it did. In summary, lose the ads.

Best Buy 9/11/09

The Best Buy website isn't a particular favorite website in my book. The design of it tries to be simplistic but it has a lot going on. I dislike sites that make it so you need to scroll down in the first place. I realize they are showing their "deals of the week" large enough to capture buyers but if you scroll down they also have more deals that you don't even see when you open the website. I feel like that is poor planning seeing as how people go to their website for specific needs and not "how am I going to spend money on electronics?"

If I were to redo their website I would keep the same theme with the deals of the week and what not but I'd try to fit them all in the main screen when you open the website. I would also try to update the Best Buy logo. I'm fairly certain its been the same since the stores opened. It just needs to looke more modern. I don't feel it fits with their website anymore. I'm not saying get rid of the price tag but, it looks flat compared to everything else on the website. Overall it is a very nice website that flows well together. I may have a few pet peeves with it but I feel it is a well done site.