Brazos Church Pantry Website Analysis

This report gives insight into the many issues with the Brazos Church Pantry website that were found through the usability study. At the beginning of this study my colleagues and I sat down and looked at the website and found a few issues with the website just . Later on we conducted a usability test where we had several students from Texas A&M sit down and look at the website while answering open-ended questions and got their opinion of the website. We later collected the data from the test and came up with what we believed were the most important issues the website has and provided recommendations for it. First was the functional issue, such as, images on the home page, links not working and search tools. The images on the home page are not …show more content…
Again, the search bar is a great, easy way to navigate the website but it does not work. If these three areas worked properly the website would greatly display the organization and make it easy to navigate. The next issue many people had with the website was its appearance. As in the functional issues where images were not displayed the images that are shown are very few. The more image the website provides the more a person knows and is willing to help. Also, the coloring of the website was found to be very dull and boring making the students not really look at the website in much detail because it did not catch their eye. Along with color, font size was also a big issue, some students said that the text was hard to read because it was so small. The appearance of the website plays a big role in getting people interested in the website. The largest issue we saw with the website was the information presented was minimal. First, the list of churches that are involved in this organization was not provided although there is a link that is shown to lead you