This is a paid review on The Green Adventures. The website was reviewed using FireFox running on Windows XP SP2, so if you are using other browsers, your experience might be different.

Introduction

What is The Green Adventures? Well, lets put it simple here. Did you ever visit one of those directory websites which either list multiple categories of interest all under one roof or some others that specialized in a particular cateogory?

If you do, then you already know the concept of The Green Adventures. But instead of all text links, The Green Adventures offers a more graphyical interface. Basically The Green Adventures covers an extensive list of sports related websites. From what I see on the website, currently it is only covering mostly on individual player websites and team sites for major sports events in USA, which we all knows include NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB. Hmm.. seems that personal preference of the webmaster plays an important part here.

However, TGA does have plans to include more categories of sports in the future. Some of the planned inclusion includes Tennis, Golf and car racing (F1 or NASCAR?). I think by including more categories of different genres, TGA can attract more users thus making the website more popular (potential more source of income? More on that later).

First Impression/Navigation

First time I see the website, I have a slightly confusion as to what the website is all about. Refer to the screenshot, you can see a man wearing an office suit performing a zen gesture. Hmm..interesting I would say.

Below the funny logo is the main section of the website. The description section has two navigation arrows on both left and right hand side. Navigation is sensible, you press left or right arrow to see the next featured sports related website. Under each description of the website, you can actually go to the said website by clicking on the “Launch Project”. Hmm..maybe “Go to site” would be more appropriate I would say because project sound too serious. Just my own opinion.

If you do not want to use the navigation arrow, you can actually go to a particular site by clicing on an image of the website itself. This is nice for user to navigate directly to the website of their choice. One thing TGA can do more is to have tooltip popup shown when mouse hover over the icons.

Colour scheme is simple and ease on the eyes. The website blend the three colours (blue/green/yellow) well and I dont know you but I feel abit relax by just seeing the webpage. Must be the logo I guess

Choice of website featured is limited. As of time of writing, only 17 websites are features. More websites sure can help to attract more users. One thing I find out is that not all websites come with text description, some only with images of the website which do not tell more about he website. Some improvement perhaps?

Conclusionn

What I Like

Nice colour scheme. Colours blended well. Site navigation is simple but user friendly.

What I Don’t Like

Too much space wasted on left and right of the page. Undescriptive logo. Limited choice of websites featured.