A web site that I visit frequently is Transworld’s magazine site known as skateboarding.com. This site keeps up to date with all news pertaining to skateboarding from contests to bails and apparel. Although the site focuses around skateboarding news and media making it easy to find with large photos which are links or icons next to a brief summary. The photos tend to be vibrant or animated oriented which tends to catch one’s attention right off the bat.
Specific links are the first thing show at the upper top of the screen allowing easy access to other pages giving everything that would pertain to that general area. The page itself also does this but it uses space randomly assorted on the page with icons or gif’s giving a reader a sneak peak of new content in a category. This page, I believe, is a oberservational site because it is based on the observations of skateboarding in all aspects. The conventions that apply connect with the viewer through simplicity, mainly through visuals. Although this site might not appeal to those who do not like skateboarding, but if the viewer is open-minded with the subject then the site will grasp the viewer. In today's modern society every thing is technological, we hardly do anything with out computers, and this is also true when it comes to writing. Blogs are one of the newer forms of writing although they are imfamously popular as they are a way for a person to express one's feelings or thoughts about any subject. Blogs differ to traditional based writing mainly because of the use of technology. No longer is there a need for rough drafts because of programs like spell checker, allowing writers to basically free write with out error. Blogs often also incoorperate the writer's views and opinions in a way that it is an "at the moment" writting while traditional writing is usually planned out and drafted. All in all writing is writing, it is a way to express one's self or to document something important.
