I chose to critique the website of legendary National
Geographic photographer, Lincoln’s own, Joel Sartore.
Joel
was an obvious choice for me because I had the good fortune of meeting him a
little over a week ago during a trip to Nebraska where I was observing the
migration of the sandhill crane.
It
was quite the experience to talk to Joel and see him home operation so I rushed
to my iPhone and loaded his website up in Safari as soon as we left his house.
I hadn’t visited his site in a little while and I was surprised to find out
that there wasn’t any new content yet, and noticed that the copyright on the
site was still 2011. Then again, Joel is probably one of the busiest people on
Earth.
The
site is extremely easy to navigate and well put together. Back when we were
first using Dreamweaver I used his idea of putting the Telephone (I used P for
phone instead) and Email links at the bottom right on the page. I liked that he
had a search bar, I think that is something that would be very handy for
someone like Joel that has a huge amount of photos on their site.
I
liked that the navigation link to the videos directed you to a page with video
thumbnails. It was nice that it didn’t force you to leave to site and take you
to either Vimeo or YouTube.
The
site is really good as a whole; really easy to use and packed full of amazing
photos. There are some elements that I wouldn’t necessarily want for my own
site. I think the navigation for the photos works great for his site because of
the amount of content he had online, but it probably wouldn’t work for a site
like mine.
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