Group website classwork

Trevor McCoy, Max Schroeder, Sydney Wallace, Adam Perrez, and Thomas Smith

Personal Website

1. http://www.woodstock.com/ This website contains information pertaining to the Woodstock concert of 1969 as well as the Woodstock group.

2. The audiences of this website are mainly the younger generation and possibly the older generations that went to the concert. This appeals to the younger generation, because the format is very colorful. It almost looks like a picture book. In addition, there is not much writing, mainly pictures. However, it appeals to the older generation, because they were there.

3. The graphics are mainly pictures of the different concerts that took place. There is also a very simple image of a dove on a guitar. These pictures show the Woodstock message of peace through music. These graphics are designed to capture your attention and make you become interested in the Woodstock concert. The graphics add to the website by keeping the reader interested instead of taking away from the content. Some of the graphics stand alone, but most of them are directly related to the content pictured on the page. There are quite a few graphics on the website, but they are tastefully used to the point that they are interesting without being distracting. The audiences for the graphics are the older generations looking for nostalgia as well as the younger generation interested in the musical movement of 1969. The clues for this are the very old pictures of the concert itself along with the much newer pictures promoting the movement.

4. There are a great deal of clues about the credibility of the sites. Since the website is made by the actual Woodstock group it is very close to the original source. In fact, Woodstock supports other groups such as the WWF and Doctors Without Borders. The credibility of the website can be determined by different aspects including the merchandise. It is possible to conclude that the website is actually made by the Woodstock group by looking at the copyrighted merchandise that they sell and the official logo that is carried throughout. There is no list of sources on the website, mainly because the website is all about an event that the corporation created. The main reason that the website was created was to sell merchandise as well as promote the Woodstock message.

Professional Website

1.http://bethelwoodscenter.org/museum/festivalhistory.aspxThe site is for a museum that has a main exhibit of Woodstock. It has a lot of facts on the festival at Woodstock in 1969. In addition to that it has a performer and set list for all of the artists that were there.=
2.The audience is mostly young adults and people that attended Woodstock. The site is for a multimedia museum that appeals more towards young adults. The museum looks very modern, because it has things like a large HD theater, an outdoor terrace stage, an interactive multimedia exhibit, and much more. There is a bullet point list of much of the facts of the event. This makes it easier to read, because its not drawn out in long paragraphs. This appeals more to many young adults.
3.There are only a few graphics on the site. One of them being a picture of the museum, and the other is a picture of the event. This gives it a more academic feel because there isn't a ton of pictures, but there is a lot more text. The picture of the museum is designed to grab you attention so that you may click on it and learn more about the museum.
4.It is a reliable source because the site is from a Museum which contains a “.org”. This shows that it is a museum organization and its only agenda is to get you to visit the museum. The actual museum helps its credibility as well, because Woodstock is one of the main exhibits within the museum.

5. We learned that the community was not prepared for the number of people present for the Woodstock concert. The area had become an enormous traffic jam. In addition Jimi Hendrix played the highlight of the concert on Monday when only a small fraction of the crowd was left. There was a large difference in the number of pictures between the professional and the personal websites. We learned there is a lot of bias on websites, even if they don't appear to be so.

6. The main rhetorical difference between popular and professional sites is the way that the information is displayed. Popular websites display information in a way that is fun and interesting while professional sites are more focused on the facts.