My Digital Built Environment is www.ourhousega.org. When you first open up the site you see an array of warm colors like a sunset. There is a slide show showing what happens at Our House, and sponsors for them. There is a bar above the slideshow and it has 8 tabs and 3 of them with arrows under them showing that they want to put more emphasis on them. Starting with the about us tab. When the page loads you see the mission statement   “Our House breaks the chains of homelessness by providing quality early childhood education and comprehensive support services for families who are experiencing homelessness.” (ourhousega.org) At the bottom right there is an opportunity to tell you story, most likely about your ordeals with homelessness or how Our House has helped you.

Going back to the homepage there is a bar on the right side showing recent news for the site. Going back to the top of the page if we hover over the help us and get involved tab they are almost identical they both have an overview sub tab and they both talk about donating and volunteering. Seeing this it seems that they are really stressing the need for donations and volunteers. At the very top of the screen 1281 people have shared this site on Facebook and 68 people have tweeted about it. Scrolling to the very the bottom of the screen you see there is a place to sign up for newsletters and a direct link to connect you to their social media pages. There are many pictures of children on each tab we visit which is a way to appeal to our emotions for the homeless children, I believe that is to make us feel more obligated to donate. My overall feeling for the site is that there isn’t enough information about the site. It really just highlight the importance of donating and volunteering.