Sunday, September 30, 2007

Web Journal #5: Military

U.S. Coast Guard


The U.S. Coast Guard site uses a simple three column CSS design but its not very well organized and a user can become quickly lost.

The homepage starts out fine-- open layout with plenty of whitespace, a simple navbar across the top and subnav along the righthand column-- but as soon as a you select a tab in the main menu, you're taken to a completely different site. If you select NEWS it will open a new page and the navbar changes. It's like they've taken several totally separate sites and dumped them into one "news" page, but not bothered to tell anyone that's what they've done.