post one: google.com
Written by casey mcbeath
Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:32
one of the simplest home pages i have ever seen is also one of the most effective ones as well. Google is my favorite search engine and to ccount i have already used it 5 times today alone. With a white background and a centered type field and minimal buttons and options on the screen google.com is so simple to operate it is no wonder why it is the main search engine on the internet. then the spinoff site googlenews is set up with more on the layout obviously, wiht a news site feel woth colums and boxes separating headlines form each other. in google once you have searchd for something the results screen is set up into the navigation header at the top that allows the user to change their search at any time as well as jump to other sections of the google site. the rest of the page is set up into 3 columns the left side bar, the right side bar and the center main search results bar. This layout allows you to easily look at search results and allows advitisers to display ads in the page that don't get in the way of your searching but are visible. the headlines form the search results are easy to read and make for a quick scan of pages to see if it is in fact relevent to your needs. i think what makes google such a great layout is the simplicity in its design that allows almost veryone to use it with ease.
