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Team Canada Women’s Gold Medal 2022 Olympics (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images). Retrieved from an article on  thehockeywriters.com       Over 3.5 million Americans watched Canada defeating the United States 3-2 to win women's hockey gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.  This is more viewers than any National Hockey League game televised in the U.S. this season. (Source:  theathletic.com )      Meanwhile, an average of 2.7 million Canadians watched the same game on any Canadian-based sports TV networks.  It had the highest viewership of all events in the Beijing Olympics.         These numbers show that women's hockey matters, even in the U.S. where hockey isn't the most watched sport.        Women's hockey has been growing Since it became an international competition in the 90s.  It became an Olympic event in 1998.  While Canada and the U.S. have always been dominant in this ...

    One website I like is Light and Love Home , a global Christian charity organization that cares for the poor in underdeveloped countries.  Its services include building orphanages and schools, education sponsorships, and programs to provide sustainable family income.        .    The website's homepage begins with a frozen pane that shows the organization's logo, a main menu with drop-down options with a mouse hover, and a "Donate" button.  Below it is a photo of a family's home with the organization's tagline.  It goes on to display the most recent fundraising program, followed by its services, with each a brief description of each service accompanied by a "Learn more" link and a related photo.  Below it are testimonies of beneficiaries and ways to get involved.       Many pages of this website contain photos and short paragraphs.  The vast amount of white spaces makes the website easy to read....

      Every  college or university's website is created uniquely to attract both perspective and current students.  Such a website informs current students about campus services and the school's news and events.  It also introduces perspective students to the school with virtual campus tours and online information session bookings reasons.  These features give them reasons beyond program curriculums or tuition cost to choose one school over another. Image from  purepng.com      Here are the website layout comparisons between the two colleges that I have attended:  Langara  and  Douglas .  They are two commonly-known public colleges in the Lower Mainland.  First are the features from each website, followed by my preference. Douglas College Link to COVID-19 information and updates on top row  Horizontal main menu with multiple columns of links appearing when hovering the mouse cursor Scrollable links with...