Friday, 23 August 2013

All about labelling

Today I have focused my insight on labeling on a torrent sharing website called TorLock.






It is relatively new and I believe it was created due to the large number of current torrent sharing websites lacking the core principles that this site introduces. As part of the requirements, I have provided here a navigation system table, providing navigational labels and what labels they lead to.



Label
Destination’s heading label
Destination’s <TITLE> label
Main top-of-page


Torlock
Torlock
TorLock - The No Fakes Torrent Site
Movies
Movies
TorLock - Verified Movies
Television
Television
TorLock - Verified Television
Games
Games
TorLock - Verified Games
Music
Music
TorLock - Verified Music
Software
Software
TorLock - Verified Software
Anime
Anime
TorLock - Verified Anime
Ebooks
Ebooks
TorLock - Verified Ebooks
Body


Over 500 000 verified
Press Room
TorLock - 200K Verified
Join our forum
Torlock Central
Torlock Central
Login
Login
TorLock - Login Page
Upload
Upload a Torrent
TorLock - Upload a Torrent
“links”
“link”
“link” - Torrents - TorLock
Other top-of-page


Chat
Chat
TorLock - Torrent Chat
Forum
Torlock Central
Torlock Central
News
News
TorLock - Torrent News
FAQ
TorLock - FAQ
TorLock - FAQ
RSS
RSS Feeds
TorLock - RSS Feeds
Contact
Contact Us
TorLock - Contact Us

I chose this website because I thought it was a good example of labeling. From looking at this table I can see that it does label navigational links very well. Almost all of the pages navigated to from the home page, accurately label their headings and HTML Titles in relation to the content and consistent with the previous links. If I had to suggest improvements, I would say that the forum page wasn't as consistent as the rest of the site and it wasn't labelled as consistent either. Perhaps a 'Home' link could also be added to give everyone a link back to the home page in case someone doesn't realize that the 'Torlock' link is a home page link.

Competitor websites thepiratebay.sx and kickass.to both incorporate many of the same labels as Torlock. Torlock however appears to take the best of both worlds and displays different links for browsing categories but also contains easy to access links on popular searches. It's hard to put a finger on and exactly identify why I believe Torlock is the superior of the 3 in relation to its labels. I believe the graphical, colour scheme and location also plays a big role here.

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