I never thought I would do this but here I am: writing a blog. ‘Why are you doing it then?’ you might ask. Well, the main reason is to create my own identity on the internet, which is one of the goals of the course “We Create Identity”, one of the courses of my study “Creative Technology”. To achieve that goal, I’ve set up this blog.
As a part of the assignment, I have reviewed an existing website, and I will post the results below:
The website I’m going to review is http://www.ctromp.nl
This website is the website of rowing club Cornelis Tromp, located in Hilversum. I’ve been a very active member of Tromp for the past four years, so that’s why I like to review their website.
I will now give five strong points and five weak points of the website:
Strong points
- The website contains a lot of information, everything you’d want to know about the fleet, rowing clothes, events, races, exams, agenda etc.
- The news page is always up to date and you can also subscribe so you receive email.
- You can sign up for membership online, and in the members section you can also sign up for local competitions.
- They have a very clear menu.
- The site has a nice look, except for one thing I will mention at the weak points.
- Some parts of the website al still under contruction, even though it has been online for a long time.
- The right bar makes the site look very unprofessional, with its ugly old fashion buttons.
- You must have a flash player installed to watch some movies.
- They don’t give enough information when you want to order lustrum articles, like when you will be able to pay and when your product will arrive etc.
- They don’t have a mobile version of their website.
And that was my review of http://www.ctromp.nl, I hope you enjoyed it! I will keep posting on the blog for the next couple of weeks, so keep checking my blog every now and then.
