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Website Ideas

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Go to your favorite website (what you surf when you should be listening to your writing teacher).  Study it in terms of design.  Then, write a post of 250-300 words about the way that site operates.  Think through the design of the site.  What holds your interest?  How do you interact with it?  What colors, images, font choices, modes, etc. keep you coming back?  What makes it effective?

The website that I love the most is Netflix. Even though there are not a lot of words there, the shows are what makes it interesting. You get to watch all your favorite shows and movies that you have not seen in a while which is amazing. I literally feel like a kid again when I am able to watch H2O: Just Add Water which is about mermaids. I feel like there is not a care in the world, and I also feel at peace because I am not worrying about homework.

I interact with this website by constantly clicking through each section and seeing what has been released. Not only do I check for new releases, but also check to see if new episodes of my favorite shows have been released. That is the beauty of Netflix, you are constantly interacting with it, because you are constantly strolling through the website to see what new things have been added.

Weekly Write

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In a book I’m reading, the author provokes the reader’s interest by starting the paragraph out with “A shot rang out. A broad gate banged open. A pounding of horses’ hooves echoed around the track like a massive clap of thunder.” Reading is one of my favorite past times to do. Every time I get ready to buy a book, I look at the back, and I read the first sentence. Most of the time, looking at the back will cause me to buy the book. But, if the first sentence grabs my attention, I am running to the cash register. This is what happened with this book. I started on the series a couple of years ago, but I stopped reading it to read something else. When I came back to the series, I could not believe I had stopped. I reread the first book in about two days. Then, I went and bought the second one and loved it as well. I am now on the third book, and when I opened it and read the first sentence, I was hooked. I wanted to keep reading, but I knew I had more important things to do. First sentence attention grabbers really help readers want to keep reading the books.