Muscular Dystrophy Website Analysis

Mda.orgs goal is to disseminate information about Muscular Dystrophy in an effort to help people and families struggling with it, raise awareness and money, and educate people on the realities of this disease. The website provides many portals to different aspects about the disease. For instance; when you first are brought to the page the first options you see in the upper dashboard are links to “About us,” “Neuromuscular Diseases,” “Services,” “Research,” “Get Involved,” “Blog,” and “Donate”. The website offers a lot of different information under these links and you are directed to it as soon as you click on them. The website is appealing to the viewer right away since the home page that are first brought to illustrates a colorful bright picture of a happy family.
Immediately you are intrigued about the website through the colors and photos on the home page.
The website’s setup is presented in a clear manner so it is user friendly. From the home page through the blogs option in the upper dashboard you can be linked to Strongly.mda.org. This site shares personal stories and blogs about people and fundraises for the cause. Along with raising money the site aims to educate people about Muscular Dystrophy. When you scroll down on the first page of the site there is a “what do we do” section and under that the options of “cure,” “care,” and “champion” are available links to different pages of the website that explain these elements in great detail with multiple links attached with further information. Overall the site provides many different resources to further people’s understanding about Muscular Dystrophy and it provides a page where people can donate as little or as much as they would like to the
cause.
The website mda.org is targeted towards people of all ages. The website aims to grasp the attention of anyone in hopes to raise awareness for Muscular Dystrophy. Different age groups, genders, races, and people of different socioeconomic classes are marketed to by this website. One way the website markets to all different people is through the diverse picture on the website. Each page of the website has a picture with people of all ages, and races. The website creates a picture that Muscular Dystrophy affects people in general and it does not consider a person's age or gender or race. Therefore the website provides pictures of people from all different backgrounds. Different cultures and socio-economic groups are considered in this website throughout the different pictures and blogs that are available. The website is easy to use with different graphics that help the user understand what is being discussed. For example on the home page where there are links to pages such as the “care” there is a stethoscope above it which allows readers of all different levels to understand that a medical subject is being addressed. Mda.org is user friendly and markets its site towards every unique person through its use of diverse pictures and graphics that allow the reader to understand the text better.