Critical Analysis: Tribute Limited Website Usability and Accessibility

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Tribute Limited website, a music production company based in the UK, focusing on its usability and accessibility. The report identifies the technologies used, specifically HTML and CSS, and justifies their selection for website structure and design. It evaluates the website's navigation, design responsiveness, and content clarity, highlighting areas of strength and weakness. The report suggests enhancements such as implementing a JavaScript-based image slider on the homepage, integrating a search element for improved information retrieval, and providing additional artist information on the portfolio page. The conclusion emphasizes that while the website meets basic usability requirements, these suggested improvements would significantly enhance functionality, appearance, and overall user experience.

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Introduction
This report focuses on the analysis of Tribute limited website which is the largest music production
company based in United Kingdom. The report looks at the technologies used to create this website
explaining why these technologies were used over the others. In this report also, an analysis on the
website’s usability and accessibility is done by evaluating various usability features of this website as
well as recommending any changes if need be. Finally, the report highlights some of the improvements
that could be done in order to improve the quality as well as the usability of Tribute Limited Website.
Technologies used
Tribute Limited website is an informational website created using html and css technologies. The use of
html for this website provide a proper formatting of the website’s texts as well as the images (Ericae,
2018). It is the html code that tells the browser how to display the websites as well as where to place
the websites objects such as images and texts (Answers, 2018). Based on this aspect, it is therefore
evident that html provides the structure of the website while the cascading style sheet (CSS) gives this
structure a look and feel aspect (Rebuildingtheweb, 2018) hence the choice to use these technologies to
create tribute website as shown below.
Usability and Accessibility
Website usability is the ability of users to understand the website and transverse across it. There are
many usability features that are very critical for the success of any website (Insivia, 2018). These
features include the ease of navigation, the design of the website and the content contained in the
website (Idler, 2018). These features are of great importance since they define what the website is all
about and how easy it is to use it.

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In order to understand the usability and accessibility of Tribute Limited Website, a thorough evaluation
of this website is carried out by analyzing various usability and accessibility elements. The evaluation of
this website was carried out based on these elements as discussed below.
Ease of navigation
There are four navigation tabs which lead to the following pages respectively: Home, Find us, Portfolio
and Contact. Users are able to navigate through these pages using the navigation bar easily (Nielsen,
2012). The navigation bar is present in all pages and therefore it is easy to go back to the previous page
by just clicking the right navigation tab on the website. The two side bar which include Music News and
Top Songs UK provide links to external resources that can be important to the users.
Design
This website design is responsive to any platform and this makes it accessible across any device which
include laptops, smart phone and tablets. There is also consistency in the design and each element is
replicated in each web page at the same position (wiseGEEK, 2018). This makes it possible for users to
understand as well as memorize different functionalities and elements of this website hence making it
easy to use. However, in order to make the design more attractive, all the elements should be placed on
one container so that they don’t appear to be separate as shown below.
Content
The content of the website is the information represented in the website. Considering that the Tribute
Limited website is meant for the music production company, it therefore should contain information
related to music industry as it is the case now (Spritzweb, 2018). The content of this website is therefore

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clear and precise and it is easy for the user to understand what this website is all about. The content of
this website is well structured and organized and every page is straight to the point and keeps the music
concept. All this enables easy learnability and use of the website as well as easy access to the website
information.
Further Enhancements
Based on the current structure of the Tribute Limited website, there are various features that could be
integrated into it in order to make it more attractive as well as easy to use. Such enhancements include:
Use of a slider on the Home page
The current home page for this website contain a static picture showing musical contents as shown
below.
This can be improved by creating an image slider running across the home page. This can be done by
using JavaScript technology (Bhujbal, 2018). The slider will improve the look and feel of the website and
also help the company show more of its dynamic musical contents than just having a single image that is
static (Abramson, 2013). The slider will therefore enable the company to build their brand and talk more
about themselves with less texts.
Integration of Search Element
The search element makes it easier to search for any information in the website instead of spending
time scrolling up and down. Apart from improving the website design, this feature provides easy
usability of the website by making it easy to access certain information easily.

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Additional information about Artists
Other than having the names of the artists at the portfolio webpage of this website, more information
about these artists should be provided. This can be done by either adding more information on the artist
images or creating links that navigate to the web pages that provide more details about the respective
artists. This will provide the users with an opportunity to learn more about these artists since they
already know they names. Artist’s information will improve the content of Tribute Limited Website and
will keep its users updated about their favorite artists hence making the website more relevant.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is clear that even though this website meets some of the basic requirements for website
usability and accessibility, there are many other things that need to be done in order to improve its
functionalities as well as its appearance. Such improvements which include addition of artist
information, search element and having a slider, will ensure that the company’s information is well
captured and the quality of the website improved.
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