Yahoo has changed dramatically over the years as has the web. If you look at the old yahoo website (i.e. 2000), you see there not much use of pictures or icons. It is mostly words linking you to other pages of the website. There are a few icons for you to click on up at the top. Also you seem to get navagation to there own website extensions.
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Today the look of the sight is much different. As you can see it has become much more picture heavy. There are links to send you to other websites such as facebook or twitter . They use icons to lead you to their own different pages as well as other sites.
Burnett and Marshall in “The look of the Web”, describe this as applets, referring to Apple Computer’s development of a new computer, the Macintosh, in 1984. This computer began the graphic user interface (GUI) which was a icon driven operating system. When you clicked on an icon (Applet),rather than typing a series of commands, it started a full screen version of the program. This is the architecture of the present day World Wide Web (WWW). (Burnett, Marshall, 82) You have a series of icons or links that when clicked bring you the the interlinked page. Its like a giant “Web” of pages that are or can be linked together to for one large site.
In the end I believe what they say is still true today. It is still an icon driven environment that is all interlinked in some way or another. Things have definetly become more graphically enhanced but in its core you still click the icon to get the “program” page. Also as I said before its not just links or icons to their own site anymore, there are also links to other sites such as you social networks i.e. facebook and Twitter as well as all of the advertisements they have up on the page. The internet is getting larger and even more intertwined with itself every moment.
Works Cited
"Web Theory": Burnett, Robert; Marshall, P. David. "Web Theory: An Introduction". 2003. Routledge
Hey Paul, sorry about the fn second picture, i could not get the freakin thing to work. the stupid print screen wouldnt let me paste it and email was sending it as a stupid silverlight thing so i couldnt download it ugh lets just say the picture freaking thing on blogger is the most retarded thing ever and i as you can see im a little peeved....sorry
ReplyDeleteNo problem with the pic. And I agree with you about the graphic overload but want to ask you about interactivity. Do you think Yahoo! is an interactive site (use B and M's definition).
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