Textual Analysis

Handmade Charlotte is a website, which offers a daily dose of DIY projects, crafts, recipes, inspiring family spaces, and design inspiration to help families create unforgettable moments.

This is the home page of Handmade Charlotte.

The title is colourful and attractive.  It make use of rectangular shape with different colour such as red, blue, green and grey. The mix and match of the words like lego.  When putting the words together, it can show the feeling of DIY and handmade product.  People will have interests to look through the page and stay longer.

Besides, the navigation bar is clear and easy to follow.  It divides into five categories include DIY project, food, hoilday, interiors and finds.  Audience may not lost in the website and use the website conveniently. 

This is the DIY page.

When you click the button of DIY project, it will bring you to the above page.  You can noticed that the posts are posted by date order.  The top post is the latest post and the bottom one is the older post.  It is useful for audience to updated their news and post.  Also, when you stroll down the page, you can see another column on the right.  It is about the popular post.  When the audience see something interesting, they can click to the link intermediately.

However, once you click to the post, it will not open in a new window.  It makes inconvenience to the audience who want to look more than a post in the website.  They need to click backward in order to  see another post.  If they want to open in a new window, they need to do one more step, that is right click, then click open in new window.  This may make audience unwilling to stalk the website again.

Furthermore, the images in each page are useful and give a clear direction for the audience to follow.  The images can attract the audience and more willing to follow the steps to make the product.  Therefore, images is important for making a website.  

Page that teaching people DIY Magical Walnut Creatures

Page that teaching people DIY Magical Walnut Creatures

For example, based on the above images that is teaching a DIY Magical Walnut Creature.  You can noticed that the website shows l lot of images related to the final product and those material, it is comfortable for the audience to understand more about the steps and product.

The share button and comment section

In addition, at the end of each post, it has different button for people like and share the page such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.  Also, there is a concern for people to leave comment about the product or ask question.  It can increase the interactivity between the audience and the writer.  Some of them can share their favorite product through Facebook or Twitter to let more people click to the site and raise the page viewer.  Moreover, the comments below can enhance the relationship between blogger and audience.  If one of them leave a message, others can reply it and give some opinion and suggest as to improve the quality of the product or about the new DIY idea.  It builds a strong linkage for the audience, they may visit the website time by time.  Therefore, a comment section and share button are essential for a website.