There are many reasons why a website is the best way to view this material. The most obvious one is the ease of access. I think that ease of access to vast amounts of information is the main reason anyone uses the internet. I mean, all I have to do is boot up and type in a URL. Another reason why a website is the best way to view this information is because of the vast amount of knowledge stored in it. There are hundreds of types of cars out there and thousands of trims. This website compiles them in an easy to find way. All I have to do is type in the year, make, and model and I have all the information that I could ever hope to have on that vehicle, from accessories to color to resale value. It is all there. If this was in paper form, the book would be huge, definitely not as easy to navigate, and doesn’t exist.
There are a cornucopia of advantages this site has over books or a presentation. First, information on this site can be viewed over and over in any order you wish unlike a presentation. I control what or how long I look at something, whereas in a presentation the speaker decides. Also, this website is free. If there was a book form it would most likely be in multiple volumes and would cost money for each. Unless I did a massive amount of footwork and went to each dealership for brochures, there is no way it would be free. Also, this website is updateable. Models of cars change constantly, and I do not want to buy a new book each year or visit an impossible presentation. There is just no comparison between this website and other forms of the same information.
To translate the knowledge obtained on this website into print or presentation form is almost a laughable concept. If it were a show or such, there would have to be multiple episodes and they would have to run almost non-stop. If this website was a book, it would definitely have to be a series of extreme magnitude and a new one would have to be bought as often as one uses the restroom. My point is not that it could not be translated to a different form, rather it is that it would be futile, exhausting, and a waste of resource.
A lot would be lost in the process of transferring this website to either of the different forms. First, the ease of access to the information would be lost. One would have to sit through days of presentations or flip through countless pages in books to find information that is a click away. Also, some of the information itself would be lost simply because it is impossible to cover all of this information in a speech unless it is your life. If this site was transformed into another form, it would most definitely lose its ability to add new information easily as well. One would have to buy another book or watch a new video; the whole process is just tir
Saturday, September 6, 2008
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I definatly agree with you, websites are amazing because how easily accessible they are. The ease of being able to log on and read mail that would originally take 2 or more days to receive is extrodinary!
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