Ming

 Checked out Yahoo Finance and Google Finance sites. Google's site is certainly simpler, with less text and images/charts thrown at you. Yet I found the Yahoo site to actually be more useful. One would want the extra, relevant information, given it's a finance site. The charts on Yahoo are small but shows the trend unlike Google's, which is a snap shot number.

 Looking around on the internet, careful placement and color consideration of images are extremely important for websites. Playing around in a test HTML site myself, I found it hard to use a background image that has bright and dark spots, since any text over it inevitably runs over light and dark areas, making it very hard to read. Thinking about this, texts either need to be outlined or inside their own text box to make it legible.

 First post. I like Google.com because of how simple the home page is, yet it's so useful and was what drew me to use the website early on. There has been more and more stuff added onto Google throughout the years, but they have managed to keep it fairly well organized, and I think without impeding the primary function that drove me to use the site in the first place, the search feature. All the other neat things are tucked into a sub-menu and are well organized, with the most useful things, such as email and maps, right there, and more experimental things like Google Cast hidden in deeper pages.