Useability

The web site's design is highly effective in achieving the user relationship it strives for. Links and buttons are clearly defined and allow easy navigation, and it is easy to see where to type information to perform a search. The site limits the amount of scrolling required on each individual page. This is a positive useability element as it prevents too much information being presented at once, which would turn the user away from the site.

Spatiality

The site is capable of performing a comprehensive search of a database electronically in moments. Obviously because it may have taken a user a much greater length of time to perform the search manually, this website represents a significant movement away from the "real-world" temporalities. According to the metaphor on the home page, through the power of communications the site reduces spatiality significantly through assisting the "connecting" of people who may live great distances away. This is an indirect change in spatiality at best however. The web site itself has no spatiality; it is not "set" anywhere. As the user then automatically assumes this means the site is limited spatially to the computer they are in front of, the site fails to "take them" anywhere. Therefore, although metaphorically, the White Pages online is capable of making great reductions to space, physically and visually, it isn't.

Overall

The White Pages Online is effective in creating an environment its target users would find comfortable to work in through the use of graphics colours and text. A heavily interactive site, it succeeds in performing its set function as a hypertext to relay desired information to the user. Simply, for its intentions, the site is a success.