I love to play piano and I have recently been visiting http://www.spiremusic.org/ to download sheet music for next to nothing. It’s a site that I’m familiar with and I find it very user friendly.
Below the logo and company name in the top left corner, the nonprofit status is listed. This is one of the first things a site visitor would notice. The categories at the top are primly placed above the art so they can be easily noticed and utilized by the reader. The thing I love most about this site is the dominant art which is both interactive and user friendly.
At the bottom of the page are three square-ish boxes: a performance calendar, newsletter sign up and “Find us on Facebook.” As a site user, these three squares are a letdown. The squares are SO boring! The problem could be remedied by something as small as spacing them differently. Another option is to make them into links and place them at the top of the page with the others, lessening the clutter at the bottom of the page and focusing more on the art.
Apart from the boring squares at the bottom, the background is pretty boring and could be more visually interesting without being distracting. The logo (the cartooned treble clef in the top left corner) could be better utilized by making it slightly more prominent.
Overall, the site is extremely user friendly and visually interesting. There are a few things that ought to be changed to better the visual aspect of the site. The art in the middle of the page is dominant and eye catching as well as user friendly and visually interesting.
My editing mistake for the week was, again, found at my work. We have an in-house phone directory (just one sheet of paper) that is poorly formatted. It's scattered and hard to read. Also, area codes exist only on some of the numbers, on others it is assumed that they are (801) area codes.
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