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Monthly Review 4: Us vs. Them

For this final monthly review we were to choose a website that relates to our final project, and compare how much better it is than our project turned out. Our project, dubbed Kicks for Cause, is a charity foundation that takes gently used shoes and sells them at a reasonable rate. All of the proceeds go to a different charity that is rotated through each month. If we had more time, we would probably implement a fun contest sort of thing where, if you donate a certain amount of shoes, then KfC would give out rewards for cooperation.

The site I will be comparing to is toms.com, a well known charity organization.

Now, at first glance, I notice that the layout for our project actually turned out very similar to how toms is laid out. We unfortunately did not have enough time to do as much as toms, but with what we had we were on a pretty good track to an ok website. Both sites showed a very simple color palette, and navigation was also quite easy to use. Both sites also contained mostly images,with only bare minimum text to explain what is offered.

Time was against us for this project, but I feel like we could eventually have a website as visually pleasing and usable if we kept working on the KfC site.