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	Coca Cola N C Wyeth Reproduction Metal Sign Old Sailor and Girl Other $12.00 Bids: 0 End time: 12-Feb-12 18:31:01 PST
	12 Reproductions by painter Andrew Wyeth! Antiquarian & Collectible $200.00 End time: 25-Feb-12 11:55:52 PST

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Assignment One: Website Analysis

Website Review: AndrewWyeth.com

Andrew Wyeth was undisputedly one of the great artists of his time. The son of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth was based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and based much of his calling on the surroundings of that area. I chose to analyze his website because I live near Chadds Ford, have seen his labour in person, and because he recently passed away, consequently bringing new importance to his work and his website.

According to the homepage, the basic purpose of AndrewWyeth.com is “for writing the artist’s catalogue raisonné and handling all permissions for materialization reproduction” (AndrewWyeth.com). There is a prominently displayed splash on the homepage of one of his latest watercolor paintings, Keep, completed in 2008. On the site’s ever-present menu bar there are links to images, exhibit locations, and various publications about Wyeth himself and his art. The all-inclusive tone of the website is that of quietness and simplicity, which mirrors the tone of many of Wyeth’s works.

Though AndrewWyeth.com is a very simple website, it is well designed whole and has a consistent design that ties all of the pages together nicely.

The main colors of the site, black, gray, and moss na may not be the most appealing or exciting colors for a website, but they are the hues that can be found in many of Wyeth’s pieces, so they work in this case. When one enters the images gallery the color sketch changes to a nicely contrasted black and gray. I am not entirely sure why this is, but it may be to emphasize the images and make them seem more weighty.

The overall design of the site is simple and symmetric, with clean lines throughout. There is a main banner across the top of the page displaying the name of the artist and a unadorned menu bar along the bottom, with abundant space in between. The menu bar is the only obvious source of navigation on the site, but it works well enough. The only time when it proves questionable is in the images gallery, where one has to click on a painting link to bring back all of the menu bar selections. It would also be nice if the menu bar could swing, especially on the pages where the scrolling is seemingly endless. Overall, the site navigation is easy to figure out, but could be more in conformance. The main ‘Andrew Wyeth’ header at the top of the page usually takes one back to the main page, but not on every number (this flaw was present in both Safari and Firefox).

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