Assignment #5A
Site Evaluation and Design
evaluations.html

 

 

   Objective: You will be able to evaluate websites and web pages (yours and others), and use these skills to design a high-quality website of your own.
 

The Steps

Slow down. Successful site design does not consist of firing up Dreamweaver, pasting in some cool images, and saving the page. A thoughtful site will have well organized information along with images that help the user understand what the site is about. The background image, if there is one, should not make it difficult to read the text.

There are two parts to this assignment. The first is to evaluate some websites that are already out there and the second part is to design your own site.

Part 1: Site evaluation
Create a new web page called evaluations.html. You should evaluate 5 sites. One should be of an educational institution (ending in .edu), one should be commercial (selling something and ending in .com), and the other three can be any sites you choose. For each site, answer the following quesions:
  1. Who will use this site?
  2. What information is on the main page?
  3. What links are on the main page?
  4. Are the buttons (clickable areas) clear?
  5. Are images distracting or useful?
  6. What are your overall impressions of the page?

 

Once you've completed evaluations.html, click here to go to
Part 2 of the assignment: Designing Your Site

The Assignment

1. Create evaluations.html, so that:

  • Evaluations.html contains evaluations of 5 different websites (1 educational, 1 commercial, 3 others).
  • Evaluations.html contains evaluations that answer the six questions above.
  • Evaluations.html contains links to each of the websites that are evaluated, and these links open in a new browser window.

 

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