A Rhetorical Analysis Of Helping Hands Websites

Helping Hands, nonpolitical, nonprofit global organization targets children around the globe who do not have food, healthcare, clothing, and shelter. The website informs the audience by providing photos, background pictures, and brief paragraphs. Helping Hands has offered to help children in more than 200 countries.

The purpose of the Helping Hands website is to inform many individuals of how children around the world suffer. Many children around the world suffer, and are forced to live without the necessities of life. Helping hands purpose is to show that, and provide a solution. Although the purpose is known, the audience may not find the solution very clear, which can cause the audience to leave the website. The website is not effective

The website only has open a page, with not a variety of things. All options for engaging with the website, are very small, and hard to interact with. When an individual opens the website, a variety of options should be available. Helping Hands provides one page with a variety of links, videos, and pictures. The individual can scroll through, finding a brief paragraph, a slide show, a video, photo gallery, and the information to contact services. This is very ineffective, because the audience wants to see more, and do more to interact with the website itself. An audience wants to space, things spread out to process everything, but the website does not do that, instead has too much going on.

Every individual is attracted to colors, and the visual aspect of things. When opening the website, a variety of colors is present. This can be very affective in keeping the audience on the website. Although this is affective, the way helping hands presents colors is very overwhelming. An individual can get distracted and see too much going on. The individual may leave the website, not knowing where to start. Colors are very important, but too much color can be too eye-distracting and cause an individual to be drawn away from the

The individual is encouraged to analyze the logo. The logo is presented in the very top of the website. The website can use the logo as another way to get the audience’s attention. The audience is attracted by the bright color of the tree. This logo that is presented is affective. A logo is a way to portray a message without words. The individual can see the tree, and thing of a healthy planet, which in the end is what Helping Hands would like to do. Help the world.

Every website has good and bad qualities. The bad qualities are how the website is laid out. The website does not have anything that can be clicked on, or played with. The website is laid out into one page cramming all the things into one. The words presented in a very ineffective way. The words are very small, causing the audience to try too hard to read. The slide show presented is too fast. The photo gallery is very small, causing the audience to scroll over it. A map is also provided on the top of the website, but does not seem to tie in with the ideas presented. The audience is left confused, and