Good and Bad websites

I actually found a website which has good website layout examples. Here is that website.

Mini USA - Good Website (By the way, if there is a white band on top, click remove frame or something like that)

It all starts when the loading starts. Instead of a boring old loading bar, they have a colorful bar with a random fact on the top. The actual page has one huge picture. In the picture there is some animated text and some navigation buttons. On top of the picture there are some drop down style menus. A good reason for doing this is because it makes your page so much clearer and cleaner. There is also a search bar to the right. On the bottom there is only one ad which is good instead of those pages with billions and some more navigation buttons. The color scheme is also a black background with white text. It's really clear to read and understand. Plus it's also kind of calm.

The one good thing I really like about this page is that it's so clean. You don't even have to scroll down, everything is just there, available in either the drop down menu, the navigation buttons or the search bar.

2 Column Example - Bad Website

This page has no excitement. Basically it's just text, text and more text. The reader would just get bored reading this, sure it would tell him what he wants, but only from one perspective. When you read, you get information from one perspective, when you have images or other forms of multimedia, you get another perspective, that's why text and multimedia go best together. There is also another issue with this, the colors might just be a little to over but when you actually read it, it's not convenient. You have to scroll down to read one column, scroll back up and the scroll back down to read the second column. The navigation is OK. Basically, it doesn't take you to another page, it just scrolls down for you.