The Use of Alcohol-Based Skin Cleaner rather than the Traditional Surgical Hand Scrub

Lakeysha Byrd

Eng 111 0906FA

Sep 12 ,2006

A Better Site , A Greater Difference

Using the keywords Alcohol-Based Skin Cleaner or Traditional Surgical Hand Scrub ' in the credible Google search engine produced three resulting websites that contained information on this controversial issue . The tight specificity of the search provided articles that were directly related to the controversy , and thus there was no need for further searching . The three sites were surgprodmag .com infectioncontroltoday .com , and aorn .com . Of the three sites surgprodmag .com was the best when evaluated with

the criteria discussed in Chapter 14 . The following essay explains why

The URL name of surgprodmag .com is not very memorable at all , which is a tremendous setback from the start . However , the site has an overall attractiveness that is much finer than the other two . With flashing graphics , multiple colors , a repeating theme in all of its links , and massive amounts of information on each page , it is obvious that surgprodmag .com is by far the most visually-appealing Infectioncontroltoday .com , while having a more memorable URL name contains dull colors and almost no graphics . Aorn .com is colorful , and yet , there is so much text on every page and so few graphics , that it seems more like a book than a website , and so much text can be quite overwhelming to someone who is researching and desires a more concise and concrete article of reference

The purpose of all three sites is made abundantly clear on the introductory page . However , the purpose is the clearest on surgprodmag .com because the webpage designer places a subtext slogan defining the goal of the site right next to the attractive site logo The abbreviations in the URL which stand for `Surgical Products Magazine ' provide the user with a defined objective as well . On the aorn .com website , the main page merely contained two stories - one about a fifty-one-year-old nurse and the other about germs in the workplace The purpose and objectivity of the site is not evident anywhere within its pages . On the infectioncontroltoday .com website , there is an overabundance of links to other s and no mention of the site 's purpose

All three sites are updated and maintained regularly which is very important to those doing research on the various s they provide Each provides an enormous amount of information on a broad range of s . However , surgprodmag .com provides two search boxes creating at least the illusion that the knowledge on the site as well as its coverage of various s could be infinite

With the providence of several links and numerous search instruments on various s , convenient and user-friendly navigation is easy on surgprodmag .com . The site is well-organized information is easy to find and well-coordinated on specific pages with graphics and animated pictures . The very last page organizes the contact information for the site as well as the specialties of the different doctors who were responsible for the site 's phonetic content . This information , along with the...