Picturing Texts on the Web

I chose the website www.marines.com, because it was created by the government, which means that they had some very good people designing the site, plus a couple of other different reasons. In terms of balance, I do believe that this website has it. It has a great balance of color for one, with all the colors integrating and creating a nice pattern while doing it. It does offer comparisons on the website also, while they aren't directly wrote. The headings on some of the images, as well as the opening video, give the note that joining the Marines will make you a better person overall, like the 2nd to last picture that has a title "A Better Life." It also has great classification with it too. All of the topics on the website have sub-topics that relate to it, and each one can be explained by clicking on it. It also has great picture descriptions on the site as well. The pictures allow for a lot of things to be said in such a small space, and it also can leave them open ended so that you can get any answer or depiction out of them that you were looking for. There is also great emphasis on the middle text in the page, "Explore the Marine Corps Story," which means that they obviously want you to click on it and explore the story. I also believe that all of the pictures on the website represent a metaphor of some kind. Especially the fourth picture on the bottom, which is of a Hum-V driving fast with the description, "Essential to our Freedom." The act of the Marines in the picture is the metaphor that what they are doing is essential to our freedom. Overall it was a pretty well designed website that hit all of the topics in the Picturing Texts article, and could appeal to all different sorts of people, with all different sorts of answers to their questions.