Stratford Public Library Teen Website

"The Lounge." Accessed March 23, 2007, from http://www.stratford.library.on.ca/teens/lounge.asp

Comments:
At first glance, this website looks appealing. The main page has nice colors if you ignore the red and blue amateur-looking boxes on the right of the screen. The main headings all are useful for teens, but the order of the headings seems pretty random.

The actual pages are simply lots of links to other web sites. It would be nice to see some more original content on the pages. Again, the order of links on the pages doesn't seem to have any sort of structure or purpose. The "Study Sites" page looked really helpful. It's broken down into subject, then into relevant web sites. The "Jobs" and "College?" links also contained some good information.

One thing that looked a bit outdated was the "Get Hip" section which directs you to the library catalogue. The phrasing is bad, let alone the fact that they're trying to say the library catalogue will make you hip! Most of the web site's pages haven't been updated since mid 2006, which could lead to broken links (though I didn't find any) and outdated information. This website would be great if they got rid of the boxes on the main page, added some original content, and rearranged the links on the pages to be in some sort of order.