Question 1: The main goals of Apple’s Website are to 1) flaunt their newest products and make it very easy to learn more and purchase what they are displaying and 2) provide a support page, where new or returning customers are able to receive assistance with their products and have any questions answered.\
Question 2A: Facebook is a social media website, similar to Twitter. It is a way to stay connected with friends, family, and sometimes complete strangers by reading people’s posts or viewing posted pictures. Facebook’s wall is sorted by newest posts, pictures, and advertisements.
Question 2B: All that is required when signing up for Facebook is an email address, first and last name, birthday and gender.
Question 3: Four archiutectural approaches to information structure are: Hierarchical, Organic, Sequential and Matrix.
Hierarchical – something like a family tree or a mind map
Organic – Wikipedia
Sequential – A book
Matrix – Amazon
Question 4: Huffington Post’s index page is all navigation and a few links to other content. I’d say 98% navigation. Google index page is content with no navigation, Wikipedia is all content, Etsy is the only page that is about 50/50, content/ navigation
Question 5: First, Landor.com is a very simple layout. They use minimum distractions to allow the user the easiest navigation through their website. To help the user understand what is important, bright colors are used to catch the eye.