The text is light blue, which does not provide a good contrast against the darker blue background. Active links are white and underlined, which is better, but still not much of a contrast. Visited links do not change color, so you can’t tell where you’ve already been.
The spacing between headings and text is uneven.
Pages are set up with two columns, with the right-hand column used for pictures and/or navigational links, when there are some. Most of the time, however, once you scroll past the initial screen, you just see an ocean of blue on the right. Also, nowhere did I find any anchors that would bring you back to the top of the page. And because there are no anchors, when you click on a specific link, such as “pottery,” you are sent to the top of the Classes and Workshops page and then it’s your job to scroll way down to Pottery.
The following screen shot is actually quite useful in its blurriness, because you can really tell how very little stands out and how the space is not used well. Even the gutter on the left is not really sufficient, given the amount of open and usually unused space on the right.
Content was okay. It’s almost not that important on this site as you often just get pointed to an outside site. Glen Echo is a more of a host venue and has fewer of its own sponsored events. And things such as the carousel really just need times, as that is all visitors will be interested in.
Overall, I can usually find what I need, eventually, but I don’t find it a user-friendly site. If ever a site needed a site map (it doesn’t have one), this one does, as it seems to be quite a deep site, but you can’t tell until you start trying to find something and end up somewhere that isn’t on any navigation bar.