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Monthly Review number 2

For this monthly review we are reviewing the one page websites that you can scroll up to down or side to side from the index page itself. The page i am doing for this review is called Transferwindow.info . This site shows you the information on transfers made within the allotted time. The sport that they cover is football, soccer here in Northern America. The site does not allow for any scrolling but instead uses graphics as its bases for movement.

The site starts out with a line from the top to the bottom, but in then center there is 10 leagues ( a league consists of x amount of teams that play each other for a trophy) that have lines going away and coming  to them. These lines represent a person/persons that are transferred. To the right is a box that has 2 numbers a red and a green number, meaning money lost(red) and money earned (green). Also, the green and red make an appearance inside the circle that covers the leagues money in and money out Then it list the top ten transfers in all the leagues. So these lines are going to the leagues that people are transferred to. Click on a league and it will highlight the lines that are going to and from the clicked league while un-highlighting the rest of the lines. Now click again and another circle will pop up with the teams inside that league. from there the box to the right does the same thing but this time i want you to click on a name, it will open a smaller box where you will see his name, how much the transfer was worth and the two teams involved in the transfer (team he played on till transfer then team after transfer). then the position, what the age was and the nationality of the player. now lets go back to the circle. its the same thing as before just with more options but this time you will see more lines leaving the teams to go to the others, as league to league trades are really not that much. but if you will see a bunch of name pop up to the right and the word free beside them, this means they are out on a loan, meaning the club gave them to a team for free for a trial period in which case the player returns to his original team and then goes from there.

Now that i have explained the basics of this site lets go into the details, I like it. it is very cool how it is spread out not to many distractions that are going on it is straight forward in what you need, and it has some pretty cool graphics, but it could have done somethings to make it more special. Instead of making a new circle appear out of nowhere follow the line down to that circle. Maybe they could have had a marquee going across streaming live events going on or transfer news so it could lead you, more interested and waste more time on there site. But all in all this site is very informative for the soccer crazed sports fanatic and it seems to kept up to date.