CARP Analysis

http://www.sixtiespress.co.uk/

Alignment

This website actually makes my brain hurt. This site looks like they read about the CARP format and thought the directions were to do the opposite. The ideas lack any sort of separation and seem to be on top of each other. The total LACK of alignment makes me so aware of how efficiently clean and consistent alignment works to focus the content on a webpage. The HeadLine design is aligned to the left which contrasts with the rest of the website, which uses a center alignment.This  choice is weaker then left or right because the formality of symmetrical alignment  looks amateurish. The web designer’s failure to define a visual or rhetorical focal point can be attributed to the horizontal and vertical placement of links. This arrangement throws of the alignment, because the links aligned with the center are not in sync with the links or either side.